Paul Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English at Yale University, a specialist in British Romantic poetry.^[1]

He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Major publications

• Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are Yale University, 2008
• The Poet's Calling in the English Ode Yale University Press, 1980
  • Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society in America.
  • Reviews, in British Journal of Aesthetics 1981 21(2):178-180;
• The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory Yale University Press, 1984,
• William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice Routledge, 1990
• A Defense of Poetry: Essays on the Occasion of Writing Stanford Univ Press, 1996
  • Review: by Kolb, Jack in Philosophy and Literature - Volume 20, Number 2, October 1996, pp. 522–524
• (edited), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Bedford-St. Martins, 1999
• "Ezra Stiles's Idea of a University" Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 4–8

At Yale, he was master of Ezra Stiles College from 1995 to 2002.