"An inveterate notebook keeper, Northrop Frye continually jotted down his ideas and thoughts as he worked through the complex schemes of his criticism. These are the notebooks that he kept while writing his two final books, Words with Power and The Double Vision. They provide a record of what he was reading and thinking as he struggled with the implications of those projects. In a sense they are the workshops out of which the books were constructed."--BOOK JACKET.