 Frye readily acknowledged the debt he owed to Vico in developing his literary theory, describing him as "the first modern thinker to understand that all major verbal structures have descended historically from poetic and mythological ones" ("Words with Power" xii).However, it was Blake, Frye's "Virgilian guide" (Stingle 1), who first awakened Frye to the "mythological frame of our culture" (Cotrupi 14).In fact, Frye claims that his "second book ["Anatomy"] was contained in embryo in the first ["Fearful Symmetry"]" ("Stubborn Structure" 160).