Donald Sidney-Fryer

Donald Sidney-Fryer (born September 8, 1934, in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American poet, critic, literary historian, ballet historian, and performer in the tradition of California Romantics, influenced by mentors Edmund Spenser and Clark Ashton Smith. He specializes in medieval romance and epic poetry, continuing the line from Ambrose Bierce, George Sterling, and Clark Ashton Smith. In 2018, he self-published a massive history of Romantic Ballet and biography of composer Cesare Pugni.