G. Wilson Knight
Personal Information
Born January 1, 1897
Died January 1, 1985 (88 years old)
London Borough of Sutton
Also known as: G. Wilson (George Wilson) 18 Knight, George Wilson B. 1897 Knight
33 books
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22 readers
Description
English literary critic and academic, known particularly for his interpretation of mythic content in literature, and The Wheel of Fire, a collection of essays on Shakespeare's plays.
Books
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Hamlet and Related Readings
Bharati Mukherjee, Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, G. Wilson Knight, Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Tom Stoppard
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Principles of Shakespearian production with especial reference to the tragedies
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Gold dust
James Willard Schultz, Adrien Sylvain, G. Wilson Knight, Mary Charlotte Yonge, Geraldine McCaughrean
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The Christian renaissance
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The author extends his method of poetic interpretation, hitherto confined to Shakespearian studies, into a wider realm of poetic and religious symbolism, relating the work of Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe and other poets to the Bible and the dogmas of Christianity. The result is probably the first satisfying synthesis as yet attempted of the symbolism of Renaissance poetry and Christianity; a more necessary, because a more natural and profitable synthesis than that of science and religion.