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G. Wilson Knight

1897 - 1985

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.

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  • Cover of: Hiroshima: on prophecy and the sun-bomb

    First published in 1946 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1984 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The startlit dome: studies in the poetry of vision; with and introd.

    First published in 1964 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1936 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1961 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 2002 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1959 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1973 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1954 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: A conversation with David Gerard, (7 April, 1976, at Lambeth).

    First published in 1976 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Shakespeare and religion: essays of forty years.

    First published in 1967 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1978 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1905 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The mutual flame: on Shakespeare's "Sonnets" and "The phoenix and the turtle".

    First published in 1955 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1968 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1934 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1990 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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Subjects
History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, English literature, Religion, Christianity and literature, English poetry, History, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretation, Religion in literature, English Christian drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Knowledge, Tragedies, Drama, Dramatic production, Literature, Religion and ethics, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, religion and ethics, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, tragedies, 19th century, Addresses, essays, lectures, Appreciation, Characters, Christianity in literature
Places
England, Great Britain, Peru, Rome
People
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), George Gordon Byron Byron Baron (1788-1824), Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), G. Wilson Knight (1897-1985), George Wilson Knight (1897-), H. Coombes, Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), James Joyce (1882-1941), Jesus Christ, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), John Ford (b. ca 1586), John Keats (1795-1821), John Milton (1608-1674), Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Shakespeare, Theodore Francis Powys (1875-1953), Virgil, W. F. Jackson Knight (1895-1964)
Time
19th century, 16th century, 17th century, 20th century, 1800-, 1800-1950, 18th century, Conquest, 1522-1548

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  • G. Wilson (George Wilson) 18 Knight
  • George Wilson B. 1897 Knight
  • George Richard Wilson Knight
  • G wilson knight
  • G Wilson Knight
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