The Mutual Flame: On Shakespeare's Sonnets and The Phonenix and the Turtle

by G. Wilson Knight

Overview

First Published in 2002. This is a collection of essays and commentary on some of Shakespeare’s Sonnets looking at the areas of symbolism, time and eternity, integration and their expansion and moves onto the metaphysical poem of the Phoenix and the Turtle and considers if it has the same love as celebrated in the Sonnets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415290746
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/29/2002
Series:	G. Wilson Knight: Collected Works , #5
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

K.G. Wilson Knight Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the University of Leeds Formerly Chancellors’ Professor of English at Trinity College, Toronto

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Sonnets; Chapter 1 Facts and Problems; Chapter 2 The Integration Pattern; Chapter 3 Symbolism; Chapter 4 Time and Eternity; Chapter 5 The Expansion; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Part 2 Phoenix and Turtle; Chapter 7 Preliminary Remarks; Chapter 8 Love’s Martyr; Chapter 9 The Poetical Essays; Chapter 10 Shakespeare’s Poem; Chapter 11 Other Poets;