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

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Taylor & Francis, 2002 - Drama - 233 pages
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.

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Contents

FACTS AND PROBLEMS
3
THE INTEGRATION PATTERN
22
SYMBOLISM
58
TIME AND ETERNITY
69
THE EXPANSION
104
CONCLUSION
137
PRELIMINARY REMARKS
145
THE POETICAL ESSAYS
179
SHAKESPEARES POEM
193
INDEX A SHAKESPEARIAN WORKS
227
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K.G. Wilson Knight Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the University of Leeds Formerly Chancellors' Professor of English at Trinity College, Toronto