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George Richard Wilson Knight — was an outstandingly distinguished scholar and literary critic, who wrote on subjects as diverse as Shakespeare, Byron, Ibsen and Nietzsche. After graduating from the Hall, his first academic post was at Trinity College, Toronto , where he met, befriended and influenced the young Northrop Frye. Here, as a colleague of Kenneth Muir also an Aularian he taught a celebrated two-year course on drama, in which Shakespeare was approached as part of world drama stretching from Aeschylus to Ibsen.

Eccentric and powerfully original, Knight was fascinated above all by mythical patterns and meanings in literature. His book The Wheel of Fire , Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy is one of the most famous and influential in the field. Knight was not only a great critic; he was also an actor, a theatrical director, and a charismatic lecturer, who inspired dramatic activity in the university at Leeds with great energy until his retirement in The Morality of Art , a collection in his honour, was published in It contains essays by such illustrious writers as Geoffrey Hill, L.

Knights, Kenneth Muir and Norman Jeffares. Wilson Knight.