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Beyond Shakespeare
van Doren, Mark | July 19, 1933 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Christian Renaissance: With Interpretations of Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe, and a Note on T.S. Eliot," by G. Wilson Knight. Knight has plunged through the sea of William Shakespeare's imagery in four volumes of his books, but in his new book, he goes beyond Shakespeare. He goes headlong on, in short, to the only poem which is perfect, the New Testament. Knight now makes it plain that he is concerned not so much with poetry as with life, to which he thinks it gives the key. He has been interested less in the symbols of Shakespeare than in the truth to which he is able to make them refer.

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CHRISTIAN Renaissance: With Interpretations of Dante, Shakespeare & Goethe & a Note on T.S. Eliot, The (Book); KNIGHT, G. Wilson; LITERATURE; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; POETRY; FIGURES of speech
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