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By G. Wilson Knight

Professor Wilson Knight is widely known for his interpretative paintings on Shakespeare, Byron and different classics. He has additionally every now and then released articles on glossy literature. those are right here accumulated, with the addition of recent material.

Poets who've had little analytic consciousness in recent times akin to Tennyson, Masefield and Brooke, are proven, within the demeanour to which we've grown accustomed in Wilson Knight's reviews, to carry a size of that means hitherto overlooked or misunderstood. Homage is paid to John Cowper Powys as one of many most suitable seers of our, or any, age. A entire overview of the paintings of Francis Berry claims to set up him as our ultimate residing poet.

Professor Knight's new quantity makes an uncompromising problem. He urges, and is going some distance to turn out, that smooth literary feedback has didn't make touch with the richer meanings of up to date literature. He stresses the relation among such acclaimed poets as Yeats and Eliot and the spiritualistic routine of this day, and argues that powers to which our ecclesiastical and educational traditions were blind are crying for attractiveness, not just via our best poets but additionally in pop song. Professor Knight regards youth-revolts as indicators of a fit dissatisfaction with an irreligious and directionless tradition, and believes that our desire lies within the missed powers urgent for recognition.

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23 5 below). Modern science has affinities with 'magic'. Science has taken over the magician's responsibilities so far as external nature is concerned, but where the human mind and personality are concerned we remain baffled; here science may be of less use than magic. In The Integration ofthe Personality (translated by Stanley M. Dell, London 1 940), Carl G. Jung draws heavily on medieval alchemy. It was more than superstition or fraud: in it 'we are called upon to 1 Translated into English in 1 89 5 ; revised 1 908; reprinted 1 966.

It would be like consulting the Space-Time Con­ tinuum in measuring a cricket pitch. It is possible that our nearest approach to the truth of immortality would have to be stated in a paradoxical form; and possibly those who positively support and those who deny the theory of personal survival after death are both wide of 1 In three lectures, 'Vergil's Conscious Art', given at King's College, Newcastle­ upon-Tyne in 1960, my brother W. F. Jackson Knight investigated the interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in Vergil's poetry.

These, since the ethical judgement is relaxed, and probably with a vital pleasure in its very relaxation, must be distinguished from the higher 'imagination' which, as Coleridge tells us, includes elements of judgement and therefore ethic; but they are more than meaningless fancies. Being sexually impelled or accompanied they go to, or rather come from, the roots of the psyche. They are as the raw, but no more than 'raw', material of art; and I suggest that their acceptance on this, seemingly crude, level, may be a prerequisite to any rich poetic understanding.

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