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George Richard Wilson Knight was born in 1897 and educated at Dean Close School before attending Dulwich College. He later studied English literature at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with second-class honours.
G. Wilson Knight held posts at Trinity College Toronto starting in 1931 and taught at Stowe School from 1941 to 1946. He served as Reader in English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1946 until his retirement in 1962.
G. Wilson Knight directed Hamlet at the Rudolf Steiner Theatre in London on the 1st of January 1935 and produced This Sceptred Isle at Westminster Theatre London in 1941. He also staged Agamemnon by Aeschylus in 1946 and Racine's Athalie in 1947 while at Leeds.
George Richard Wilson Knight published The Wheel of Fire in 1930 and Myth and Miracle in 1929 to explore Shakespearean mythic patterns. His bibliography includes Hiroshima, on Prophecy and the Sun-bomb from 1946 and The Saturnian Quest about John Cowper Powys from 1964.
G. Wilson Knight served as vice-president for the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain and let these beliefs shape his approach to literary criticism. His spiritual views informed his understanding of poetic wisdom and divine inspiration in dramatic works throughout his career.