Background
He was born and went to school in Grantham.
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Selected Essays in Criticism
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This is a selection of essays by one of the most distinguished of modern literary critics, L. C. Knights, published as a companion volume to the selection of Professor Knights' Shakespearean essays, which appeared in 1979. The essays span almost four decades of critical work on authors as diverse as Marlowe, George Herbert, Clarendon and Henry James. At the centre of each essay is an attempt to elicit some essential quality in the author, or authors, discussed. Although each can be read as an isolated critical essay, the different pieces are linked by a pervasive interest in the conditions, social or personal, out of which particular works emerged, and in the way in which major works of the imagination are renewed as they are re-interpreted in successive generations. Throughout, the underlying assumption is that literary criticism needs to be 'pure' - the result of direct exposure to particular works - but that it cannot remain purely literary, if only because the meaning of literature includes its effects on the lives and conduct of individual human beings.
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Lionel Knights
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Education
He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read History and English, graduating in 1928.
Career
His essay How many children had Lady Macbeth? (1933) is a classic of modern criticism. He became King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge in 1965. He was a co-editor of Scrutiny, the literary journal of F. R. Leavis"s school, from May 15, 1932 to 1953 when it ceased publication.
He was an English lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1933, then Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield in 1947 and the Winterstoke Professor of English at University of Bristol in 1953.
From 1965-1973, he was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge.
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Selected Essays in Criticism
(This is a selection of essays by one of the most distingu...)
- Further explorations,
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Selected Essays in Criticism
