G. Wilson Knight's "The Mutual Flame" is an important work offering literary insights. - Author: G. Wilson Knight - Title: The Mutual Flame Thank you for viewing. The Mutual Flame On the Love Poems of Shakespeare and The Phoenix and the Turtle By G. Wilson Knight E Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Leeds Formerly Professor of English Literature, Trinity College, Toronto The happiest companionship on our earth foreshadows a feast of salvation, and by its power stirs the desire to transcend, to pass beyond humanity, to a superhuman, and ultimate, perfection. However it may be found, or strangely imagined, it answers to each need, and instinctively leads him to his ultimate goal. The Testament of Beauty, Vol. IV, 1408 The Phoenix and the Turtle In the mutual flame from hence did fly. The Phoenix and the Turtle