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Richard Payne Knight
(1751-1824)

NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824
NRA:    Knight Richard Payne (1750-1824) Numismatist Antiquary MP
DNB:    Knight, Richard Payne (1751-1824), art collector and writer
LBT ID: RiKnigh1824    VIAF ID: 14940632    LOC ID: n82067521
B/BAP:   1751-02-11
DIED:   1824-04-23
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
MP and writer on taste; in 1786 he published An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus for the Society of Dilettanti; he was author of The Landscape: a Didactic Poem (1794), An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (1805) and other works.
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An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus: lately existing at Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples: in two Letters, one from Sir William Hamilton, K.B. His Majesty's Minister at the Court of Naples, to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. President of the Royal Society, and the other from a Person residing at Isernia: to which is added, A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its connexion with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients.
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An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste.
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Carmina Homerica: a rapsodorum interpolation.
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“The Oxford Edition of Strabo” in Edinburgh Review.
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The Progress of Civil Society. A Didactic Poem: in Six Books.
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The Landscape, a Didactic Poem. In Three Books. Addressed to Uvedale Price, Esq.
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