Richard Payne Knight

Standard Name: Knight, Richard Payne

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1786: Richard Payne Knight caused an outcry with...

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1786

Richard Payne Knight caused an outcry with his deliberately provocative Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, privately printed but strategically circulated.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.
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By November 1805: Richard Payne Knight published his influential...

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By November 1805

Richard Payne Knight published his influential Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste; that month it had the lead review in the Critical.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 6 (1805): 225-37
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1806: The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues...

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1806

The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues removed from the Parthenon in Athens by Lord Elgin , were exhibited for the first time in England.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
131-2

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