Author:Richard Payne Knight

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Richard Payne Knight
(1750–1824)

English classical scholar and connoisseur

Richard Payne Knight

Works[edit]

  • An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus lately existing in Isernia; to which is added a Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its Connexion with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients (1786)
  • An Analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet (1791)
  • The Landscape: a Didactic Poem in three Books (1794) (external scan)
  • The Progress of Civil Society (1796)
  • An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (1805)
  • Carmina Homerica, Ilias et Odyssea (1808)
  • Specimens of Antient Sculpture selected from several Collections in Great Britain (1809)
  • An Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology (1818)

Works about Knight[edit]

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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