Classical scholar, art collector and connoisseur Richard Payne Knight (1751 1824) took a keen interest in aesthetics and was a key figure in the debate on the picturesque. Of independent means, he journeyed across Europe, often in the company of artists. His home, Downton Castle in Herefordshire, set the fashion for crenellations. He sat in Parliament from 1780 to 1806, but beauty interested him more than politics. Following important works on aesthetics by such writers as Edmund Burke and Uvedale Price, Knight published his most successful work in 1805, cementing his reputation as an...
Classical scholar, art collector and connoisseur Richard Payne Knight (1751 1824) took a keen interest in aesthetics and was a key figure in the debat...
Originally published in 1791, this work by classical scholar and connoisseur Richard Payne Knight (1751 1824) attempts to reconstruct the original pronunciation of ancient Greek. Emphasising the importance of knowing what the various ancient dialects sounded like in order to better appreciate surviving works of ancient literature, Knight engages in textual criticism of certain notable writings, including the poetry of Homer and Hesiod and the plays of Sophocles. Representing a learned contribution to classical philology, the essay also goes some way towards analysing the ways in which Greek...
Originally published in 1791, this work by classical scholar and connoisseur Richard Payne Knight (1751 1824) attempts to reconstruct the original pro...
