An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste

Richard Payne Knight

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Richard Payne Knight

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781107360426
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360426

Subjects:: Literature, Art: General Interest, Art, English Literature 1700-1830, Architecture, Western Art
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

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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 authority on matters of taste. Here he moves away from the ideas of Price and Burke, instead exploring the role of associations in the expression of aesthetic judgement. Knight's Analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet (1791) and Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology (1818) are also reissued in this series.

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Frontmatter
pp i-i

Colophon
pp ii-ii

Contents
pp iii-xxii

ERRATA
pp xxiii-xxiv

INTRODUCTION, containing a Sceptical View of the Subject
pp 1-19

PART I - OF SENSATION

CHAP. I - OF THE SENSE OF TASTE
pp 20-25

CHAP. II - OF SMELL
pp 26-30

CHAP. III - OF TOUCH
pp 31-43

CHAP. IV - OF HEARING
pp 44-57

CHAP. V - OF SIGHT
pp 58-93

PART II - OF THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS

CHAP. I - OF KNOWLEDGE OR IMPROVED PERCEPTION
pp 94-131

CHAP. II - OF IMAGINATION
pp 132-255

CHAP. III - OF JUDGMENT
pp 256-312

PART III - OF THE PASSIONS

CHAP. I - OF THE SUBLIME AND PATHETIC
pp 313-407

CHAP. II - OF THE RIDICULOUS
pp 408-424

CHAP. III - OF NOVELTY
pp 425-471

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