the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Richard Payne Knight : An Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of Taste

'I have just begun to read Mr Knight's Book, which you were very kind in sending.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

Richard Payne Knight : Progress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, The

'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation from Richard Payne Knight's The Progress of Civil Society.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      

Richard Payne Knight : The Landscape: A Didactic Poem in Three Books

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 27 July 1800: 'In the morning, I read Mr. Knight's Landscape.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

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