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Jousting for the Honour of Greece and "a certain Miss Phrosyne": Baron Byron and Gally Knight Clash over Costume, Correctness, and a Princess

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Modern Language Review, Volume: 103, Issue: 2, Pages: 330 - 349

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DOI (Published version): 10.2307/20467776

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This article attempts to rescue Henry Gally Knight (1786-1846), architectural writer and antiquary, from the footnotes of literary history. Few Romantic writers of Oriental verse tales travelled to the East, and the work of this friend of Walter Scott and William Wilberforce, patron of Turner, and c...

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ISSN: 0026-7937
Published: MLR 2008
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