William Angus Knight was a British writer, born at Mordington

Mordington

Mordington is an agricultural parish in the extreme south-east of Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders region. It is five miles from Berwick-upon-Tweed and borders Northumberland to the east, and south , Foulden to the west, and Lamberton to the north. The parish is bisected by the A6105 Berwick to...

, Scotland

Scotland

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, and educated at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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. From 1876 to 1902 he was professor

Professor

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 of moral philosophy in the University of St. Andrews

University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...

. In the field of philosophy his work, editorial and other, includes his collection of Philosophical Classics for English Readers (15 volumes, 1880–90), some of which he wrote. Although he wrote numerous publications, he is probably best known for his works on Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....

. His edition of Wordsworth's Works and Life (1881–89) is contained in 11 volumes. He presented to the trustee

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s of Dove Cottage

Dove Cottage

Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking"...

, Grasmere, the poet's former home, all the editions of Wordsworths poems which he possessed.

Works

• Hume
  David Hume
  David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...
  
  (1886)
• Essays in Philosophy, Old and New (1890)
• The Philosophy of the Beautiful (two volumes, 1891–93)
• The Christian Ethic (1894)
• Aspects of Theism
  Theism
  Theism, in the broadest sense, is the belief that at least one deity exists.In a more specific sense, theism refers to a doctrine concerning the nature of a monotheistic God and God's relationship to the universe....
  
  (1894)
• The Transactions of the Wordsworth Society (1880–86)
• Selections from Wordsworth (1889)
• Wordsworthiana (1889)
• Through the Wordsworth Country (1892)
• Wordsworth's Prose (1893)
• The English Lake District, as Interpreted in the Poems of Wordsworth (1878–91)
• The POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1896)
• The Works of William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth (twelve volumes, 1896–97)
• Dove Cottage from 1800 to 1900 (1900)
• Lord Monboddo
  James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
  James Burnett, Lord Monboddo was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics . In 1767 he became a judge in the Court of Session. As such, Burnett adopted an honorary title based on his...
  
   and Some of his Contemporaries (1900)
• Inter Amicos (1901)
• Pro Patria et Regina (1901)
• Retrospects (1903)
• The Poets on Christmas
  Christmas
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  (1906)
• Things New and Old (1909)
• The Golden Wisdom of the Apocrypha
  Apocrypha
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  (1910)
• The Glamour of Oxford
  University of Oxford
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  (1911)
• The Browning Centenary (1912)
• An Eastern Anthology
  Anthology
  An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
  
  (1912)
• Coleridge
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
  
  and Wordsworth in the West Country: Their Friendship, Work, and Surroundings (1914)

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