Richard Bentley [electronic resource] : poetry and enlightenment / Kristine Louise Haugen.
Haugen, Kristine Louise, 1973-
2011
PA85.B4 H38 2011eb
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Title Richard Bentley [electronic resource] : poetry and enlightenment / Kristine Louise Haugen.
Author Haugen, Kristine Louise, 1973-
ISBN 9780674061002 electronic book
0674058712
9780674058712
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (333 p.) : ill.
Call Number PA85.B4 H38 2011eb
Summary What warranted the skewering of Richard Bentley (whom Rhodri Lewis called perhaps the most notable-and notorious-scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue) by two of the literary giants of his day? Kristine Haugen offers a fascinating portrait of Europe's most infamous classical scholar and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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What was a scholar?
Before Bentley: restoration Cambridge
London in the 1680s: Bentley begins
Bentley in Oxford: the new and the strange
Into the drawing room: the public intellectual
Rewriting Horace: the force of reason and the force of habit
The measure of all things: Vi commodavi
Bentley's New Testament: the return of the repressed
Interlopers and interpolators: Manilius and Paradise lost
Dominating antiquity.

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