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Richard Bentley : Poetry and Enlightenment.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061002
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Richard BentleyDDC classification:
  • 880.9
LOC classification:
  • PA85
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: What Was a Scholar? -- Chapter 1. Before Bentley: Restoration Cambridge -- Chapter 2. London in the 1680s: Bentley Begins -- Chapter 3. Bentley in Oxford: The New and the Strange -- Chapter 4. Into the Drawing Room: The Public Intellectual -- Chapter 5. Rewriting Horace: The Force of Reason and the Force of Habit -- Chapter 6. The Mea sure of All Things: Vi commodavi -- Chapter 7. Bentley's New Testament: The Return of the Repressed -- Chapter 8. Interlopers and Interpolators: Manilius and Paradise Lost -- Conclusion: Dominating Antiquity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: What Was a Scholar? -- Chapter 1. Before Bentley: Restoration Cambridge -- Chapter 2. London in the 1680s: Bentley Begins -- Chapter 3. Bentley in Oxford: The New and the Strange -- Chapter 4. Into the Drawing Room: The Public Intellectual -- Chapter 5. Rewriting Horace: The Force of Reason and the Force of Habit -- Chapter 6. The Mea sure of All Things: Vi commodavi -- Chapter 7. Bentley's New Testament: The Return of the Repressed -- Chapter 8. Interlopers and Interpolators: Manilius and Paradise Lost -- Conclusion: Dominating Antiquity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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.

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