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Richard Bentley : poetry and enlightenment /

What made the classical scholar Richard Bentley deserve to be so viciously skewered by two of the literary giants of his day--Jonathan Swift in the Battle of the Books and Alexander Pope in the Dunciad? The answer: he had the temerity to bring classical study out of the scholar's closet and int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haugen, Kristine Louise, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : 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
  • Conclusion : dominating antiquity.