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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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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.