Richard Bentley : poetry and enlightenment /
Haugen, Kristine Louise,1973-
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742.
Classicists
Learning and scholarship
Civilization, Classical
Criticism, Textual