Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment
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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 into the drawing rooms of polite society. Kristine Haugen's highly engaging biography of a man whom Rhodri Lewis characterized as "perhaps the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674058712
ISBN13:9780674058712
Release Date:April 2011
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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