Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment
Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment
English | April 1, 2011 | ISBN: 0674058712| 335 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | April 1, 2011 | ISBN: 0674058712| 335 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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 most notable―and notorious―scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue” affords a fascinating portrait of Bentley and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion.