- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: What Was a Scholar?
- 1. Before Bentley: Restoration Cambridge
- 2. London in the 1680s: Bentley Begins
- 3. Bentley in Oxford: The New and the Strange
- 4. Into the Drawing Room: The Public Intellectual
- 5. Rewriting Horace: The Force of Reason and the Force of Habit
- 6. The Measure of All Things: Vi commodavi
- 7. Bentley’s New Testament: The Return of the Repressed
- 8. Interlopers and Interpolators: Manilius and Paradise Lost
- Conclusion: Dominating Antiquity
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Richard Bentley
Poetry and Enlightenment
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Publication Date: 04/01/2011