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Richard Bentley

Poetry and Enlightenment

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ISBN 9780674058712

Publication Date: 04/01/2011

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344 pages

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  • 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

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