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Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment
by Kristine Louise Haugen.
Harvard, 333 pp., £29.95, April 2011,978 0 674 05871 2 Show More
by Kristine Louise Haugen.
Harvard, 333 pp., £29.95, April 2011,
“... it was surely unthinkable that the master of Trinity could have pulled the trigger. Or was it? Thomas Gooch, the Tory master of Caius, had in his capacity as vice-chancellor tried to strip Bentley of his degrees. Among all this brouhaha Bentley managed to establish a reputation as the most learned classical scholar in England. Early in his career, after a ... ”