Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment

(Harvard University Press)   This biography explores the classical scholar Richard Bentley, who brought classical study out of the scholar’s closet and into the drawing rooms of polite society. Bentley revealed to polite readers the doings of professional scholars and induced them to pay attention to classical study. At the same time, Bentley adapted his own publications to the deficiencies of non-expert readers. Haugen is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the California Institute of Technology.