Bentley’s classicism, Paradise Lost, and the Schema Horatianum.
Bentley’s commentary on Milton’s Paradise Lost is an extraordinary work, which has attracted a wide range of verdicts from the critical community, mostly negative. Recent critics have tended to be more lenient towards Bentley than his contemporaries were, and it has been suggested that it was precis...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 354 - 366 |
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Sep2010
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