Richard Bentley

Richard Bentley (1662-1742) was a British scholar and philologist, born in Yorkshire. From the first, he was devoted to ancient, especially classical, learning. He rose to eminence as an authority on literary criticism, his "Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris," which he proved to be a forgery, commending him to the regard and esteem of all the scholars of Europe, a work which may be said to have inaugurated a new era in literary historical criticism.

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