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Richard Bentley 1662-1742, English critic and philologist. Generally considered the greatest of English classical scholars, he was largely responsible for raising standards of textual criticism in the work of his many followers. His Dissertation upon The Epistles of Phalaris (1699), an exposure of a 14th cent. forgery, was his most celebrated work. He was pilloried by Jonathan Swift in the Battle of the Books.

Bibliography: See biography by A. Fox (1954); studies by R. J. White (1968) and R. F. Jones (1961).

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Bentley, Richard (1708–82), son of R. Bentley (above), is remembered as the friend of Horace Walpole and Gray, and made a considerable contribution to the Gothic fantasy of Strawberry Hill. He also illustrated Gray's poems in 1753 with designs described by K. Clark as ‘the most graceful monument to Gothic Rococo’ (The Gothic Revival, 1928). Walpole quarrelled with him in 1761, and Bentley struggled on in London as a playwright and pamphleteer. (See also Chute.)

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