Bentley, Richard, scholar and philologist, born in Yorkshire; from the first devoted to ancient, especially classical, learning; 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 (1662‒1742).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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