Richard Bentley

01 January 1662 - 01 January 1742

Standard Name: Bentley, Richard,, 1662 - 1742

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By late 1697

John Dryden published by subscription his verse translation of Virgil 's Works; it was the first time a literary work by a living author had been published by this means.

Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

By 27 January 1732

The great classical scholar Richard Bentley published his notorious edition of Milton 's Paradise Lost.

Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.

2 (1732): 571

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