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Jan 15, 2007 · THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS AND OTHER SHORT PIECES. by JONATHAN SWIFT. CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited: london, paris, new york & melbourne. 1886. INTRODUCTION. Jonathan Swift was born in 1667, on the 30th of November.
- The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift
It addresses the contemporary debate over the merits of...
- The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift's satire describes a battle fought between ancient and modern books in the King's Library in Saint James' Palace.
Aug 1, 1996 · It addresses the contemporary debate over the merits of ancient versus modern authors, presenting it through an imaginative lens that pits the two factions against each other in a literal battle of books.
"The Battle of the Books" is the name of a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy.
2 days ago · Aesop sums up the dispute: the spider is like the moderns who spin their scholastic lore out of their own entrails; the bee is like the ancients who go to nature for their honey. Aesop's commentary rouses the books to fury, and they join battle.
Listen to the satirical tale of a literary battle between ancient and modern authors in the King's Library. The audio book is read by Elijah Fisher and includes the original text and notes.
At length, there appearing no end of the quarrel, our author tells us that the BOOKS in St. James's Library, looking upon themselves as parties principally concerned, took up the controversy, and came to a decisive battle; but the manuscript, by the injury of fortune or weather, being in several places imperfect, we cannot learn to which side ...
