The Battle of the Booksby Jonathan Swift | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
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| Pages: | 56 |
| Year of Publication: | 1704 |
| Date Read: | 02/12/2001 |
| Notes: | A deceptively simple mock-heroic account of a battle among the books reposing in the King's Library at St. James's Palace. The battle itself is a satirical allegory on an intellectual debate that had been raging in England since 1692, sometimes called the "Battle of the Ancients and the Moderns." In theory, this debate concerned the relative value of the intellectual accomplishments of antiquity, as compared to the "progress" that had been made in many fields of human knowledge since the Renaissance. |
| My Rating: | 5 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2001-02-13 09:59:59
