The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift

The Battle of the Books

Jonathan Swift

112 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction short stories slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns", who claimed that contemporary lear...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...