This book covers many important events for those studying censorship conflicts.

1. Wotton vs. Temple -- 2. Bentley vs. Christ Church -- 3. Stroke and Counterstroke -- 4. The Querelle -- 5. Ancient Greece and Modern Scholarship -- 6. Pope's Iliad -- 7. Pope and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns -- 8. Bentley's Milton -- 9. History and Theory -- 10. Ancients -- 11. Moderns -- 12. Ancients and Moderns.

Reproduction of the original: A Battle of the Books by Gail Hamilton

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, prose writer and poet, who has found his calling as a cleric of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. “The Battle of the Books” is the name of a short satire story published as introduction to his “A Tale of a Tub.” It depicts a battle between books in the King’s Library as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy.

The present book 'The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces' is a collection of short stories written by the noted writer Jonathan Swift. The first story in this collection - The Battle of the Books, is a humorous story, a satire portraying a literal battle between books in the St. James library.

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