1697 written, 1704 published
Jonathan Swift
The Battle of the Books
C
A companion piece to A Tale of a Tub, which in fact has digressions on this "Ancients vs. Moderns" literary argument. It may be because I've only read Dryden and Aphra Behn of the "moderns," but much of the satire falls flat three centuries later. I kept flashing back to that Merrie Melodies cartoon Have You Got Any Castles?, where a fight breaks out among book characters. (It's the one with the House of Seven Clark Gables.)
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