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The battle of the books : history and literature in the Augustan Age

"Joseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and excited the English world of letters from 1690 until the 1730s was, Levine shows, an installment in the long-standing debate about the relationship of classical learning to modern life."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 1991
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., 1991
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 428 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
9780801425370, 9780801481994, 0801425379, 0801481996
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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