The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces Jonathan Swift

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1484848284
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1484848289
• Author(s): Jonathan Swift

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745), was born in Dublin after his father´s death. He was son of Jonathan Swift by Abigail of Leicester, and grandson of Thomas Swift, the royalist vicar of Goodrich, descended from a Yorkshire family. Jonathan was educated at Kilkenny Grammar School and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was censured for offences against discipline, obtaining his degree only by “special grace”. He was admitted in 1689 to the household of Sir W. Temple, and there acted as secretary. He was sent by Temple to William III to convince him of the necessity of triennial Parliaments, but his mission was not successful. Indignant at Temple´s delay in getting him preferment, he returned to Ireland, where was ordained in 1694, and received the prebend of Kilroot. He returned to Temple at Moor Park in 1696, where he edited Temple´s correspondence, and in 1697 wrote “The Battle of the Books” which was published in 1704 together with “A Tale of a Tub”, a satire on corruptions in religion and learning. On the death of Temple in 1699, Swift went again to Ireland, where he was given a prebend in St Patrick´s, Dublin, and the living of Laracor. “The Battle of the Books” (1704) is a prose satire. The “Battle” originates from a request by the moderns that the ancients shall evacuate the higher of the two peaks of Parnassus which they have hitherto occupied.

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