Articles liés à The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces
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Biographie de l'auteur
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet. He was also the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub, he is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He published all of his works under pseudonyms — such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier — or anonymously. Towards the end of his life, he became mentally unstable, and his friends (fearing he would be taken advantage of) had him declared of 'unsound mind and memory'. When he died, his fortune (£12,000) was left to found a hospital for the mentally ill, which still exists today as a psychiatric hospital.
Présentation de l'éditeur
Los libros de la Royal Library que defienden a los antiguos y a los modernos están preparados para luchar por decidir qué bando debe ocupar legítimamente la cima del Parnaso: los representantes del mundo clásico greco-latino o los modernos del siglo XVIIII. Esta sátira narra de manera humorística el clásico debate entre los Antiguos y los Modernos, una cuestión cultural muy seria en los siglos XVII y XVIII.
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