AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
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round-earthers and flat-earthers
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the Welsh and the Scots
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champions of ancient and modern learning
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ancients and Moderns, subject of a literary dispute that raged in France and England in the 17th century. The “Ancients” maintained that the literature of ancient Greece and Rome offered the only models for literary excellence; the “Moderns” challenged the supremacy of Classical writers.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 17th century was a period of unceasing disturbance and violent storms, no less in literature than in politics and society. The Renaissance had prepared a receptive environment essential to the dissemination of the ideas of the new science and philosophy.
Detailed explanation-3: -It depicts a literal battle between books in the King’s Library (housed in St James’s Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. Because of the satire, “The Battle of the Books” has become a term for the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Battle of the Books is a straightforward allegory in which, at one point, a scurrilous spider, representing the Moderns, verbally assaults the obviously favored bee. The distinctions between the two-e.g., utter self-dependence vs.