However, John Ozell attempted to answer Swift with his translation of Le Lutrin, where the battle sees Tory authors skewered by Whigs.
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Swift's Battle owed a great deal to Boileau's Le Lutrin, although it was not a translation.
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This literary contest was re-enacted in miniature in England when Sir William Temple published an answer to Fontenelle entitled Of Ancient and Modern Learning in 1690.
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William Temple was by that point a retired minister, the Secretary of State for Charles II who had conducted peace negotiations with France.
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He was figured by Swift in the Battle of the Books as the Apollo who directed the fight, and was, no doubt, largely the author of Boyle's essay.