1. A. C. Elias, Jr, Swift at Moor Park: Problems in Biography and Criticism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), p. 48.
2. In contrast, see Philip Pinkus, ‘Swift and the Ancients-Moderns Controversy’, University of Toronto Quarterly, 29 (1959), 46–58 (p. 51).
3. The episode has been extensively discussed. See esp. The Battle of the Books: Eine Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, ed. Hermann J. Real (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1978), pp. xlv–liv.
4. See Ehrenpreis, I, 232–34, Hermann J. Real, ‘Die Biene und die Spinne in Swift’s “Battle of the Books”’, Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, n.s.23 (1973), 169–77, and Roberta F. Borkat, ‘The Spider and the Bee: Jonathan Swift’s Reversal of Tradition in The Battle of the Books’, Eighteenth-Century Life, 3 (December 1976), 44–46.
5. Bacon, Novum organum, Book I, Aphorism XCV, in The Instauratio magna Part II: Novum organum and Associated Texts, ed. and trans. Graham Rees with Maria Wakely (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), p. 153, and The Advancement of Learning, ed. Michael Kiernan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), p. 24.