The Battle of the Books
Jonathan Swift worked for William Temple during the time of the controversy, and Swift's "A Tale of a Tub" (1703/1705) takes part in the debate. From its first publication, Swift added a short satire entitled "The Battle of the Books" to the "Tale of a Tub." In this piece, there is an epic battle fought in a library when various books come alive and attempt to settle the arguments between moderns and ancients. In Swift's satire, he skilfully manages to avoid saying which way victory fell. He portrays the manuscript as having been damaged in places, thus leaving the end of the battle up to the reader.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
This is the third book of the Time Quintet, preceded by, in publication order, "A Wrinkle in Time" (1962) and "A Wind in the Door" (1973). However, this was not the chronological order. Though "Many Waters" was written and published later than "A Swiftly Tilting Planet", it takes place earlier with respect to the characters. The last book in the Quintet, "An Acceptable Time" takes place a generation after "A Swiftly Tilting Planet", and is part of the Polly O'Keefe series of books. The larger "Murry-O'Keefe" series (the Time Quintet plus the books of Poly/Polly O'Keefe) contains three novels between "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" and "An Acceptable Time" in terms of character chronology. These are "The Arm of the Starfish", "Dragons in the Waters", and "A House Like a Lotus."