The true peri bathous [electronic resource] : or, the Art of sinking in poetry, and rising again in four cantos. By Monsieur Boileau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boileau-Despr'eaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711.

Standardized Title:

Art poétique. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v,[3],59,[5]p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

The third edition, revised and compared with the Dunciad.

Other Title:

True peri bathous

Place of Publication:

London : printed for E. Curll, 1728.

Notes:

Probably an adaptation of Boileau's 'L'art poétique'; a re-issue of the revised Soames-Dryden translation, with additions by another hand (Foxon).

The words 'peri bathous' in the title are transliterated from the Greek, a satirical reference to the original "Peri bathous" attributed to Pope and published in Swift's 'Miscellanies' of 1727.

With one preliminary and two final advertisement leaves.

Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".

Cited in:

Foxon, S542

English Short Title Catalog, N51598.

OCLC:

508251582