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

All titles

• The true peri bathous: or, the Art of sinking in poetry, and rising again in four cantos. By Monsieur Boileau.
• Art poétique. English
• Art of poetry.

People / Organizations

• Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (Author)
• Edmund Curll ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for E. Curll, 1728.

Publication year

1728-1728

ESTC No.

N51598

Grub Street ID

35583

Description

v,[3],59,[5]p. : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

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.

Uncontrolled note

Frontis. = ill., included in the pagination