-
literary term,
first used in this
sense in
Alexander Pope's 1727
essay "Peri
Bathous", to
describe an
amusingly failed attempt at
presenting artistic greatness...
- "Peri
Bathous, Or the Art of
Sinking in Poetry" is a
short essay by
Alexander Pope
published in 1728. The aim of the
essay is to
ridicule contemporary...
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inhabitants is an
example of catachresis.
Example from
Alexander Pope's Peri
Bathous, Or the Art of
Sinking in Poetry:
Masters of this [catachresis] will say...
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Alexander Pope
Plays Three Hours After Marriage (1717)
Essays "Peri
Bathous, Or the Art of
Sinking in Poetry" (1727)
Poetry "Ode on Solitude" (1700)...
-
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's
Travels book III and
Alexander Pope's Peri
Bathous, Or the Art of
Sinking in Poetry,
Memoirs of
Martin Scriblerus, and possibly...
- e
Alexander Pope
Plays Three Hours After Marriage (1717)
Essays "Peri
Bathous, Or the Art of
Sinking in Poetry" (1727)
Poetry "Ode on Solitude" (1700)...
- with
others 1717:
Elegy to the
Memory of an
Unfortunate Lady 1728: Peri
Bathous, Or the Art of
Sinking in
Poetry 1728: The
Dunciad 1731–1735:
Moral Essays...
- e
Alexander Pope
Plays Three Hours After Marriage (1717)
Essays "Peri
Bathous, Or the Art of
Sinking in Poetry" (1727)
Poetry "Ode on Solitude" (1700)...
- e
Alexander Pope
Plays Three Hours After Marriage (1717)
Essays "Peri
Bathous, Or the Art of
Sinking in Poetry" (1727)
Poetry "Ode on Solitude" (1700)...
- The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad,
alongside prose essays like Peri
Bathous, and an
excerpt of his
translation of Homer. Some
editions include whole...
