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Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry
"Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry" is a short essay by Alexander Pope published in 1727. The aim of the essay is to ridicule contemporary poets.
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The essay is a blow Pope struck in an ongoing struggle against the "dunces." It is a parody in prose of Longinus’ ''Peri Hupsous'' (''On the Sublime''), in that he imitates Longinus’ system for the purpose of ridiculing contemporary poets. According to John Upton, the title reflects an actual phrase in Longinus’ treatise, εἰ ἔστιν ὕψος τις ἢ βάθους τέχνη, in which “βάθους” is a scribal error for “πάθους”.〔John Upton, ''Critical Observations on Shakespeare,'' 2nd ed., London, 1748, pp.255–256. Upton’s reading of Longinus does not, however, appear to have been universally accepted.〕
With this essay, Pope introduced the use of the term ''Bathos'' (Greek βάθος, ''depth'', the antonym to ὕψος (hupsos), ''height'') to mean a failed attempt at sublimity, a ridiculous failure to sustain it, or, more generally, an anticlimax.
Although Pope's manual of bad verse offers numerous methods for writing poorly, of all these ways to "sink," the method that is most remembered now is the act of combining very serious matters with very trivial ones. The radical juxtaposition of the serious with the frivolous does two things. First, it violates "decorum," or the fittingness of subject, and, second, it creates humor with an unexpected and improper juxtaposition.
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