The art of sinking in poetry
Subtitle: Martinus Scriblerus' [Peri bathous (romanized form)]
By: A critical edition by Edna Leake Steeves, with bibliographical notes on "The last volume" of the Swift-Pope Miscellanies by R. H. Griffith and E. L. Steeves.
Contributors: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.; Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.; Steeves, Edna Leake.
Publisher: King's Crown press
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Other titles: Peri bathous.
Notes: "Though the piece has been published in the works of at least three Scriblerians--Pope, Swift, and Arbuthnot ... it has been generally accepted ... as chiefly Pope's."

The text, which first apeared as the introductory essay in "The last volume" of the 1st ed. of the Swift-Pope Miscellanies (Motte, 1727-28), is here reproduced from two copies of that edition, one in the possession of the editor, and the other in Yale University Library.

E.L. Steeves' thesis--Columbia University.