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Pathetic fallacy
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The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. It is a kind of personification that occurs in poetic desc
John Ruskin at Glenfinlas, Scotland (1853–54), by John Everett Millais
John Ruskin at Glenfinlas, Scotland (1853–54), by John Everett Millais
John Ruskin by a Roycrofter
John Ruskin by a Roycrofter
Modern Painters
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Modern Painters is a five-volume work of art criticism by the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old and based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. Ruskin argues tha
Pathetic fallacy
…seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent. The English cultural critic John Ruskin coined the term in the third volume of his work Modern Painters (1856). Ruskin coined the term pathetic fallacy to criticize the sentimentality that was common to the poetry of the late 18th century, especially among…
John Ruskin in the 1850s
John Ruskin in the 1850s
Engraving of Ruskin by Henry Sigismund Uhlrich [de], c. 1860
Engraving of Ruskin by Henry Sigismund Uhlrich [de], c. 1860