Attribution of human emotion and conduct to non-human things
John Ruskin at Glenfinlas, Scotland (1853–54), by John Everett Millais.[1]
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 descriptions, when, for example, clouds 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).[2][3][4]
^[1] Grieve, Alastair. "Ruskin and Millais at Glenfinlas", The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 138, No. 1117, pp. 228–234, April 1996. (Accessed via JSTOR, UK.)
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^The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th Edition (1988), volume 9, p. 197.
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