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Art critic and historian John Ruskin coined the phrase “pathetic fallacy” to refer to the attribution of human qualities to inanimate (usually natural) objects. While Ruskin believed that the technique could be effective and even admirable in certain circumstances, he also claimed that poets of the “first order” rarely indulged in its use and that its repeated usage marked a poet as belonging to the “second rank” of artists.
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Art critic and historian John Ruskin coined the phrase “pathetic fallacy” to refer to the attribution of human qualities to inanimate (usually natural) objects.
While Ruskin believed that the technique could be effective and even admirable in certain circumstances, he also claimed that poets of the “first order” rarely indulged in its use and that its repeated usage marked a poet as belonging to the “second rank” of artists.
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