1981
DOI: 10.1017/s0048671x00005324
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The Pathetic Fallacy in Hellenistic Pastoral

Abstract: Thee, shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves And all their echoes mourn.Milton, LycidasWebster's Third International Dictionary defines the ‘pathetic fallacy’ as ‘the ascription of human traits or feelings to inanimate nature.’ While this definition is in substance what John Ruskin meant when he first spoke of the pathetic fallacy more than a century ago, the great critic intended not merely to describe a movement in art, but to denounce that movement:All violent feelings … produce in us a falseness in all… Show more

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“…Oltre Philologus 153 (2009) 1 17 Sul motivo cf. Dick (1968); Gershenson (1974); Buller (1981); Schmidt (1987) 116-122; Reed (1997) 18 Sullo sviluppo del topos in àmbito epigrammatico cf. Tarán (1979) 132-149, mentre per una sua precoce occorrenza nella poesia tragica si rinvia a Di Marco (1997).…”
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“…Oltre Philologus 153 (2009) 1 17 Sul motivo cf. Dick (1968); Gershenson (1974); Buller (1981); Schmidt (1987) 116-122; Reed (1997) 18 Sullo sviluppo del topos in àmbito epigrammatico cf. Tarán (1979) 132-149, mentre per una sua precoce occorrenza nella poesia tragica si rinvia a Di Marco (1997).…”
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