The above answer is wrong. Carlyle didn’t coin the phrase Pathetic Fallacy.
The term was coined by John Ruskin in Modern Painters (1843–60). In some classical poetic forms such as the pastoral elegy, the pathetic fallacy is actually a required convention.
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it was ruskin not carlye most of the answers are wrong here
The above answer is wrong. Carlyle didn’t coin the phrase Pathetic Fallacy.
The term was coined by John Ruskin in Modern Painters (1843–60). In some classical poetic forms such as the pastoral elegy, the pathetic fallacy is actually a required convention.
It was coined by John Ruskin, not Carlyle
Pathetic fallacy was coined by Ruskin
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