LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES—Lionel Wiggam— Viking ($1.75). Of all the fallacies which man hugs to his bosom, the one characterized by Ruskin as “the pathetic fallacy” is the most common to romantic poets.

In one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays, King Lear runs into a storm to express rage against his daughters. When Vancouver theatre artist Anita Rochon learned about this scene back in high ...

We sometimes come across, in a poem or a novel, descriptions of nature that are not, strictly speaking, accurate. We may have read of flowers ‘dancing happily’ in the breeze or ‘angry waves’ smashing ...

Pathetic fallacy is often used to describe the environment. The weather and season can be described with human emotions to reflect the mood of a character or create a tone. 'The raindrops wept around ...

What do you call an idea that grows in popularity the more it is proven wrong? Let’s steal John Ruskin’s literary term, “the pathetic fallacy,” because it is more descriptive than his use of it. The ...