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Bathos
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Gr. (36,eos), properly depth, the bottom or lowest part of anything. The current usage for an anticlimax, a descent "from the sublime to the ridiculous," from the elevated to the commonplace in literature or speech, is due to Pope's satire on Bathos (Miscellanies, 1727-1728), "the art of sinking in poetry." The title was a travesty of Longinus's essay, On the Sublime, IIE,06 Utkovs.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bathos'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bathos.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bathos'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bathos.html. 1910.
