英语词汇pathos的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pathos; bathos. Pathos, which derives directly from the Greek word for suffering, is the quality or power in any of the arts to evoke feelings of tender pity, compassion, or sadness, and gives us characters in literature like Ophelia in Hamlet or even Dickens’s Little Nell. Bathos means quite the opposite and was coined by Alexander Pope from the Greek word bathos, “depth” (not related to our English word “bath”), to indicate a descent from the sublime to the depths of the ridiculous. Pope and other writers of the early 18th century, including Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot, made a sport of parodying contempo- rary writers. Out of this game of wits came Pope’s satire “Bathos, the Art of Sinking in Poetry” (1727), in which he in- vented the word because no similar one existed in English to express the idea.

词汇	pathos
词源	pathos; bathos. Pathos, which derives directly from the Greek word for suffering, is the quality or power in any of the arts to evoke feelings of tender pity, compassion, or sadness, and gives us characters in literature like Ophelia in Hamlet or even Dickens’s Little Nell. Bathos means quite the opposite and was coined by Alexander Pope from the Greek word bathos, “depth” (not related to our English word “bath”), to indicate a descent from the sublime to the depths of the ridiculous. Pope and other writers of the early 18th century, including Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot, made a sport of parodying contempo- rary writers. Out of this game of wits came Pope’s satire “Bathos, the Art of Sinking in Poetry” (1727), in which he in- vented the word because no similar one existed in English to express the idea.
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