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BATHOS (Gr. 3hOos)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 514 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BATHOS (Gr. 3hOos) , properly See also:depth, the bottom or lowest See also:part of anything. The current usage for an See also:anticlimax, a descent " from the See also:sublime to the ridiculous," from the elevated to the See also:commonplace in literature or speech, is due to See also:Pope's See also:satire on Bathos (Miscellanies, 1727-1728), "the See also:art of sinking in See also:poetry." The See also:title was a- See also:travesty of See also:Longinus's See also:essay, On the Sublime, Ilepi' 6 'uc.

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