Editing Pity (section)

==Literary examples==
*[[Juvenal]] considered pity the noblest aspect of human nature.<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=J. D.|editor-last=Duff|title=Fourteen Satires of Juvenal|author=Juvenal|location=Cambridge|year=1925|page=450}}</ref>
*[[mysticism|Mystic]] poet [[William Blake]] was ambivalent about pity, initially casting it in a negative role, before viewing pity as an emotion that can draw beings together. In [[The Book of Urizen]] pity begins when Los looks on the body of Urizen bound in chains.<ref name=Urizen>{{cite book|first=William|last=Blake|title=The Book of Urizen|year=1794}}</ref>{{rp|at=13.50–51}} However, Pity furthers the fall, "For pity divides the soul",{{r|Urizen|at=13.53}} dividing Los and Enitharmon (Enitharmon is named Pity at her birth). Blake maintained that Pity disarmed righteous indignation leading to action; and, railing further against Pity in ''[[The Human Abstract (poem)|The Human Abstract]]'', Blake exclaims: "Pity would be no more, / If we did not make somebody Poor" (1–2).
*[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] made pity—that of the hobbits for Gollum—pivotal to the action of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'':<ref>{{cite book|first=T.|last=Shippey|title=J. R. R. Tolkien|location=London|year=2001|page=143}}</ref> "It was Pity that stayed his hand... the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many".<ref>{{cite book|first=J. R. R.|last=Tolkien|title=[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]|location=London|year=1991|page=58}}</ref>
*[[Wilfred Owen]] prefaced his collection of war poetry with the claim that "My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity"<ref>{{cite book|first=Wilfred|last=Owen|editor-first=J.|editor-last=Silkin|title=Wilfred Owen: The Poems|publisher=Penguin|year=1985|page=43}}</ref>—something [[C. H. Sisson]] considered to verge on sentimentality.<ref>{{cite book|first=C. H.|last=Sisson|title=English Poetry 1900–1950|location=Manchester|year=1981|page=83}}</ref>