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Classicism   /klˈæsɪsˌɪzəm/   Listen
Classicism

noun
1.
A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms.  Synonym: classicalism.





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"Classicism" Quotes from Famous Books



... continuing power over generation after generation of readers. This much is clear, that a study of Shakespeare's influence is in part a study of changing ideas and ideals in literature—that as he survived the Restoration taste, so he survived the new classicism of the eighteenth and the romanticism of the early nineteenth century. It is also clear that a full record of the influence of Shakespeare on English-speaking readers would touch on almost all the varied changes of thought and conduct that have ...
— The Facts About Shakespeare • William Allan Nielson


Words linked to "Classicism" :   classicalism, humanistic discipline, humanities, idiom, liberal arts, arts, artistic style, romanticism, classicistic, classicist


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