Antedating of "Classicism"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Jun 27 20:54:26 UTC 2006


classicism (OED 1830)

1829 _Foreign Review_ Dec. 319 (Periodicals Archive Online)  The author,
however, is hovering between the opposite confines of classicism and
romanticism.

Fred Shapiro


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