[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Classicism"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Nov 30 15:14:01 UTC 2024


classicism (OED 1827)

1824 Knight's Quarterly Magazine 3: 423 (Google Books)

After having made the Italian presses groan under their learned lucubrations, the determined champions of classicism, and those of romanticism, do not seem to have agreed even on the mustering of their respective authorities.

Fred Shapiro

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