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  • While "Chaos and Classicism" is just one slice through the remarkably complex period of the interwar years, it cuts deeply.

    In the Great War's Wake Michael FitzGerald 2010

  • We are not accustomed to think of Gray as a Romantic poet, although we know well that the movement away from the so-called Classicism was begun long before he died.

    The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature Conrad Hjalmar Nordby 1883

  • What is he to understand by these two labels; what are the characteristics of "Classicism" and how far is it opposite to and conflicting with "Romanticism"?

    English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

  • For one thing "Classicism" had become completely naturalized; it had ceased to regard the French as arbiters of elegance and literary taste; indeed

    English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

  • Classicism which is treated with contumely and routed; the glorification of the triumph of Romanticism is found in the stupendously pompous and brilliant setting given to the mastersingers 'music at the end.

    A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

  • If the picture seems to lack relief, or to be in any way exaggerated, the reader should consult the chapters on "Classicism" and "The

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

  • The "Prague" is a better pairing that one might think — the connecting thread being Bruckner's hammered articulations in the 8th's finale (an unusually pianistic texture for him) which nicely sets up Mozart's motoric Classicism.

    Manual transmission Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • The "Prague" is a better pairing that one might think — the connecting thread being Bruckner's hammered articulations in the 8th's finale (an unusually pianistic texture for him) which nicely sets up Mozart's motoric Classicism.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • The way I've always perceived it, especially in relation to the French neo-Classic influence, is that, for Stravinsky and Les Six, neo-Classicism was, in context, a bad-boy kind of stylistic move; for Copland, the neo-Classic/Americana hybrid was a retreat from his own bad-boy period (the Organ Symphony, etc.)

    Just Another Rhumb Line Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • As per the dictates of our current culture, all ages preceding our own are merely prelude: Lotte is a liberated woman, albeit one held hostage by the age of Weimar Classicism.

    Crime Comedy 'Heist' Lacks Conviction John Anderson 2011

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