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Augustanism|ɔːˈgʌstənɪz(ə)m| [f. Augustan a. + -ism.] The condition of being Augustan.
1903T. Watts-Dunton in Chambers's Cycl. Eng. Lit. III. 5/1 [Gray's] chief poem, the famous elegy, furnishes a striking proof of the poet's slavery to Augustanism. 1904Athenæum 16 Jan. 73/1 The period of Augustanism in English literature—that age of acceptance which began after Milton and ended with Gray and Collins. 1955J. Lawlor in Ess. & Stud. VIII. 61 This is the real achievement of Augustanism..the imposition of order, the self-possession of the artist. |