arcadianismn.
Ideally simple rusticity, pastoral simplicity.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > pastoral simplicity
arcadianism1823
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > pastoral poem > [noun] > idyll > character or nature of
arcadianism1823
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1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 54 That Shenstone not only ‘affected that arcadianism’.
1859 D. Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 216 A spirit of lyrical pathos, and of poetical Arcadianism.
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