Petrarchism
/pɛˈtɹɑɹkɪzəm/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The literary style of Petrarch. uncountable
- 2 Any literary work or passage written in this style. countable
"But, overall, Donne's poetry represents an epistemic break with the love clichés so overused by an earlier era; and the poet was often moved to use Platonic equatings of love, beauty, and goodness to breathe new life into old Petrarchisms."
Example
More examples"But, overall, Donne's poetry represents an epistemic break with the love clichés so overused by an earlier era; and the poet was often moved to use Platonic equatings of love, beauty, and goodness to breathe new life into old Petrarchisms."
Etymology
From Petrarch + -ism.