Question

What is American Classicism?

An example in literature?

Answer 1

Classicism – Classicism is an approach to literature and the other arts that stresses reason, balance, clarity, ideal beauty, and orderly form in imitation of the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Classicism is often contrasted with Romanticism, which stresses imagination, emotion, and individualism. Classicism also differs from Realism, which stresses the actual rather than the ideal.

Answer 2

An example of this is in Phillis Wheatley's "To His Excellency General Washington."