corinthianism

Updated: June 17, 2025

Lawrence, who was really a scholar, felt to the full the Præ-Raphaelite influence in art, though by no means in religion, and wrote in a style which is a sort of transition between the excessive floridness of the first Lord Lytton and the later Corinthianism of Mr. Symonds.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)