He was a classicist and a student very much more than a man of action.
His understanding was solid, but he was a thorough classicist, and his taste in poetry was formed on Pope.
But it was also involved in an age-old theoretical battle fought by rationalist, reformist and classicist critics.
Perhaps the famous crossgenerational debate among classicists between 'modernist' and 'primitivist' interpretations did not always zero in on the most pertinent issues.
This is clearly discernible in the importance of ceremonial scenes in reform and classicist opera.
We may have to behave like classicists, recreating a society from a pottery-shard.
Some have tried to extrapolate from his theological genius and present him as an outstanding classicist and exegete as well.
In spoken drama, above all in the closed forms of classicist drama, a large, sometimes even predominant, part of the action is usually unseen.
