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countable and uncountable, plural Petrarchisms
(uncountable) The literary style of Petrarch. examples
(countable) Any literary work or passage written in this style. quotations 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.
2015, Philip R. Hardie, The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature