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- noun A scholar of the works of William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
- adjective Pertaining to William Wordsworth.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The open-ended "something ever more about to be" in Wordsworthian Romanticism finds here its more orthodox Victorian curtailment.
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One of the tricky things about using the "big six" male poets (notably Wordsworth, or all of them from a certain Wordsworthian view) as indices of ecological sensibility, is just how much they appear to insist upon the notion that the self is independent of its world.
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In "Chemin de Fer," the self-distancing persona of the "The Thorn" -- a perfect example of what Coleridge would later call the Wordsworthian spectator ab extra -- has finally become what he beheld.
Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision 1999
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The test of a Wordsworthian is the ability to read with pleasure every line that the poet wrote.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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This being the case, modern philosophy, accounting for the origin of the classical deities by guesses and _a priori_ reasonings, has almost universally adopted that explanation which I have, elsewhere, called Wordsworthian, and which derives them directly from the imagination personifying the aspects of nature.
Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Standish O'Grady 1887
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In his wonderful memoir Naturalist, he wrote of a kind of Wordsworthian "fair seed time for his soul" in which his sense of kinship with the world around him was fostered and nurtured in wilderness.
Anthill: a six-legged adventure from science to fiction 2010
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My own experience in that matter is that the amiable persons who call themselves "Wordsworthian" have read -- usually a long time ago -- "Lucy Gray," "The April Mornings," a picked sonnet or two, and the
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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Riley tries here, I think, to zip from a kind of Wordsworthian alienation in London to a measured appreciation of its crowds, diverse in skin color, in origin, in taste and in appearance; it’s easier to make poetry out of loneliness than to make it (as she wants to do) out of the near-future integrated city which she sometimes sees, and wants to see.
a round O says I feel : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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It had been an intensely romantic, gratifying time, a union of bodies and souls, you might say, and I saw my nostalgia evoked in the poem's almost Wordsworthian lines: "This time / her body made him think of countryside, / some figure from his childhood, sun on scythe, / wind blowing shadows across the shining barley."
My Ex Published A Poetry Collection--About Me! Zoe Triska 2011
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It had been an intensely romantic, gratifying time, a union of bodies and souls, you might say, and I saw my nostalgia evoked in the poem's almost Wordsworthian lines: "This time / her body made him think of countryside, / some figure from his childhood, sun on scythe, / wind blowing shadows across the shining barley."
My Ex Published A Poetry Collection--About Me! Zoe Triska 2011
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