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Wordsworthian

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Words·worth  (wûrdzwûrth), William 1770-1850.
British poet whose most important collection, Lyrical Ballads (1798), published jointly with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped establish romanticism in England. He was appointed poet laureate in 1843.
Words·worthi·an adj.
Wordsworthian [ˌwɜːdzˈwɜːðɪən]
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(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) of, relating to, or reminiscent of William Wordsworth, the English poet (1770-1850)
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Adj.1.Wordsworthian - in the manner of William Wordsworth
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Matthew Arnold, a disciple of Wordsworth and Goethe, and "the one major Victorian writer of whom it can be said without metaphor that he was nurtured in the Wordsworthian presence" (Gill 174), asks England and Europe to remember his mentor in his celebrated "Memorial Verses" read at Wordsworth's graveside: "Ah
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The whole Wordsworthian catalogue appears in one place or another in this poem--fears gone by pressing like fears to come, conjurings from fictions, mournful calendars of history, dim admonishments, cycles of obsessive worry, damage wrought upon the self--but largely in a domestic context.
Poetry and Insomnia by Matthias, John / Harvard Review
Tacitly alluding to Abrams's Natural Supernaturalism (which he had explicitly cited in his 1992 paper), he calls Lilith MacDonald's Wordsworthian "high argument"--"an invented myth based on Christian allegory" (23).
Lilith in a New Light: Essays on the George Macdonald Fantasy Novel by Gray, William / Mythlore
 
 
 
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