Wordsworthian

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English

Etymology

From Wordsworth +‎ -ian.

Noun

Wordsworthian (plural Wordsworthians)

  1. A scholar of the works of William Wordsworth (1770–1850), English Romantic poet.
    • 1905, J. Roger Rees, Preface to Poems and Extracts by William Wordsworth.
      The inside of it is, however, what interests the Wordsworthian.

Adjective

Wordsworthian (comparative more Wordsworthian, superlative most Wordsworthian)

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of William Wordsworth.
    • 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 241:
      The sentiment is of a distinctly Wordsworthian quality.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 479:
      The whole area was tastefully laid out with gardens full of daffodils and other Wordsworthian aids to memory.
    • 1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, page 23:
      We don’t have Alps in this country, but we have the Drakensberg, or on a smaller scale Table Mountain, which we climb in the wake of the poets, hoping for one of those revelatory, Wordsworthian moments we have all heard about.
    • 2005, H. Elam, F. Ferguson, G. H. Hartman, (title):
      The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading.

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