Wordsworthian
English edit
Etymology edit
From Wordsworth + -ian.
Noun edit
Wordsworthian (plural Wordsworthians)
- 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.
- 1905, J. Roger Rees, Preface to Poems and Extracts by William Wordsworth.
Adjective edit
Wordsworthian (comparative more Wordsworthian, superlative most Wordsworthian)
- 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.