Wordsworth

American  

[wurdz-wurth] / ˈwɜrdzˌwɜrθ /

noun

1. William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.

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Wordsworth British  

/ ˈwɜːdzˌwəθ, ˌwɜːdzˈwɜːðɪən /

noun

1. Dorothy. 1771–1855, English writer, whose Journals are noted esp for their descriptions of nature

2. her brother, William . 1770–1850, English poet, whose work, celebrating nature, was greatly inspired by the Lake District, in which he spent most of his life. Lyrical Ballads (1798), to which Coleridge contributed, is often taken as the first example of English romantic poetry and includes his Lines Written above Tintern Abbey. Among his other works are The Prelude (completed in 1805; revised thereafter and published posthumously) and Poems in Two Volumes (1807), which includes The Solitary Reaper and Intimations of Immortality

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Other Word Forms

• Wordsworthian adjective
• Wordsworthianism noun

Example Sentences

As William Wordsworth put it, “The world is too much with us.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It was a lovely poem by Mr. William Wordsworth, called “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” although nowadays most people simply know it as “Daffodils,” as that is what the poem is about.

From Literature

John Wordsworth, the brother of renowned Romantic poet William Wordsworth, was the ship's captain.

From BBC

Lake District documentary-maker and photographer Terry Abraham said Mr Naylor would be "remembered like Wordsworth, Ruskin and Wainwright within the history of the most beautiful corner of England".

From BBC

Jackson about Romantic literature, which shows that Blake and Austen and Wordsworth and Keats among others were not thought to be the best of the best in their time.

From Salon