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Yurlady comes from a poor family, several generations stuffed into a single small apartment, and the divisions between her and the more bourgeois creative class aren’t melted away by sheer Wordsworthian magic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Thorne’s adaptation operates under the Wordsworthian principle that the child is father to the man.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2021

There are expert jokes, passing celebs and moments of access to Wordsworthian glory.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017

How elegant they were: dainty in size, their name conjuring a picturesque hunt in the Wordsworthian countryside.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2017

The poet may take things that had previously existed—the Keatsian and Shelleian lyric, the Wordsworthian attitude to Nature, the Miltonic blank verse; but inevitably, invariably, each under his hands becomes different, becomes individual and original.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George