Wordsworthian
- a word derived from Wordsworth.
Example Sentences
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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
If Wordsworth promoted self-expression as the quintessence of poetry, his contemporary John Keats, in private correspondence, expressed concerns about what he called “the Wordsworthian or egotistical sublime.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019
There are expert jokes, passing celebs and moments of access to Wordsworthian glory.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017
The extracts from the Biographia Literaria are placed next to the Wordsworthian doctrines which they criticize; otherwise the arrangement of the essays is chronological.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
