Wordsworthian

The open-ended "something ever more about to be" in Wordsworthian Romanticism finds here its more orthodox Victorian curtailment.

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

One of the tricky things about using the "big six" male poets (notably Wordsworth, or all of them from a certain Wordsworthian view) as indices of ecological sensibility, is just how much they appear to insist upon the notion that the self is independent of its world.

'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth 2001

In "Chemin de Fer," the self-distancing persona of the "The Thorn" -- a perfect example of what Coleridge would later call the Wordsworthian spectator ab extra -- has finally become what he beheld.

Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision 1999

The test of a Wordsworthian is the ability to read with pleasure every line that the poet wrote.

Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

This being the case, modern philosophy, accounting for the origin of the classical deities by guesses and _a priori_ reasonings, has almost universally adopted that explanation which I have, elsewhere, called Wordsworthian, and which derives them directly from the imagination personifying the aspects of nature.

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Standish O'Grady 1887

In his wonderful memoir Naturalist, he wrote of a kind of Wordsworthian "fair seed time for his soul" in which his sense of kinship with the world around him was fostered and nurtured in wilderness.

Anthill: a six-legged adventure from science to fiction 2010

My own experience in that matter is that the amiable persons who call themselves "Wordsworthian" have read -- usually a long time ago -- "Lucy Gray," "The April Mornings," a picked sonnet or two, and the

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

Riley tries here, I think, to zip from a kind of Wordsworthian alienation in London to a measured appreciation of its crowds, diverse in skin color, in origin, in taste and in appearance; it’s easier to make poetry out of loneliness than to make it (as she wants to do) out of the near-future integrated city which she sometimes sees, and wants to see.

a round O says I feel : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

It had been an intensely romantic, gratifying time, a union of bodies and souls, you might say, and I saw my nostalgia evoked in the poem's almost Wordsworthian lines: "This time / her body made him think of countryside, / some figure from his childhood, sun on scythe, / wind blowing shadows across the shining barley."

My Ex Published A Poetry Collection--About Me! Zoe Triska 2011

It had been an intensely romantic, gratifying time, a union of bodies and souls, you might say, and I saw my nostalgia evoked in the poem's almost Wordsworthian lines: "This time / her body made him think of countryside, / some figure from his childhood, sun on scythe, / wind blowing shadows across the shining barley."

My Ex Published A Poetry Collection--About Me! Zoe Triska 2011