The open-ended "something ever more about to be" in Wordsworthian Romanticism finds here its more orthodox Victorian curtailment. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
The test of a Wordsworthian is the ability to read with pleasure every line that the poet wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference
The way I see it, it's as Wordsworthian as it is Freudian. From Wordnik.com. [Language Makes the Senses One] Reference
He is the author of Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of. From Wordnik.com. [About This Volume] Reference
It's a very Wordsworthian something, in case you're wondering. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
Fruman also discerns Wordsworthian influences in much of the poem. From Wordnik.com. [Notes] Reference
They are, to lift a Wordsworthian coinage from the 1805 version of. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
Wordsworthian line, but it is not a line answerable to Chaucer's. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Bloom has called 'the most defiantly Wordsworthian of modern critics'(607). From Wordnik.com. [Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...''] Reference
In another instance Poe upbraids Hawthorne for not being Wordsworthian enough. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
I was in the Wordsworthian predicament, lamenting that "a glory" had passed away. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
Flock, and of course the streams and fountains from all over the Wordsworthian oeuvre. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth] Reference
Shelley was a believer and a disciple, and converted Byron to the Wordsworthian creed. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The poem enacts the Wordsworthian idea of poetry as emotion recollected in tranquility. From Wordnik.com. [John Lundberg: Seamus Heaney Reflects On His Life In Verse] Reference
He tried in vain to retrain himself as a Wordsworthian, perhaps as a contrarian exercise. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur] Reference
Turning to Deleuze: how different Deleuze's meanderings are from the Wordsworthian stroll. From Wordnik.com. [Wandering in the Landscape with Wordsworth and Deleuze] Reference
"Elective Surgery" overflows, but it aims for no Wordsworthian integrative vision from its tranquility. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
The clash between Blakean and Wordsworthian perspectives in "Twelfth Morning," then, is not undecidable. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference
The rest of her lifetime following this visit was devoted to bringing Wordsworthian theories into practice. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
Her use of the word "dreary" is a clever utilization of a subjective adjective (and a very Wordsworthian one). From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
Wordsworthian temper we are able to say that "Nature asks his approbation as it were of her works and variety.". From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
As the title suggests, these stories all contain a very prominent (and what Poe would deem Wordsworthian) moral. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
By phonetic traction alone, one may say, the Wordsworthian gift lingers on, virtual still, into its aftermath in. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
Both link it with a sort of deep individualism – being your true self, in Wordsworthian isolation from worldly pressures. From Wordnik.com. [Let them pray] Reference
A Wordsworthian society without beggars, or such feeble old paupers as Simon Lee, would be shorn of all its poetic beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
Unlike other anthologies which merely included Wordsworth, Garland of Flora was compiled according to a Wordsworthian precept. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
She is author of Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetics (1995), and A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism (forthcoming). From Wordnik.com. [Contributors] Reference
High Victorian poets could not be content unless their speakers could take on personal stances dignified by Wordsworthian high eloquence. From Wordnik.com. [Abstracts] Reference
The whole poem, in a sense, is about just the kind of effect that Wordsworth so brilliantly manages in the "Intimations" Ode: Wordsworthian. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth] Reference
Hawthorne's inclusion of the Wordsworthian moral in his stories is part of the reason why Poe considers them "peculiar and not original" (449). From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
The "ballad" quoted in the tale only reflects Usher's insane (and very Wordsworthian) certainty of "the sentience of all vegetable things" (104). From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
Despite the evidence of complexion, however, Bishop's little black boy has less in common, after all, with his Blakean than with his Wordsworthian prototype. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference
Wordsworthian traveler "fostered alike by beauty and by fear," who exhibits a penchant for introspection and a profound sensitivity to one's natural surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece] Reference
The Memorial is a very powerful plea for the enlargement of the Worcester Insane Asylum, and it is also one of the most fascinating pieces of Wordsworthian influence. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
Attentive readers will have noted how Blanchot negates the voluminous Wordsworthian sky ( "a blue-black vault ... the gloomy vault") as a sky that is absolutely empty. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster] Reference
As one can tell from even this brief excerpt, the young Wollheim is a budding aesthete — a Wordsworthian Proust, fostered alike by beauty, boredom, and suburban fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster] Reference
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