Wordsworth
['wə:dzwə(:)θ]
Definition
(noun.) a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850).
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Examples
- Well, now, Sir Humphry Davy; I dined with him years ago at Cartwright's, and Wordsworth was there too--the poet Wordsworth, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No; I do not think the actual spirituality of Wordsworth would have appealed to a Greek. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Or, as I may say, Wordsworth was poet one, and Davy was poet two. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Wordsworth at times postponed the description of a scene that appealed to his poetic fancy with the express purpose of blurring the outlines, but enhancing the personal factor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Nature sent her herald, Wordsworth, to proclaim this truth, but alas! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I was at Cambridge when Wordsworth was there, and I never met him--and I dined with him twenty years afterwards at Cartwright's. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Would a Greek Wordsworth have been possible? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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