Wordsworth

[ wurdz-wurth ]

noun

1. William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.

Wordsworth

/ ˈwɜːdzˌwəθ; ˌwɜːdzˈwɜːðɪən /

noun

1. WordsworthDorothy17711855FEnglishWRITING: writer Dorothy. 1771–1855, English writer, whose Journals are noted esp for their descriptions of nature
2. WordsworthWilliam17701850MEnglishWRITING: poet her brother, William . 1770–1850, English poet, whose work, celebrating nature, was greatly inspired by the Lake District, in which he spent most of his life. Lyrical Ballads (1798), to which Coleridge contributed, is often taken as the first example of English romantic poetry and includes his Lines Written above Tintern Abbey. Among his other works are The Prelude (completed in 1805; revised thereafter and published posthumously) and Poems in Two Volumes (1807), which includes The Solitary Reaper and Intimations of Immortality

Derived Forms

• Wordsworthian, adjectivenoun

Other Words From

• Words·worthi·an adjective noun
• Words·worthi·an·ism noun

Example Sentences

Looking ahead, Wordsworth plans to investigate how settlers on Mars might use bioplastics or other renewable materials to become self-sustaining.

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Droplets that get much bigger will break apart as they fall, Loftus and Wordsworth found.

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Much bigger than that, and raindrops break apart as they fall, Loftus and Wordsworth found.

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I rush from the boat races to the Rugby field and from there to a date with a Bengalese beauty who lectures on Wordsworth.

From The Daily Beast

At any rate, it invites the complaint that Byron made to Wordsworth: “I wish he would explain his Explanation.”

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I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

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The image of Milton has long stopped being the noble character who William Wordsworth wanted to be “living at this hour.”

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Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.

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The calm and peace which Emerson knew, we know; the perpetual benediction of past years which Wordsworth felt, all may feel.

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The Happy Warrior of Wordsworth gives us probably a very true idea of the mediæval conception of the perfect knight.

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Conduct, she had read, is three fourths of life; and Wordsworth had convinced her that the world is too much with us.

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Specially pleased with an article on 'Wordsworth's Ethics,' in the August number, 1876.

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