Wordsworth
William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
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- Words·worth·i·an·ism, noun
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Looking ahead, Wordsworth plans to investigate how settlers on Mars might use bioplastics or other renewable materials to become self-sustaining.
Robin Wordsworth re-creates the atmosphere of ancient Mars | Nikk Ogasa | September 29, 2022 | Science NewsDroplets that get much bigger will break apart as they fall, Loftus and Wordsworth found.
Raindrops on alien worlds will obey Earth-like rules | Lisa Grossman | May 5, 2021 | Science News For StudentsMuch bigger than that, and raindrops break apart as they fall, Loftus and Wordsworth found.
How the laws of physics constrain the size of alien raindrops | Lisa Grossman | April 19, 2021 | Science NewsI rush from the boat races to the Rugby field and from there to a date with a Bengalese beauty who lectures on Wordsworth.
At any rate, it invites the complaint that Byron made to Wordsworth: “I wish he would explain his Explanation.”
“Why Does the World Exist?” by Jim Holt: Review | Anthony Gottlieb | July 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
Why I’ve Learned Many Languages by Aravind Adiga | Aravind Adiga | February 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe image of Milton has long stopped being the noble character who William Wordsworth wanted to be “living at this hour.”
Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.
Children's Ways | James SullyThe calm and peace which Emerson knew, we know; the perpetual benediction of past years which Wordsworth felt, all may feel.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterThe Happy Warrior of Wordsworth gives us probably a very true idea of the mediæval conception of the perfect knight.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertConduct, she had read, is three fourths of life; and Wordsworth had convinced her that the world is too much with us.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonSpecially pleased with an article on 'Wordsworth's Ethics,' in the August number, 1876.
My New Curate | P.A. Sheehan
British Dictionary definitions for Wordsworth
/ (ˈwɜːdzˌwəθ) /
Dorothy. 1771–1855, English writer, whose Journals are noted esp for their descriptions of nature
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 of Wordsworth
- Wordsworthian (ˌwɜːdzˈwɜːðɪən), adjective, noun
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