Word: wordsworthian
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...with subsequent novels slipping toward the same oblivion.His own personal story fares better, as he still remembers his first stabs at authorship – “writing poems was the ‘cool thing’ at boarding school… unfortunately I was writing Wordsworthian sonnets when everyone else was on to free verse” – and then Oxford, where he admits staying “far too long” first studying, then teaching, then spending “the last year on the dole” doing little for the school...
...academic calendar, warmer weather means winding down. In other words, it’s time for wrapping things up even as we’re still wrapped in layers of winter accoutrements. Even the most dedicated, head-in-the-clouds Romantic poet would be hard-pressed to discern a Wordsworthian recital of a thousand blended notes in a still very frigid Cambridge, but amidst the rising pressure levels it can sometimes seem like there are at least a thousand (if not more) term papers, response papers and problem sets to be conquered with the slow dying of the semester...
...admit to feeling a gush or two of Wordsworthian euphoria. Though a drawing of Yuri Andropov graces my office wall (a warm reminder of the good old days when The Enemy looked the part), I am a cold warrior who does not mourn the passing of the great twilight struggle. The cold war made thinking simpler in a "four legs good, two legs bad" (the Animal Farm axiom) sort of way. But simpler doesn't mean better. There could be no happier outcome for the cold war than for us to win it and for old cold warriors to face...
...Wordsworthian resolve, all she can serve up are two dozen scenes of Harvard pretending to be Cambridge, scenes that any starry-eyed tourist on a one-day visit might see for himself. O-K Dad, put the Polaroid through its paces, first a picture of Jimmy over there by the statue, and then, quick, one of Mom in front of that enormous library before one of those Japs with his goddamn Nikon gets in the way. Miss Westman may live in Cambridge, but she looks at it through the eyes of a tourist...
...play ran in London and New York until 1964 when Miller left it to direct several BBC productions, in-clouding "Alice in Wonderland," a modern adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic. "I tried to portray the feeling of a Victorian childhood in it," he said "I wanted a Wordsworthian interpretation, connecting her loss of innocence with the dream of adolescence. I'm not sure if it was right for television. It was very somber and quite literate...