Rowleyan

English Etymology From en Rowley an. Adjective en Rowleian. Relating to the literary persona of Thomas Rowley. en The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry John Sitter 2001 The work's increased use of Rowleyan language makes the act of reading unavoidably self-conscious as we can no longer rely on our usual ways of making sense of poetry. en Thomas Chatterton's Art: Experiments in Imagined History 114 Donald S. Taylor 2015 It seems clear that Chatterton worke out a theory of the history of English drama that would cilminate in Rowley's Ælla. We have inferred a similar theory of prosodic history from the uncertainty and irregularity of pre-Rowleyan prosody as compared to Rowley's correctness. en Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era Andrew Radford 2017 So Chatterton, by breaking his apprenticeship, deftly steered a course between the Bristolian and the Rowleyan voices: between 'Matrimony he shall not contracct' and 'an hollie Preeste unnmarriageabil'. Relating to William Rowley. en eponyms