Rowleyan

English

Etymology

Rowley +‎ -an

Adjective

Rowleyan (comparative more Rowleyan, superlative most Rowleyan)

1. Alternative form of Rowleian
   1. Relating to the literary persona of Thomas Rowley.
      • 2001, John Sitter, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry:

        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.

      • 2015, Donald S. Taylor, Thomas Chatterton's Art: Experiments in Imagined History, page 114:

        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.

      • 2017, Andrew Radford, Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era:

        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'.

   2. Relating to William Rowley.