释义 |
Southeyan, a.|ˈsʌðɪən| [f. the name of the English poet and prose writer Robert Southey (1774–1843) + -an.] Of, pertaining to or characteristic of the writings of Southey. Hence Southeˈyana [ana suffix], writings, etc., relating to Southey.
1817Keats Let. 11 May (1931) I. 32, I am very near agreeing with Hazlitt that Shakespeare is enough for us. By the by what a tremendous Southean [sic] article his last was. 1931Blunden Votive Tablets 191 A modern house would not contain a collection of Southeyana. Ibid. 198 The last sentences of the extract show the Southeyan good sense. 1974R. Holmes Shelley ix. 207 The prose notes are constantly more powerful and effective than the long-drawn Miltonic or Southeyan rhetoric of the verse. |