Rowleyan

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1. Alternative form of Rowleian.
   1. Relating to the literary persona of Thomas Rowley.

      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.

      2001, John Sitter, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

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      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.

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

      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'.

      2017, Andrew Radford, Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era

   2. Relating to William Rowley.