Rowleyan

Adjective

Rowleyan (comparative more Rowleyan, superlative most Rowleyan)

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
   • 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
2. Relating to William Rowley.