Most Recent Articles from Wordsworth Circle

• The unromantic lives of others: the lost generation of the 1790s 

  I am willing to accept that there could be a genre or sub-genre of biographical writing that could be usefully designated by the term, "Romantic...

  03/22/09 by Kenneth R. Johnston · More from publication

• "True impossibility": editing Byron 

  The title of my paper is a grateful salute to Jerome McGann and it refers to what he said about editing the Clarendon Byron: "having at last...

  03/22/09 by Jane Stabler · More from publication

• Twisty little passages: the several editions of Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon 

  Glenarvon was published in 1816 by Henry Colburn, who advanced Lady Caroline Lamb [pounds sterling]200 with an agreement to pay [pounds...

  03/22/09 by Paul Douglass · More from publication

• Coleridge's Captain Derkheim 

  When Coleridge returned to England from Italy in 1806, he landed at Stagate Creek, the quarantine station for ships with clean bills of health, on...

  03/22/09 by Morton D. Paley · More from publication

• The Revolt of Islam: vegetarian Shelley and the narrative of mental pathology 

  In his Preface to Prometheus Unbound (1820) Percy Bysshe Shelley declares that his imagery has "been drawn from the operations of the human mind."...

  03/22/09 by Frederick Burwick · More from publication

• Joseph Johnson 

  At the 124th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, the Division on the English Romantic Period offered three panels. The first,...

  03/22/09 by Jeffrey N. Cox; William Galperin · More from publication

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