The Wordsworth Circle is an international quarterly learned journal founded in 1970 to facilitate communication among colleagues interested in the lives, works, and times of British, American, and European writers from 1770 to 1850. The journal is dedicated to the exploration and analysis of Romantic literature, particularly focusing on the works and influence of key figures such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and their contemporaries. It publishes research related to Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Literature and Literary TheoryQ3
Cultural StudiesQ4
Subject Classification
Web of Science Categories
Poetry
Scopus Categories
Cultural StudiesLiterature and Literary Theory
Research Topics (OpenAlex)
Poetry Analysis and CriticismHistorical and Literary StudiesTravel Writing and LiteratureLiterature: history, themes, analysisThemes in Literature AnalysisPublishing and Scholarly CommunicationLexicography and Language StudiesHistorical Linguistics and Language StudiesLanguage, Metaphor, and CognitionModernist Literature and Criticism