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Previous articleNext article FreeFrom the EditorCharles W. MahoneyCharles W. Mahoney Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe 2021 review issue of The Wordsworth Circle includes appraisals of 27 books under consideration for the Marilyn Gaull Book Award, which the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association created this year in honor of the founding editor of the journal, to recognize “the most outstanding monograph, biography, or scholarly edition reviewed during the previous year in The Wordsworth Circle.” The charge to the review committee is to determine “the book that best represents the spirit of wide-ranging inquiry, critical acumen, and enduring influence on the field that Marilyn Gaull always championed.” The recipient of this inaugural award will be recognized at the annual lunch of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association at the January 2022 meeting of the Modern Language Association in Washington, DC. Also in honor of its founding editor, The Wordsworth Circle will publish a special issue in 2022 in celebration of Marilyn Gaull’s life and career (vol. 53, no. 1).Among the books under review this year are two biographies of Wordsworth that were published in 2020, the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth: a significantly revised, second edition of Stephen Gill’s William Wordsworth: A Life (first edition 1989) and Jonathan Bate’s Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World. Additional books under review that concentrate on Wordsworth include Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure (Alexander Freer), The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability (Emily Stanback), and William Wordsworth and Modern Travel: Railways, Motorcars and the Lake District, 1830–1940 (Saeko Yoshikawa).There is an exciting constellation of studies of Romantic print and media culture in The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication (Yohei Igarashi), Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain (Michelle Levy), Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture: Poetry, Manuscript, Print, 1780–1850 (Samantha Matthews), and Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (Andrew Stauffer). There is also welcome attention to comparative aspects of Romanticism in The Italian Idea (Will Bowers), Henry Crabb Robinson: Romantic Comparatist, 1790–1811 (Philipp Hunnekuhl), and European Literatures in Britain, 1815–1832 (Diego Saglia).In addition to the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association lunch at the 2022 meeting of the MLA, the Association is sponsoring two scholarly sessions, “Romanticism and Data” and “Romantic Epistemologies,” from which a selection of the proceedings will appear in The Wordsworth Circle, vol. 53, no. 3 (2022). Looking ahead to the 2023 meeting of the MLA, the Association will be sponsoring a session on “Romanticism and Sexuality”; the call for papers appears above. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Wordsworth Circle Volume 52, Number 4Fall 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/716677 Views: 153 © 2021 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.