From the Editor

This issue of The Wordsworth Circle, initiated and organized by Matthew C.Jones, presents a vibrant dossier of articles under the heading of "Romanticism and Wales."The contributors take their bearings from a simple yet generative question: What is Wales to Wales?Or, in Welsh, beth yw Cymru i Gymru?More specifically, what is Wales to Wales, and beth yw Cymru i Gymru, in the Romantic era?As Jones observes in his introduction, "The question is worth asking in Welsh, as Welsh was the sole language of home, market, education, religion, and-as Welsh-language literacy rose over the eighteenth century-print culture for much of the country.While the twenty-first century has seen a welcome scholarly reckoning with Welsh notions of self, nation, and place within both the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their scholarly discussions . . ., much work has continued to trace Wales as it appears in the English imagination."The scholarship included in this issue of The Wordsworth Circle will, we hope, provoke further inquiry into the cultural heterogeneity of Wales (not confined to the literary) and invite renewed attention to the archives, texts, and voices that have too often been sidelined.As the question of beth yw Cymru i Gymru continues to resonate (Jones argues), so too do the insights gathered in these pages.