The Wordsworth Circle is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies of literature, culture, and society in Great Britain, Europe, and North America during the Romantic period from about 1760–1850.

The journal includes work on non-literary figures (historians, scientists, artists, architects, philosophers, theologians, and social commentators) and topics (science, politics, religion, aesthetics, education, legal reform, and music)—anything that appeared during, impinges upon, or is of interest to Romanticists.

Essay-reviews of major books appear in the fourth issue of every volume.

The journal was established in 1970 with Marilyn Gaull (Boston University) as founding editor-in-chief.

At the same time, the University of Chicago Press took over the journal's publication.