Durrant, Wordsworthian scholar, Professor, Royal Society of Canada member, and past Mosaic Board Member, is celebrated in this issue. Focusing not on his work, but on his broad interests and valuation of literature, this edition of Mosaic features an array of essays on topics like portraiture, memorialization, nationalism and art, and education and poetry. Essays examine figures like Thomas Carlyle and James McNeill Whistler, Samuel Butler, Marcel Proust, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sydney, Virgil and William Wordsworth, and Matthew Arnold.