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                          THE POETICAL WORKS
                                  OF
                          WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

                               VOL. VII

                   [Illustration: William Wordsworth
                          after B. R. Haydon]




                          THE POETICAL WORKS
                                  OF
                          WILLIAM WORDSWORTH


                              EDITED BY
                            WILLIAM KNIGHT

                               VOL. VII

                [Illustration: _Dove Cottage Grasmere_]

                                London
                       MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.
                      NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO.
                                 1896

                         _All rights reserved_




CONTENTS


                                1821-2

                                                                    PAGE

  Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series--

  Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into
      Britain, to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion--

         I.  Introduction                                              4

        II.  Conjectures                                               5

       III.  Trepidation of the Druids                                 6

        IV.  Druidical Excommunication                                 7

         V.  Uncertainty                                               7

        VI.  Persecution                                               8

       VII.  Recovery                                                  9

      VIII.  Temptations from Roman Refinements                       10

        IX.  Dissensions                                              10

         X.  Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians           11

        XI.  Saxon Conquest                                           12

       XII.  Monastery of Old Bangor                                  13

      XIII.  Casual Incitement                                        14

       XIV.  Glad Tidings                                             15

        XV.  Paulinus                                                 15

       XVI.  Persuasion                                               16

      XVII.  Conversion