SERIES III.-COMPOSED MOSTLY DURING A TOUR IN
SCOTLAND AND ON THE ENGLISH BORDER IN
1831

SERIES IV.-COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A

TOUR TO STAFFA AND IONA IN 1833.

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THE RIVER DUDDON

A SERIES OF SONNETS

183

ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS

PART I.-FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRIST-
IANITY INTO BRITAIN TO THE CONSUMMA-
TION OF THE PAPAL DOMINION

PART II.-TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE

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The Author's Preface to 'The Sonnets of William Wordsworth'

(1838)

SOME of my friends having expressed a wish to see all the Sonnets that are scattered through several volumes of my Poems, brought under the eye at once; this is done in the present publication, with the hope that the collection, made to please a few, may not be unacceptable to many others. Twelve new ones are added which were composed while the sheets were going through the press.

My admiration of some of the sonnets of Milton first tempted me to write in that form. The fact is not mentioned from a notion that it will be deemed of any importance by the reader, but merely as a public acknowledgment of one of the innumerable obligations which, as a poet and a man, I am under to our great fellowcountryman.

RYDAL MOUNT,

May 21st, 1838