Manuscript drafts by William Wordsworth of his poems "Persecution" and "The Fall of Aar." The drafts include many crossed-out verses and insertions. The first page contains some lines from his poem "King's College Chapel." "Persecution" was published in his "Ecclesiastical Sketches" and "The Fall of Aar" in his "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820."
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The item is undated. The start year provided is drawn from when Wordsworth began composing his Ecclesiastical Sketches and toured the continent, and the end year provided is drawn from when these poems were first published.
Notes (object):
Original object is mounted and contains annotations by Cornelius Patton.
