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This book is a complete and thorough study of William Words-worth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets emphasizing especially religion and history. The Ecclesiastical Sonnets are a sonnet sequence of 132 poems beginning with the founding of Christianity in England to the state of religion in Wordsworth's day. Although a later work, they characterize many topics close to Wordsworth's heart - the idea of history, pantheism, nature and Christianity. This book studies history and religion as well as Wordsworth's use of sonnet sequence, a genre of his later writing. There has been very little written about the Ecclesiastical Sonnets, which are mentioned only as a footnote or a passing comment in Wordsworth studies. This book will help students to achieve a complete view of Wordsworth the young romantic as well as the elder statesman (poet laureate) of England.