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Keats and Autumn
This view is presented in English poet John Keats ' poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ' mellow fruitfulness '.
It was in Winchester that Keats wrote " Isabella ", " St. Agnes ' Eve ", " To Autumn " and " Lamia ".
" To Autumn " is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats ( 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821 ).
A little over a year following the publication of " To Autumn ", Keats died in Rome.
In a letter to his friend John Hamilton Reynolds written on 21 September, Keats described the impression the scene had made upon him and its influence on the composition of " To Autumn ": " How beautiful the season is now – How fine the air.
Keats did not send " To Autumn " to Reynolds, but did include the poem within a letter to Richard Woodhouse, Keats's publisher and friend, and dated it on the same day.
Scholars have noted a number of literary influences on " To Autumn ", from Virgil's Georgics, to Edmund Spenser's " Mutability Cantos ", to the language of Thomas Chatterton, to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " Frost at Midnight ", to an essay on autumn by Leigh Hunt, which Keats had recently read.
" To Autumn " is thematically connected to other odes that Keats wrote in 1819.
In " To Autumn ", Bewell argues, Keats was at once voicing " a very personal expression of desire for health " and constructing a " myth of a national environment ".
" To Autumn " employs poetical techniques which Keats had perfected in the five poems written in the Spring of the same year, but departs from them in some aspects, dispensing with the narrator and dealing with more concrete concepts.
Between the manuscript version and the published version of " To Autumn " Keats tightened the language of the poem.
A. C. Swinburne placed it with " Ode on a Grecian Urn " as " the nearest to absolute perfection " of Keats's odes ; Aileen Ward declared it " Keats's most perfect and untroubled poem "; and Douglas Bush has stated that the poem is " flawless in structure, texture, tone, and rhythm "; Walter Evert, in 1965, stated that " To Autumn " is " the only perfect poem that Keats ever wrote – and if this should seem to take from him some measure of credit for his extraordinary enrichment of the English poetic tradition, I would quickly add that I am thinking of absolute perfection in whole poems, in which every part is wholly relevant to and consistent in effect with every other part.
In an 1844 essay on Keats's poetry in the Dumfries Herald, George Gilfillian placed " To Autumn " among " the finest of Keats ' smaller pieces ".
" Literary critic and academic Helen Vendler, in 1988, declared that " in the ode ' To Autumn ,' Keats finds his most comprehensive and adequate symbol for the social value of art.
" Following in 1998, M. H. Abrams explained, To Autumn ' was the last work of artistic consequence that Keats completed [...] he achieved this celebratory poem, with its calm acquiescence to time, transience and mortality, at a time when he was possessed by a premonition [...] that he had himself less than two years to live ".
" In the same year, Thomas McFarland placed " To Autumn " with " Ode to a Nightingale ", " Ode on a Grecian Urn ", " The Eve of St. Agnes " and Hyperion as Keats's greatest achievement, together elevating Keats " high in the ranks of the supreme makers of world literature ".
The poem was written in 1819, and comes within Keats ' most brilliant period-it was written soon after ' La belle dame sans merci ' and his odes on Melancholy, on Indolence, to a Grecian Urn and to a Nightingale and just before arguably his most famous poem, ' Ode to Autumn '.
The following line from John Keats ' To Autumn is a straightforward example:
In the Autumn of that year, Keats wrote " To Autumn ", which completed his Great Odes of 1819.
In English, the choriamb is often found in the first four syllables of iambic pentameter verses, as here in Keats ' To Autumn:

Keats and written
that my last hour was come --" He was later thanked for his devotion by the poet Percy B. Shelley in the preface to his elegy, Adonais, which was written for Keats in 1821.
The Pindarick of Cowley was revived around 1800 by William Wordsworth for one of his very finest poems, the Intimations of Immortality ode ; irregular odes were also written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote odes with regular stanza patterns.
The following critics have written on Hyperion and on Keats ' handling of the epic form:
In presenting the particularly English elements of this environment, Keats was also influenced by contemporary poet and essayist Leigh Hunt, who had recently written of the arrival of autumn with its " migration of birds ", " finished harvest ", " cyder [...] making " and migration of " the swallows ", as well as by English landscape painting and the " pure " English idiom of the poetry of Thomas Chatterton.
" Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written in May 1819 in either the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, or, as according to Keats ' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House, Hampstead, London.
It is possible that the poem was written between 26 April 1819 and 18 May 1819-based on weather conditions and similarities between images in the poem and those in a letter sent to Fanny Keats on May Day.
La Belle Dame sans Merci ( French: " The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy " ) is a ballad written by the English poet John Keats.
The original was written by Keats in 1819.
" Ode on a Grecian Urn " is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published in January 1820 ( see 1820 in poetry ).
Keats developed his own type of ode in " Ode to Psyche ", which preceded " Ode on a Grecian Urn " and other odes he had written in 1819.
After finishing the spring poems, Keats wrote in June 1819 that its composition brought him more pleasure than anything else he had written that year.
Based on his examination of the stanza forms, Keats biographer Andrew Motion thinks " Ode on Indolence " was written after " Ode to Psyche " and " Ode to a Nightingale ", although he admits there is no way to be precise about the dates.
" On First Looking into Chapman's Homer " is a sonnet by English Romantic poet John Keats ( 1795-1821 ) written in October 1816.
When Mary Shelley died, the heart was found in her desk wrapped in the manuscript of " Adonais ," the elegy Shelley had written the year before upon the death of Keats, in which the poet urges the traveler, " Go thou to Rome ...
" Lamia " is a narrative poem written by English poet John Keats in 1820.
Madeleine undressing, painting by John Everett Millais " The Eve of St. Agnes " is a long poem ( 42 stanzas ) by John Keats, written in 1819 and published in 1820.
In his unpublished autobiography, Keats wrote, “ I didn't even ask to get into children & apos ; s books .& rlquo ; In fact, he was asked to do so by Elizabeth Riley of Crowell, which brought out his first children & apos ; s title, Jubilant for Sure, written by Elisabeth Hubbard Lansing, in 1954.
All told, Keats illustrated nearly 70 books written by other authors.

Keats and September
Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley | Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound ( Shelley ) | Prometheus Unbound ( 1845 ) On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail onboard the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet John Keats.
*" Second only to Byron ": an essay on " Barry Cornwall " and Keats from TLS, September 3 2008.
On 19 September 1819, Keats walked near Winchester along the River Itchen.
Text transcribed by Keats into a volume of Shakespeare in late September 1820.
Joseph Severn maintained that the last draft was transcribed into the book in late September 1820 while they were aboard the ship Maria Crowther, travelling to Rome, from where the very sick Keats would never return.
In September 1781 Keats returned to the North American station with Digby in.
Keats then took command of and was promoted commodore with Admiral Gambier ’ s squadron in the Baltic where between 16 August and 7 September he took part in the Second Battle of Copenhagen.
* La Belle Dame sans Merci ( setting of John Keats ' poem, for two sopranos, contralto, tenor, violin, viola, cello, double bass, oboe ( English horn ), clarinet and French horn ; premiered 19 September 1924, at the 7th Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music )

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