{"id":230,"date":"2015-02-22T07:45:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T07:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=230"},"modified":"2015-03-19T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T19:14:11","slug":"to-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/keats\/poetry\/to-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"To Autumn by John Keats Introduction & Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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crop of the first two lines of ‘To Autumn’ from the original manuscript image<\/p><\/div>\n

‘To Autumn’ is perhaps Keats’s most famous and beloved work. It is considered the perfect embodiment of poetic form, intent, and effect. It was written in Winchester on 19 September 1819 and first published in 1820. Keats described the feeling behind its composition in a letter to his friend Reynolds, ‘Somehow a stubble plain looks warm – in the same way that some pictures look warm – this struck me so much in my sunday’s [sic] walk that I composed upon it.’<\/p>\n

Click here <\/a>to view both pages of the original manuscript image of ‘To Autumn’.<\/p>\n

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
\nClose bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
\nConspiring with him how to load and bless
\nWith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
\nTo bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
\nAnd fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
\nTo swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
\nWith a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
\nAnd still more, later flowers for the bees,
\nUntil they think warm days will never cease,
\nFor summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.<\/p>\n

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
\nSometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
\nThee sitting careless on a granary floor,
\nThy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
\nOr on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
\nDrows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
\nSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
\nAnd sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
\nSteady thy laden head across a brook;
\nOr by a cyder-press, with patient look,
\nThou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.<\/p>\n

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?
\nThink not of them, thou hast thy music too, –
\nWhile barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
\nAnd touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
\nThen in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
\nAmong the river sallows, borne aloft
\nOr sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
\nAnd full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
\nHedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
\nThe red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
\nAnd gathering swallows twitter in the skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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