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The politics of gathering in Thomson's Autumn and Keats's "To Autumn".(Essays)(James Thomson, John Keats)(Critical essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 20070322
Author:Bohm, Arnd

The suggestion that Keats drew on James Thomson when composing the closing line of "To Autumn" has not aroused any consternation (Vendler 322). The situations are similar, and Keats echoes the crucial verb twitter: "And gathering swallows twitter in the skie" (361). Thomson had described the "swallow-people": 

 
   rejoicing once 
   Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire, 
   In clusters clung beneath the mouldering bank, 
   And where, unpierced by frost, the cavern sweats: 
   Or rather, into warmer climes conveyed. 
   With other kindred birds of season, there 
   They twitter ...

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