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Keats's TO AUTUMN.(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19990922
Author:SCHEIL, ANDREW P.

Spenser's poetry inspired John Keats throughout his life. One calls to mind Keats's description of himself as a "jealous honorer" of Spenser, a "forester deep in thy midmost trees." [1] "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" betray the obvious influence of Spenser, and the Mutability Cantos have been cited as a source for Keats's personifications in the second stanza of "To Autumn." [2] However, Spenser's Despair from book 1 of The Faerie Queene also lurks behind this stanza. [3]

In the first stanza of "To Autumn" Keats gives us autumn as a generalized concept ...

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