...appreciation of the riches of autumn. Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or...from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with a treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies....

...1o2-9, the earth. The mild, autumnal music at the close of 'To Autumn' is a contented valediction. Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. — which may hark back to a formative landscape: the 'gardencroft' at Enfield School, scene of Keats's...

...stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river swallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. COMPOSED 1819, PUBLISHED 1820. 'To Autumn" has been anthologized more often than any other poem in...

...small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; 30 And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. Clare ('I am . . .') © There are a lot of contrasts here: I/my friends, present/past, etc. Pick out...

...stubble-plains with rosy hue. Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourne; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red breast whistles from a garden-croft,...

...mourn Among the river sallows, bome aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies. 5412 'To Autumn' read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read Ǩ " C I 5413 'Bards of Passlon and of Mirth' Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing,...

...stubble-plains with rosy hue: Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. At every turn, 'To Autumn' seems easily to balance forces of life and death, and to combine a sense...

...McFarland, Romanticism, 134-5. Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies." The delicacy of those lines, their orchestration of the small voices of nature,100 is unique. Here...

...stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. If \ve attempt to provide a preliminary description of the poem by isolating its substance, by the...

...stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or...And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;* Hedge crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering...