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Many critics have made speculations on other writers who may have influenced Keats. Andrew P. Scheil writes of the possibility of correlations between Keats' "To Autumn" and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Book 1 personifies despair (just as Keats personifies autumn), which Scheil points out is in close relation to the idea of death. "Autumn and Despair certainly bear very different associations (e.g., Despair is gaunt and starved, whereas Autumn overflows in the bounty of the harvest), but the stylized pattern of Keats' stanza follows the details of Spenser's portrait" (Scheil). If you are interested in studying The Faerie Queen, please click on the picture of the book. |
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