Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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References to this poem

Four seasons fill the measure of the year

Four seasons fill the measure of the year;
Four seasons are there in the mind of man.
He has his lusty spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He hath his summer, when luxuriously
Spring’s honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming nigh
His nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness — to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “Four seasons fill the measure of the year.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.9 , University of Victoria, 8 April 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_four_seasons_fill_the_measure_of.html.

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John Keats, “Four seasons fill the measure of the year,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.9 , last modified 8th April 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_four_seasons_fill_the_measure_of.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “Four seasons fill the measure of the year.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.9 , last modified 8th April 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_four_seasons_fill_the_measure_of.html.