The speaker addresses autumn directly and personifies it as a ... As readers we are invited to share in Keats’ thought process. We are effectively drawn in by a lively and vibrant description ...

The poet John Keats famously described autumn as the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness... and a new series of The Great British Bake Off. Or he surely would have done had he still been with us.

Keats initially trained as a surgeon but gave it up to write poetry. Six months after completing To Autumn, he experienced the first signs of the tuberculosis that would end his life. In the poem ...