Keats, Fred Inglis
Arco Publishing, 1969, New York
Paperback
On "To Autumn":
"This poem is, for me, the only one Keats wrote about which one is tempted to make no reservations at all. It is as nearly perfect as such writing can be; it is at any rate as great and as perfect as the best of Shakespeare's sonnets or of George Herbert's The Temple or any other of the seventeenth-century masters. The subject is important in itself, and implies a great deal more about human experience than at first appears; the writing is elegant, rich, serene, and grave in all its details, it is profound and civilized. Such a poem is an enduring nourishment to one's humanity; it alters one's vision of the world and it grafts itself imperceptibly into the spirit and the memory."
Page 141.