[13] It was to this episode that Pope supplied the lines (207-14)
"Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty's self," etc.,
which form his solitary essay in blank verse. Thomson told Collins that he took the first hint of "The Seasons" from the names of the divisions—Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter—in Pope's "Pastorals."
[14] Appendix to Preface to Second Edition of "Lyrical Ballads."
[15] "The Hermit."
[16] "Essay on Man," Epistle I.
[17] "Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?" etc. —Summer, 67.
[18] "Nor, when cold winter keens the brightening flood,
Would I, weak shivering, linger on the brink."
—Ibid. 1259-60.
[19] "Life of Thomson."
[20] "Spring," 755-58.