ABSTRACT
The Seasons may be important to some critics because of its philosophical or historical sentiments, but author wish to argue for its artistic validity. Thomson introduced into English poetry a number of techniques to express his Augustan version of man, nature and God, techniques that permitted him to describe nature in observed, sometimes even scientific detail, while relating it to a classical tradition and a religious belief. Spring is the only season dedicated to a woman, and like the first book of De Rerum Natura, dedicated to Venus, it deals with love. Spring presents the rebirth of nature, of love in birds, animals and man in three stages: the unfolding of love in the réanimation of the earth, the aerial love song and mating of the birds, followed by reference to the bull, stallion, sea monsters and domestic fowl, the ‘infusive force of Spring’ on human love. But throughout this and other seasons, there is the love of God.
