I thought “the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” was a surprisingly poetic cover line for a teen magazine, so I looked it up and it is from a poem: “Autumn” by John Keats (though he didn’t write that last bit obviously).
Very sophisticated and cultured of Jackie to be quoting Keats on their front cover which would be unthinkable for a mainstream glossy today. You couldn’t imagine Seventeen having nothing but a line from Phillip Larkin on their cover.
I guess they were trying to be lyrical about the coming of autumn which is a good excuse to dig out this beautiful Bobbie Gentry song (even if it is about Spring).
Download: Seasons Come, Seasons Go — Bobbie Gentry (mp3)
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My Dad made be learn this poem by heart as a very small child. I don’t know why. Think it just amused him to see a 5 year old do Keats. I can still recite it. Not sure its ever been of any use but there you go
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Thinking about it now I think I only ever learnt the first verse
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I did write a bit about the good old days when kids knew poems (and magazines assumed they did enough to put them on covers) but cut it because I didn’t know that was a Keats poem myself so it obviously wasn’t universally true. Maybe I was just a dunce
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bugger keats that bobbie gentry is gorgeous
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