[PDF] Download The Seasons, and Miscellaneous Poems (Classic Reprint). Read an Excerpt. INTRODUCTION: WHAT THE ROBIN KNOWS ONE EARLY SPRING DAY when I was a teenager and already keenly interested in birds, I was scouting the vast salt marshes of southern New Jersey, and I saw a ruff. Out of an ample body of miscellaneous writing which includes one confused Radcliffian imitation called Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio (1807), Maturin at length evolved the vivid horror-masterpiece of Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), in which the Gothic tale climbed to altitudes of sheer spiritual fright which it had never known before. Early Wynn Jr. (January 6, 1920