Identify the poet.
Read the following extract carefully. Attribute it to the correct author.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
Select one answer below
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