PERSON@1 's libretto was his own rendering into MISC@1 of extracts from the long MISC@2 poem `` The Seasons '' by PERSON@2 -LRB- NUMBER@1 -RRB- , which had been published in NUMBER@2 .

He used a long MISC@2 poem with the same title by PERSON@2 -LRB- NUMBER@1 -RRB- .
