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1820 publication in the collection Prometheus Unbound with Other Poems 1820 cover of Prometheus Unbound, C. and J. Collier, London "Ode to the West Wind" is an ode, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 in arno wood [1] [clarification needed] near Florence, Italy.
Charles Olson quotes the poem in "Projective Verse" (1950). Thomas Pynchon for the title of his first published story, The Small Rain (1959). Ezra Pound includes the poem in Confucius to Cummings, edited with Marcella Spann (1964). George Oppen alludes to the poem in "O Western Wind" (1962),"The Little Pin: Fragment" (1975) and "Disasters" (1976).
James Dickey called Stafford one of those poets "who pour out rivers of ink, all on good poems." [8] He kept a daily journal for 50 years, and composed nearly 22,000 poems, of which roughly 3,000 were published. [9] In 1970, he was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that is now known as Poet Laureate.
Through Wind and Rain, 1875, McManus Galleries, Dundee He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of the Scottish landscape and is often labelled the "Scottish Impressionist". He married Marjory Henderson (1856–1936), the daughter of another painter, Joseph Henderson RSW (1832–1908), Joseph's sons John Henderson (1860–1924) and ...
The wind moans in a grief that cannot be expressed in words; the rain storm billows in vain; the trees are barren and their branches strain under the unceasing onslaught. A gloom pervades the world. A dirge is a song meant to invoke and express the emotions of grief and mourning that are typical of a funeral.
The Irish band Altan recorded a version of the ballad "The Wind and Rain" on their 2005 album Local Ground. Loreena McKennitt covered a version of the tale "The Bonny Swans" on her album The Mask and Mirror. Bellowhead recorded a version called "Wind & Rain" for their album Broadside.
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The book contained 31 poems, seven of which had appeared in print before: ‘Lament of the Mother Tongue’ and ‘The Ould Times’ in Mannin (Volumes I and V), [3] and 'Friends', 'Vespers', 'A Fancy', 'To an Exile', 'Exile to Exile' and 'Lament of the Mother Tongue' in A Book of Manx Poetry edited by William Cubbon. [4] Two of the poems were ...