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In the town of New Cumnock in East Ayrshire there is a bridge across Afton Water on the A76 upon which there is a plaque commemorating Robert Burns and his poem. The River Afton of New Cumnock gives its name to Glen Afton through which the river runs, which has connections with William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots (1568), and ...
Ode to the West Wind; W. The Wind (poem) The Wind at Dawn; The Wind Blows (poem) The Wind Shifts
The water entering from the bottom left of the picture is the River Nith and the water entering from the right is Afton Water. The hill in the background is Corsencon Hill (475 metres). Cumnock Castle stood on this site in the Middle Ages. Afton Water rises south of the Afton Reservoir. It flows north through the reservoir and then through New ...
A writer in The Sydney Morning Herald noted, of the original publication: "A beautiful volume, as far as typography goes, is Mr Will H. Ogilvie's 'Fair Girls and Gray Horses,' a collection of Australian poetry with the imprint of the 'Bulletin' Company. The real westward—that means anywhere from Menindie to the Gulf of Carpentaria and west of ...
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.
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Paul Rand. Harcourt, Brace 1975 ISBN 9780156957052 "Review of Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey, in Edinburgh Review, pp. 214–231, vol. XI, October 1807 – January 1808; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 in audio on Poetry Foundation
In European tradition, it has usually been considered the mildest and most favorable of the directional winds. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, the god Zephyrus was the personification of the west wind and the bringer of light spring and early summer breezes; his Roman equivalent was Favonius (hence the adjective favonian, pertaining to the west wind).
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).