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Ode to the West Wind

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noun

  1. a poem (1820) by Shelley.


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After an autumn walk along the Arno in Florence he wrote his Ode to the West Wind; in Pisa The Cloud and To a Skylark.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ozymandias," "Music when soft voices die," "I arise from dreams of thee," "When the lamp is shattered," the "Ode to the West Wind," and "O world!

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin

Shelley wrote an "Ode to Liberty" and an "Ode to the West Wind," both well worth reading and study.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

It is expressed in the opening of Shelley's Alastor, and informs the whole of the Ode to the West Wind.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

She read the "Ode to a Skylark," the "Ode to the West Wind" and "Adonais."

From Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

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