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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Part of the Shelly's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley's best-known poem was written in Florence in late 1819.
Technically it is a series of four sonnets written in 'terza rima', the verse-form Shelley would use again, with similar fluency, in his final poem, The Triumph of Life. The west wind is an agent of change: with seasonal rejuvenation comes a personal rebirth which will, in turn, inspire the 'unawakened Earth'.

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Christopher Adams
Keywords
literature shelley's ghost
#greatwriters
Ode to West Wind
poetry
mary shelley. percy bysshe shelley
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 02/12/2010
Duration: 00:03:51

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