title: Great Poets : Shelley
author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
description: The Great Poets series launched in 2007 has proven very popular, offering many of the best-loved poems by popular poets in an inexpensive 1 CD collection. Here is a selection of well-known poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). One of the controversial figures of the English Romantic movement, Shelley's personal life and his early death by drowning cemented his reputation. In this popular collection are many of his best-known poems, including Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark.
zlib_text: Shelley's ode to the West Wind v. 05.19, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 19 August 2018 
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  Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  Ode to the West Wind 
  
  MYSTIC VERSE AND INSIGHTS SERIES 
  ODE TO THE WEST WIND 
  Shelley's ode to the West Wind v. 05.19, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 19 August 2018 
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  Contents 
  Ode to the West Wind 
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  West Wind captured by Aeolian harps 
  4 
  Red notes 
  5 
  Commentary by Ian Lancashire, 9 September 2002 
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  Bibliography 
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  When the wind blows from the west a new world comes into being 
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  MYSTIC VERSE AND INSIGHTS SERIES 
  ODE TO THE WEST WIND 
  Shelley's ode to the West Wind v. 05.19, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 19 August 2018 
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  Ode to the West Wind 
  1 O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, 
  2 Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead 
  3 Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, 
  4 Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, 
  5 Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, 
  6 Who chariotest t