inspirited by this wind
What Wordsworth calls the
"correspondent breeze" (The Prelude, I.35), the dynamic response of
the human imagination to natural or divine inspiration, is a frequent
theme among the first generation of English Romantic poets (particularly
Coleridge and Wordsworth) and has been much
discussed by critics (see, for example, M. H. Abrams, "The Correspondent Breeze: A Romantic
Metaphor"). Closer to home, the same correspondence will become the
motivating force in Percy Bysshe
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" in 1819.
