Reproduction of the original: A Voice on the Wind by Madison J. Cawein

A superb selection of poems from both sides of the American Civil War features more than 75 inspired works by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Whitman, and many others.

'A Voice on the Wind: and other poems' is one of Madison Cawein's finest works. He was a prolific writer, deeply in love with nature from a very young age, and his work reflected that. Hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, Cawein was considered the 'Keats of the Kentucky' in the early twentieth century, because he was deeply inspired by John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He wrote in the older traditional style, though some of his work inspired T. S Eliot to write poems that would later become the birth of the modernism movement.

A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages–a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve. From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil channels Aeneas’s wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt, in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. From ballads and odes, to spells and chants, to dialogues and incantations, here is a veritable witches’ brew of poems from the spirit world.