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Wind as Friend or Foe Sparks Literary Echoes
A Columbus Dispatch piece surveys wind in literature and history, noting winds named by ancient Athenians, references in Bible and Shakespeare, and Emerson and Dickens. It highlights a West Indies wind incident shaping Alexander Hamilton’s youth and a Nevis event that changed his career trajectory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boreas
Apheliotis
Notos
Zephyros
Athens
Acropolis
Shakespeare
Dickens
George Eliot
Emerson
Conrad
West Indies
Alexander Hamilton
Nevis
St. Croix
Columbus
Ohio