Today’s post looks at how the Romantic poets understood weather — not simply as scenery, but as atmosphere in the fullest sense of the word: the air around the body and the emotional climate within it.

From Shelley’s restless winds to Keats’s turning seasons, the Romantics saw weather as a way of revealing the inner life. I’ll share a few examples and then offer a prompt that invites you to explore how shifting skies might enter your own poems.

More a little later this morning.