Aeolian Lute

Photo by Tim Manning

An Aeolian lute is a stringed instrument. Played by the wind, it is referred to in The Odyssey by the ancient Greek poet Homer.

The Aeolian lute or lyre was also a symbol favoured by the Romantic poets, in particular Samuel T. Coleridge, who refers to it in a poem called "Dejection: an Ode."
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