'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.