"Rhapsody on a Windy Night" was written by T.S. Eliot in 1911 while he was living and studying in Paris. It was first published in July 1915 in the literary magazine Blast and later included in Eliot's first major poetry collection, "Prufrock and Other Observations," published in 1917. This poem, set in an urban nighttime environment, explores themes of memory, time, and alienation characteristic of Eliot’s early Modernist work and was influenced by his studies of French philosophy and literature during that period.