Wuthering Heights (song) 18, within a few hours late at night on 5 March 1977. She was inspired after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel "Wuthering Heights". She then read the book and discovered that she shared her birthday with author Emily Brontë. "Wuthering Heights" is sung from the perspective of the "Wuthering Heights" character Catherine Earnshaw, pleading at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. It quotes Catherine's dialogue, including the chorus lyric "Let me in! I'm so cold!" and "bad dreams in the night". Critic Simon Reynolds described it as "Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody".
Wuthering Heights corpse and dancing with it in the cold moonlight". The song "Cath" by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie was inspired by "Wuthering Heights". The poem "Wuthering" (2017) by Tanya Grae uses "Wuthering Heights" as an allegory. Maryse Condé's "Windward Heights" ("La migration des coeurs", published in 1995; English translation published in 1998) is a reworking of "Wuthering Heights" set in Cuba and Guadaloupe at the turn of the 20th century, which Condé stated she intended as an homage to Brontë. Mizumura Minae's "A True Novel" ("Honkaku shosetsu", published in 2002 by Shinchosha; English translation by Juliet Winters Carpenter