Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… his collaborative and reciprocal literary relationship with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, his second wife. People > Art and Literature Keywords Friendship Italy Poetry Romanticism ‘A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings … the construction of ‘a new progressive elite, whose refinement would guarantee reform without violence.’ 5 5 . Kevin Gilmartin, Prints Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge … poetry and to the preface to Prometheus Unbound – it is through the influence of contemporaries that a writer becomes part of, and in turn helps to shape, the ‘spirit of the age.’ Even in exile, Shelley remained invested in the circle, or …
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