Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… sent the fair copy of ‘Julian and Maddalo’ to Hunt from Italy as an attempt to reproduce ‘something of the sense of intellectual exchange so important to the world Hunt created around himself.’ 6 For Donald H. Reiman, the circle was … in Leghorn, Shelley had become again a solitary ‘spider’ trapped in a ‘soft cell’ – a metaphor for both physical and intellectual isolation – far from the members of the Cockney school he duly enumerates later in the poem, by whom Shelley … wife, although this relationship was also strained and shifted across time, notably due to the growing sentimental and intellectual estrangement of the couple in the later years. Percy and Mary eloped in 1814 and married in December 1816, …
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