Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… implicitly acknowledging the creative potential of sociability. Navigating through many circles, in Marlow, London (in Hunt’s ‘Cockney school’) and in Pisa, Shelley also formed intense and durable friendships, the most famous being his … image of the ‘uroburos’ in Prometheus Unbound , Shelley was himself invested in many circles in his lifetime, notably Hunt’s circle, known as the ‘Cockney school,’ whose medium of publication was The Examiner . On 8 December 1816, at the very beginning of his new friendship with Leigh Hunt – the most important one in Shelley’s life according to Jeffrey Cox – Shelley writes to him: ‘I have not in …
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