Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… Marilyn Butler has argued that the poet rather embodies a character from Wordsworth’s poem The Excursion ). 2 The impression that Shelley was indeed a lone creative spirit was then further reinforced by the motif of the solitary bark … Butler, Romantic, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background 1760-1830 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), p. 141. Although these elements tend to build Shelley as an embodiment of the myth of the Romantic solitary … but also on his poetic production. 3 . The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Frederick Jones (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), vol. 1, p. 516. 4 . Jeffrey Cox, Poetry and Politics in The Cockney School. Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their …
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