Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… endeavoured to theorize the complex workings of poetic influence, implicitly acknowledging the creative potential of sociability. Navigating through many circles, in Marlow, London (in Hunt’s ‘Cockney school’) and in Pisa, Shelley also … tried to situate him more accurately in the sociable world of his days, both in England and in Italy, and to link this sociability to his keen sense of the complexity of poetic influence, notably in his preface to Prometheus Unbound … was more precisely to create a new collective identity transcending factional politics and to reconstruct the elegant sociability of the early eighteenth century, that is, the construction of ‘a new progressive elite, whose refinement …
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