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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… Keywords Friendship Italy Poetry Romanticism ‘A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.’ 1 This statement, taken from A Defence of Poetry , has long shaped Percy Shelley’s … solitary bark which Shelley uses in ‘Lines written among the Euganean Hills,’ or by the poetic speaker’s complaint about solitude in ‘Stanzas written in Dejection – December 1818, Near Naples.’ Indeed, Shelley’s exile in Italy perfectly …
Friendship | Italy | Poetry | Romanticism
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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… and streams Ungovernable, and your terrifying winds, That howl so dismally for him who treads Companionless your awful solitudes! There, 'tis the shepherd's task the winter long To wait upon the storms: of their approach Sagacious, into … in his own domain, As of a lord and master, or a power, Or genius, under Nature, under God, Presiding; and severest solitude Had more commanding looks when he was there. When up the lonely brooks on rainy days Angling I went, or trod the …
Poetry | Friendship | Beauty
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Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]
Civility | Conflict | Friendship | Sovereignty | Violence | War
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Voltaire (and his social networks) [ Association ]
Celebrity | Correspondence | Friendship | Networks | Patronage
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