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 …
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