Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 formed intense and durable friendships, … Prose, 208)). Foregrounding the 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 … University Press, 1996), p. 221. As a result, this circle of fellow poets and writers – not unlike earlier manuscript circles – also provided an immediate and sympathetic audience for Shelley’s poetic production, and a source of …
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