Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… relationship with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, his second wife. People > 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 posterity as a solitary Romantic genius. Moreover, many have read the figure of … of the years 1817-22, which produced many of the most compelling poetic works of the period (Butler 154). 1 . Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, ed. Donald H. Reimand and Neil Fraistat (New York: Norton, 2002), p. 516. 2 . Marilyn Butler, Romantic, …
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