… Far from following the script of the lone Romantic genius, Percy Shelley (1792-1822) purposely cultivated numerous friendships with the most talented writers of his time. In his preface to Prometheus Unbound , Shelley even endeavoured … many circles, in Marlow, London (in Hunt’s ‘Cockney school’) and in Pisa, Shelley also formed intense and durable friendships, the most famous being his creative but strained connection with Lord Byron. More recently, new scholarship … literary relationship with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, his second wife. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Friendship Italy Poetry Romanticism ‘A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude …