Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… Joseph Severn, ‘Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound’, 1845, Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome, Italy. … 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 with sweet … complaint about solitude in ‘Stanzas written in Dejection – December 1818, Near Naples.’ Indeed, Shelley’s exile in Italy perfectly corresponds to Butler’s chronology of the Romantic withdrawal of the years 1817-22, which produced many …
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