Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… talented writers of his time. In his preface to Prometheus Unbound , Shelley even endeavoured to theorize the complex workings of poetic influence, implicitly acknowledging the creative potential of sociability. Navigating through many … one in Shelley’s life according to Jeffrey Cox – Shelley writes to him: ‘I have not in all my intercourse with mankind experienced sympathy & kindness with which I have been so affected, or which my whole being has so sprung forward to meet & to return.’ 3 This …
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