Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc

Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield)

Ed. by Daniel Robinson, Widener University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.06: English Writing and Culture of the Romantic Period, 1789-1837.
Vol. editors: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Daniel Robinson (Widener University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1817

Places

England ()

Genres and Modes

Poem

Resources

Composed in July 1816 while touring the Chamonix Valley, “Mont Blanc” was published in the Shelleys’ 1817 History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, a travel narrative concerning two trips taken by the Shelleys and Claire Clairmont (Mary Shelley’s stepsister). There are two versions of “Mont Blanc”—the first, the version found in History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, and the second, a version which came to light in the Scrope Davies Notebook discovered in December 1976. Leader and O’Neill’s Major Works prints both versions as version A and version B, where Reiman and Fraistat’s Shelley’s Poetry and Prose prints the version found in History of a Six Weeks’ Tour but with some variants found in the …

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Citation: Callaghan, Madeleine. "Mont Blanc". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 April 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34179, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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