Mont Blanc Summary
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc" is subtitled "Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni." It was first published in 1817 as part of the book History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland, which the poet co-authored with his wife, the novelist Mary Shelley. The poem develops a number of motifs and themes characteristic of nineteenth-century Romanticism, such as the uneasy human communion with nature, the power and splendor of the natural world, and the struggle of the ego amidst the tumult and turmoil of a mysterious universe.