ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the multivalent effects of Percy B. Shelley’s claims, first to own the scene he beheld in Mont Blanc and then to be its on his relationships between himself, his audience and God. The idiosyncrasies of the Shelley a style and thinking in the poem belie attempts to bracket it simply as an imitation of the efforts of William Wordsworth or S. T Coleridge, though the matter of how Shelley related to his predecessors is one of the many important issues in the poem. Shelley realised that his conception of love was sufficiently unconventional to require an explanation. For Shelley, the experience of the sublime may be better understood as an act projecting the universality of the ‘human mind’s imaginings’ onto nature. This first attribute of his concept of love stems from that projection, its creation of a universal community.
