...among the viewless gales ! Far, far above, piercing the infinite sky, Mont Blanc appears,—still, snowy, and serene— Its subject mountains their unearthly...the eagle brings some hunter's bone, And the wolf tracks her there—how hideously Its shapes are heaped around ! rude, bare, and high, Ghastly, and...

...Tanyrallt in 1812. Mont Blanc brought "a sentiment of extatic wonder, not unallied to madness," 66 while Mont Blanc appears, — still, snowy, and serene —...their unearthly forms Pile around it, ice and rock ; 67 Chamouni was reached on this second day at six o'clock. A visit to the Glacier des Bossons, which...

...men, he was in his maturity aware of discords there too. Mount Blanc, with its accumulated steeps, is A desert peopled by the storms alone, Save when the eagle brings some hunter's bone, And the wolf tracks her there — how hideously Its shapes are heaped around! rude, bare, and high, Ghastly and...

...at the centre in a crown of peaks encircling a magnificent snowfield. This is Mount Haramouk : "... Still, snowy and serene, Its subject mountains their...that spread And wind among the accumulated steeps." In the early morning the valleys which lead up to it are full of mystery. For they are veiled by the...

...pencil. Revision of 57, followed by 58-63 ('Driven like a homeless cloud . . . Mont Blanc appears ... Its subject mountains their unearthly forms / Pile around it, ice and rock'). 244 (f) In pen. Revision of 63, followed by the rest of the poem, often heavily revised ('broad vales...

...steep to steep That vanishes among the viewless gales! Far, far above, piercing the infinite sky, 60 Mont Blanc appears, - still, snowy, and serene Its...accumulated steeps; A desert peopled by the storms alone, And the wolf tracks her there - how hideously Its shapes are heaped around! rude, bare, and high, ?o...

...serene — Its subject mountains their unearthK forms Pile around it. ice and rock: hroad vales hetween Of frozen floods. unfathomable deeps. Blue as the...that spread And wind among the accumulated steeps l60-66l. Percy Shelley is offering an image of true substance here: we must remember that this vast...

...silence as the "things for ever speaking" down below are. Far above, piercing the infinite sky, Mount Blanc appears, — still, snowy, and serene — Its subject mountains their unearthly forms Pile round it, ice and rock; broad vales between Of frozen floods, unfathomable deeps, Blue as the overhanging...

...Mont Blanc in Shelley's scene is not just resistant to form, but a vigorous agent of its destruction. Its "subject mountains their unearthly forms / Pile around it, ice and rock," forming a "desart peopled by the storms alone" (62-67): —how hideously Its shapes are heaped around!...

...PRESS t£ ) OF THE IMAGINATION 'Far, far above, piercing the infinite sky, Mont Blanc appears-stil snowy, and serene. Its subject mountains their unearthly...vales between of frozen floods, unfathomable deeps." PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Mont Blanc 90000 9 '780195"309553' ISBN 0-19-530955-3 ...