A Study of Mythological Fragrance in P.B. Shelley's Mont Blanc and the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

The present paper examines the mythological structure of P. B. Shelley’s poems "Mont Blanc" and "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty". Between Alastor and The Revolt, two poems need special mention: Mont Blanc and the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, both written during Shelley’s second visit to Switzerland in 1816. The study of these poems is necessary for the right understanding of The Revolt of Islam and Prometheus Unbound. As Woodberry points out, they are in certain respects the “forerunners of the main lines of thought in Prometheus Unbound.”1 Shelley’s visit abroad deepened his interest in nature, which later developed in almost all his mature poems, bringing out the significance of these poems.