Queen Mab (poem)

Title page of the limited first edition printed by Shelley himself, 1813.
Original leaf from Shelley's copy of Queen Mab, 1813, in the Ashley Library.[1]

Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet.[2]

After substantial reworking, a revised edition of a portion of the text was published in 1816 under the title The Daemon of the World.[3]

  1. ^ "The Ashley Library". The Times. 11 September 1937. p. 14. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  2. ^ Mark Sandy, University of Durham. "Queen Mab." The Literary Encyclopedia. 20 Sep. 2002. The Literary Dictionary Company. Archived 28 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 30 November 2007.
  3. ^ The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Hutchinson ed., Oxford University Press, London. 1961. p.762