"There is No God"

The poet revises his own print edition of Queen Mab.

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"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," one of PBS's most widely-anthologized poems, is also among the early published works that he composed while staying in Geneva with Byron in 1816. The poem first appeared in Leigh Hunt's Examiner, in 1817, but was republished in the Rosalind and Helen volume of poems that PBS published in England in 1819. You'll find a copy of The Quarterly Review's opinion of that volume in your course reader. Canonically speaking, the poem has been treated as representative of PBS's poetic concerns. Here is an article on Shelley's use of the hymn and on hymn as a genre.

I find that word "like" in the opening section fascinating.

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