Queen Mab

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Queen Mab is an early philosophical poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that presents his radical views on religion, politics, and social justice through a visionary dream narrative.

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instanceOf philosophical poem
poem
author Percy Bysshe Shelley
authorBeliefExpressed materialist philosophy
necessitarianism
contains extensive prose notes
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticizes Christianity
commercial exploitation
hereditary monarchy
property-based social order
war
dateWritten 1812
dedicatedTo Harriet Westbrook Shelley
firstEditionType privately printed
genre philosophical poetry
visionary poem
influenced later socialist and anarchist movements
radical political thought in 19th-century Britain
influencedBy Enlightenment rationalism
French Revolution
William Godwin
initialCirculation limited
language English
laterReception important text for freethinkers
literaryForm narrative poem
mainCharacter Ianthe
Queen Mab (fairy spirit)
meter blank verse
narrativeDevice dream vision
notableFeature extensive argumentative footnotes
radical political and religious content
partOf Romantic literature
periodInAuthorCareer early work
portrays vision of a future egalitarian society
publicationYear 1813
setting cosmic journey through time and space
structure nine cantos
theme atheism
critique of monarchy
critique of organized religion
economic inequality
free love
materialism
politics
religion
social justice
utopian future
vegetarianism
war and militarism

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