Writing “Supreme Reality”: Coleridge’s Religious Musings and Shelley’s Queen Mab

This article argues that Shelley’s experimentation with prophecy in Queen Mab closely connects him to the Coleridge of Religious Musings. Prophecy, Coleridge’s hands, is a means social criticism as well divine calling. Shelley relished such doubleness, transforming into an imaginative mode marks his entire poetic career. Musings, its multi-faceted preoccupations, spoke early ambitions philosophical poet Mab. Musings was model for he would return keen sense own mastery twist on prophetic mode.