ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Revolt of Islam (1818) is a poem in twelve cantos composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1817. The poem was originally published under the title Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century by Charles and James Ollier in December 1817.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Revolt of Islam was a revision of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Laon and Cynthia, an attempt to write an epic poem in the style of Edmund Spenser’s poem The Faerie Queene (1590).

Detailed explanation-3: -His other major works include the verse drama The Cenci (1819) and long poems such as Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1815), Julian and Maddalo (1819), Adonais (1821), Prometheus Unbound (1820)-widely considered his masterpiece-Hellas (1822), and his final, unfinished work, The Triumph of Life (1822).