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On a 2008 poetry reading tour that took me from Turin to London, I decided to take a detour via both Courmayeur in northern Italy, and then Chamonix in southern France, so I could see Mont Blanc, tallest mountain in the European Union, and the subject of the 1817 poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. For Shelley, Mont Blanc was a symbol of Romantic 'sublime', that which delineates the limits of human comprehensibility, and the powers of the imagination. The sections here were read on the balcony of my hotel room, and are taken from the lines 60-83 & 96-144 in the poem. Please excuse the rough and ready nature of the vid, recorded on a rudimentary camera back in the day. (See here for the reading from Chamonix http://goo.gl/JggfG)