Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson

Under the title Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson in 1810 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Thomas Jefferson Hogg published a collection of poems that they foisted the estate of the mentally deranged assassin Margaret Nicholson.

The work brings the anti-monarchical and anti- war views expressed, which evolved in 1812 Shelley Queen Mab and summarized in Ozymandias. Kings were " just dust ," it says here, and the " eventful last day " will " make all the same ." ( " Kings are but dust --- the load eventful day / Will level all and make them loose Their sway ;/ Will dash the scepter from the Monarch 's hand, / And from the warrior's grasp wrest the ensanguin'd brand. " )

According to Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat 250 copies of the collection were printed and sold. Only in 1877 there was a new edition, privately printed.