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Prometheus Unbound

American  

noun

  1. a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.


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What fitter monument could Shelley have than Prometheus Unbound, bearing the torch of freedom?

From Time Magazine Archive

An effort of memory is required to recall that the man under discussion is the author of Adonais and Prometheus Unbound.

From Time Magazine Archive

A favorite motto of his was a quotation from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; one should, he said, ...hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the same way, the conflict in Hyperion is not one between light and darkness, the ideal and mere might, as in Prometheus Unbound.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley

In "Prometheus Unbound" there is even greater achievement in the presentation of this world conflict; and there Cain triumphs and Beatrice is purified.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

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