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Prometheus Unbound

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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

It is this blending of wild hopes and extravagant impatience that inspired and informed the poetry of Shelley, that produced Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam, and Prometheus Unbound.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin

If I really love Shelley, I must believe that in some impersonal sense Prometheus Unbound is superior to The Psalm of Life.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

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