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Prometheus Unbound

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noun

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


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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

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

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

One does not feel that Shelley's mind is even yet its own master in the firmer and maturer picture which concludes the third act of Prometheus Unbound.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel

The visionary drama of Prometheus Unbound, which had haunted, yet eluded him so long, suddenly took life and shape, and stood before him, a vivid reality.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas