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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

His two dramas, the "Cenci" and "Prometheus Unbound," were issued, the former in 1819, the latter in 1821.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

It appears to us that Shelley's principles are the same in Prometheus Unbound as in Queen Mab.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

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