Prometheus Unbound
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
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What fitter monument could Shelley have than Prometheus Unbound, bearing the torch of freedom?
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The last review to appear during Shelley’s lifetime by Hunt was that of Prometheus Unbound in three numbers of The Examiner of 1822.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound," Browning's "The Ring and the Book," and Landor's "Marcellus and Hannibal" are all dramatic, but they cannot be included in any definition of the species of tragedy.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
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