...the myths of Prometheus and of Pandora we shall see it most attractively brought out Prometheus. — "Prometheus is ... the type of the highest perfection...and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives, to the best and noblest ends." These words of the poet Shelley5 give us a clear...

...purpose in Prometheus is to ' present beautiful idealisms of moral excellence ' ; the hero is to be the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. Bat, in the Defence, we see how this type is to be...

...magnificent fiction with a religious feeling it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountain8 ous...

...language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary. . . . Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends." To his sufferings and endurance Prometheus is conceived...

...purpose in Prometheus is to ' present beautiful idealisms of moral excellence ' ; the hero is to be the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. But, in the Defence, we see how this type is to be...

...spirit and the wrongs done him, but Prometheus surpasses Satan as a hero, for Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends.40 The psychological significance of the main features of the myth, as Shelley uses it, is absolutely...

...other critics have speculated; even to lean on Shelley's description of Prometheus in his Preface as "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends"2— each of these falls short of the mark insofar as it assumes that the central subject of the...

...and freed for endless good works. In its preface Shelley explains that "Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...and truest motives to the best and noblest ends." 17 To the charge that the poet himself has gotten carried away with "a passion for reforming the world,"...

...mankind', and to show his conflict with Jupiter, the Oppressor, in a new light. He describes Prometheus as 'the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...and truest motives to the best and noblest ends'. Fully to understand the work and its meaning we must recall that Shelley believed that the writers...

...transgressions to fade into the background. Redeemed by years of suffering, Prometheus becomes for Shelley "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends."3 Because Shelley focuses on the glorious conclusion of the Titan's story, rather than the morally...