...out of all that we observe (II. iv. 72-82). These are the motions that make Prometheus for Shelley "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends" (Preface, p. 133). Hence, because this continuous, self-transforming, and frame-breaking energy is...

...judging him "a more poetical character" than "the Hero of Paradise Lost." For "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." Here, then, is the romantic manifesto: both Satan...

...All human skill and science was Prometheus' gift. How then can one understand that Prometheus, this 'type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends', as Shelley says, be both punished by Zeus for his...

...Prometheus as the champion of mankind, Zeus (and God) as the tyrannical oppressor. "Prometheus," he wrote, "is the type of the highest perfection of moral and...and truest motives to the best and noblest ends." A radical, Prometheus is ready To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker...

...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 mountainous...

..."imaginary being" of the most "poetical character," described in the preface to Prometheus Unbound as "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." Prometheus's gift of fire makes human consciousness...

...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...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends. (205) That the later Mary Shelley did not entirely share her husband's attitude toward Prometheus as...

...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...purest 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...

...repressive, authoritarian image of God until it is finally abandoned by mankind. Yet while Prometheus may 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" (Preface), he evidently lacks certain important mental...

...question of its own unbinding, a question that makes Prometheus, in the words of Shelley's Preface, "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."6 For Prometheus to be so impelled does not mean that...