| David Colbert - 2006 - 180 pages
...Hero of Paradise Lost interfere with the interest [of the reader]. . . . 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. Freed from the ill will that greets any mention of... | |
| Carol Dougherty - 2006 - 184 pages
...than a lament on its limitations. Redeemed by many years of suffering, Shelley's Prometheus has become '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'. As the work opens, Prometheus appears 'nailed to... | |
| Thomas R. Frosch - 2007 - 368 pages
...latter exceed all measure." But Prometheus is a Satan cleansed of aggression and self-glorification, "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" (.R, 206-7). Having compared Prometheus to Satan,... | |
| Joseph Lanza - 2007 - 384 pages
...1820 lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound. In its preface, Shelley writes, "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." Shelley's hubris went unchecked beforehand when,... | |
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