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I.
THE DRAMA AND THE TIME.
Shelley's lyrical drama, the Prometheus Unbound, is unique in the great cycle of English song. From the larger part of that song it is distinguished at once by an audacious idealism. Generalizations arc dangerous; yet we may surely say that the dominant trend of our sturdy English literature has been towards realism. In the Middle Ages, English Chaucer sings with f... More

I.
THE DRAMA AND THE TIME.
Shelley's lyrical drama, the Prometheus Unbound, is unique in the great cycle of English song. From the larger part of that song it is distinguished at once by an audacious idealism. Generalizations arc dangerous; yet we may surely say that the dominant trend of our sturdy English literature has been towards realism. In the Middle Ages, English Chaucer sings with frank and buoyant vigor o/ the fair green earth beneath him and the men and women at his side, while Italian Dante penetrates with fervid passion the spiritual spheres open to mediaeval vision, and brings back strange messages from the souls of the lost and of the blessed. The Elizabethan imagination claps a girdle round the earth, but Tarely soars into the heavens. It is the German genius, not the English, which expresses the struggle of the human soul in a shadowy protagonist, embodiment of the symbolism of the ages, and replaces a Hamlet known to history by a legendary Faust. The idealism of Mi

Table of Contents

Preface >�; Introduction :; I, The Drama and the Time ix; II A Study of the Myth xxvii; III The Drama as a Work of Art xlii; Shelley's Preface 3; Prometheus Unbound 9; Suggestions towards a Comparison of Prometheus Unbound with the Prometheus Bound of JEschylus 121; Notes o MS; Extracts from Criticisms on Prometheus Unbound 167; Bibliography of Prometheus Unbound 171

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