...political analysis of the relation of reform to revolution, and to his entire conception of Prometheus as 'the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and 126 noblest ends' (P 11.473). The key features of this remarkable...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...