𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱" 𝗯𝘆 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 -

Shelley's revision of Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound" as one element of his argument for artistic freedom is a massive (but hardly epic) poem, full of un-subtle characterizations and a head-scratching conclusion.

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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱” 𝗯𝘆 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘆 𝗕𝘆𝘀𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 -

Classic, yes, but Shelley's long poem works overhard to propound its argument amid a myth made melodrama.

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Asia: Who made the living world?

Demogorgon: God.

Asia: Who made all that it contains -- thought, reason, will, imagination?

Demogorgon: God, Almighty God.

Asia: Who made that sense which, when the winds of spring in rarest visitation, or the voice of one beloved heard in youth alone, fills the faint eyes with falling tears, which dim the radiant looks of unbewailing flowers, and leaves this peopled earth a solitude when it returns no more?

Demogorgon: Merciful God.

Asia: And who made terror, madness, crime, remorse... in howling and keen shrieks, day after day, and Hell, or the sharp fear of Hell?

Demogorgon: He reigns.