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Prometheus Unbound:
The Quintessential Philosophy of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Three years before his death, Shelley wrote what many consider his masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound. Considering Shelley's rebellious nature, the choice of the authority defying Prometheus as hero is not surprising. For Shelley, Prometheus came to symbolize the mind or soul of man in its highest potential. Two of Shelley's favorite themes lie at the heart of Prometheus Unbound: the external tyranny of rulers, customs, or superstitions is the main enemy, and that inherent human goodness will, eventually, eliminate evil from the world and usher in an eternal reign of transcendent love. It is, perhaps, in Prometheus Unbound that Shelley most completely expresses these ideas.
C.S. Lewis deemed Prometheus Unbound the best long poem written in English in the 19th century, the poem was Percy Bysshe Shelley's attempt to fulfill an ambition general to the Romantic poets: to write a great long poem(Pittock).......

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