<p>Interest in Prometheus revived in the Romantic revolutionary age.  Short poems by Goethe and Byron show his as defiant rebel.  Shelley’s famous Preface to his Prometheus Unbound.  The influence of Milton’s titanic rebel, Satan.  </p>

Interest in Prometheus revived in the Romantic revolutionary age. Short poems by Goethe and Byron show his as defiant rebel. Shelley’s famous Preface to his Prometheus Unbound. The influence of Milton’s titanic rebel, Satan.

Episode 208: Poems about Prometheus as Heroic Rebel, by Goethe and Byron. The Preface to Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.

This podcast is aimed at a non-specialist audience interested in acquiring what Northrop Frye called, in the title of one of his books, an educated imagination. Its materials are drawn from the many courses in literature and mythology that I taught, combined with material from my book The Productions of Time, for which I hope the podcast may provide an accessible introduction, with concrete examples.

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Episode 208: Poems about Prometheus as Heroic Rebel, by Goethe and Byron. The Preface to Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.

Episode 208: Poems about Prometheus as Heroic Rebel, by Goethe and Byron. The Preface to Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.