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...beach near Carrara, Italy, not far from where his body was washed ashore in July, 1822, a colossal monument will be erected to the poet Shelley. It is to be a figure of Prometheus, exceeding 180 feet in height, greater in size than the statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, represented as in Shel- ley's poem* unbound, bearing fire to man. The idea is further expanded by making the shaft, against which the figure stands, into a lighthouse which will throw its signal light far over the Tyrrhenian sea, whose treacherous waters were the poet...
...Prometheus Unbound. Prometheus, legendary hero, brought fire to mortals and as punishment was chained to Mount Caucasus by Zeus, where an eagle by day devoured his liver, which grew again during the night. Aeschylus, Greek tragic poet, wrote two dramas: 1) Prometheus Bound, telling this story, and 2) Prometheus Unbound, telling of the deliverance of the hero by Hercules after a reconciliation of the former with Zeus. Shelley, in his poem, changes the plot somewhat- makes Prometheus an even more adamantine hero who refuses to bow to Zeus, overthrows him, liberates mankind...
PEER GYNT? Ibsen's lyric of rebellion and ambition. Joseph Schildkraut plays the magnificent, ineffectual rebel. He drinks the joys of insurrection and finally tastes its dregs because he is not great enough to be a Prometheus or a Satan...
...Newell Sp. W. T. Ames '24, Pianoforte. String quartette Interludium in Modo Antico Glazounoff Minuet Randall Thompson '20 First movement from Quartette in D major C. Franck D. T. Gammons '18, First Violin. Amory Leonard, Second Violin. Professor F. A. Saunders, Viola. W. T. Richards '21, Cello. Prometheus Scriabin Two pianos. A. L. Steinert '22 and Mrs. Carl Brandt...
Ancient and Modern Conceptions of Prometheus...