A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prometheus Unbound

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Topic

The human condition

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

Prometheus Unbound

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Prometheus Unbound." Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1820, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Prometheus Unbound." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 4, sc. 1.

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There's not a string attuned to mirth
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

Current Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.

William Blake

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Topic
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Author

William Blake
Source
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Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1805 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." Songs of Innocence and Experience, with Other Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866.

Current Citation

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