Prometeusz Wyzwolony
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: **Polish - English Text**
At the dawn of Romantic literature, Percy Bysshe Shelley unleashed one of the most audacious and philosophically charged dramatic poems in the English canon — Prometheus Unbound — a visionary lyrical drama that chronicles the titan Prometheus's defiance against the tyrannical god Jupiter, transforming an ancient myth into a blazing manifesto of human liberation and moral courage. Set across a cosmic landscape of mountains, oceans, and the spirit world, the work presents a radical reimagining of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, centering on themes of oppression, free will, and the redemptive power of love, as Prometheus — chained and tormented yet unbroken — ultimately triumphs not through violence, but through steadfast moral resolve. Shelley's style is nothing short of incandescent: soaring verse, richly symbolic imagery, and a philosophical depth that draws equally from Platonic idealism and revolutionary politics, arguing that the liberation of the human spirit is both possible and inevitable. This Polish edition, translated and annotated by Leszek Słektorowicz and published by Wydawnictwo Literackie Kraków, makes this cornerstone of Romantic poetry accessible to Polish readers, preserving the grandeur and intellectual fire of Shelley's original. For anyone captivated by the collision of myth, politics, and poetry, this edition poses an irresistible question: what does it truly mean to be free?
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Wydawnictwo Literackie Kraków
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: **Polish - English Text**
At the dawn of Romantic literature, Percy Bysshe Shelley unleashed one of the most audacious and philosophically charged dramatic poems in the English canon — Prometheus Unbound — a visionary lyrical drama that chronicles the titan Prometheus's defiance against the tyrannical god Jupiter, transforming an ancient myth into a blazing manifesto of human liberation and moral courage. Set across a cosmic landscape of mountains, oceans, and the spirit world, the work presents a radical reimagining of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, centering on themes of oppression, free will, and the redemptive power of love, as Prometheus — chained and tormented yet unbroken — ultimately triumphs not through violence, but through steadfast moral resolve. Shelley's style is nothing short of incandescent: soaring verse, richly symbolic imagery, and a philosophical depth that draws equally from Platonic idealism and revolutionary politics, arguing that the liberation of the human spirit is both possible and inevitable. This Polish edition, translated and annotated by Leszek Słektorowicz and published by Wydawnictwo Literackie Kraków, makes this cornerstone of Romantic poetry accessible to Polish readers, preserving the grandeur and intellectual fire of Shelley's original. For anyone captivated by the collision of myth, politics, and poetry, this edition poses an irresistible question: what does it truly mean to be free?