...whom she gives a home, and whose radical pessimism both defeats and energizes her more Shelleyan will to "hope, till Hope creates/ From its own wreck the thing it contemplates" (PU:IV.573-4). Shelley's bold insertion of two fictitious women into a historical narrative makes Valperga...

...during these coming years as though freedom would win at Armageddon and so — you remember Shelly: hope till hope creates / From its own wreck the thing it contemplates." If not, if only despair and defeat were felt and expressed, then victory would be served to the forces...

...lines from Demogorgon's last speech about the power of love, forgiveness, and hope: "To defy power which seems omnipotent — /To love, and bear —...creates / From its own wreck the thing it contemplates" (81/309). This kind of hope is called "Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free."37 This element...

...suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than Death or Night, To defy Power which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope,...creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Only by such means could the millennium be re-attained, for in Shelley's view violence would change...

...suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope...creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,...

...Facets of Hope F. BERYL PILKINGTON Who against hope believed in hope. Romans 4:18 (King James Version) To hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound. Act iv, 1. 573 The subject of hope has been widely discussed in the popular...

...suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night: To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear, to hope...creates From its' own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,...

...the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free. This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.14 20 "/ Strove to Seize the Inmost Form " The influence of the three romantics, Blake, Wordsworth,...

...a Turgenev struggling in private doubt to create a new form of theater with A Month in the Country* "To hope, till hope creates from its own wreck, the thing it contemplates," Shelley wrote. Never seeing his one great play staged as he imagined, the despairing Turgenev looked...

...than death or night, To defy power which seems omnipotent, Never to change, nor falter, nor repent. This is to be good, great and joyous, beautiful and free, This alone, life, joy, empire and victory. My very best regards Nico Brenninkmeyer Nico Brenninkmeyer Unconditional...