“Song of the Spirits,” Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1820
This poem from Prometheus Unbound, Act II, Scene 3, accompanied the painting collages Deep Down (1988) and Autumn (1988) in the exhibition "Dorothea Tanning: Murmurs" at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, organized in collaboration with Alison Jacques Gallery, London (May 11 - June 27, 2015). The show explored echoes of myths and legends in Tanning’s work through poetry, with examples of poems that were especially meaningful to the artist.
J. D. McClatchy wrote a tribute to Dorothea Tanning for the show and recorded the poems included in the gallery. View a gallery of images here and listen to his reading of this poem below.
