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“Ozymandias” considers the relationship between an artist and his creation. Try writing a poem that offers your own view of the artistic process. Pick a piece of art—a painting, a sculpture, a song—and imagine the artist’s act of creation.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley’s contribution was “Ozymandias,” one of the...
- Ozymandias
Ozymandias. July 8, 2022. View the full text of the poem in...
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
This poem is in the public domain. Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose literary career was marked with controversy due to his views on religion, atheism, socialism, and free love, is known as a talented lyrical poet and one of the major figures of English romanticism.
In antiquity, Ozymandias (Ὀσυμανδύας, Osymandýas) was a Greek name for the pharaoh Ramesses II (r. 1279–1213 BC), derived from a part of his throne name, Usermaatre. In 1817, Shelley began writing the poem "Ozymandias", after the British Museum acquired the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II ...
“Ozymandias” is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley wrote “Ozymandias” in 1817 as part of a poetry contest with a friend and had it published in The Examiner in 1818 under the pen name Glirastes.
‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Bio | Poems) describes a traveler’s reaction to the half-buried, worn-out statue of the great pharaoh, Ramses II. In this poem, the speaker describes meeting a traveler “from an antique land.”
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Shelley’s contribution was “Ozymandias,” one of the best-known sonnets in European literature. In addition to the Diodorus passage, Shelley must have recalled similar examples of boastfulness in the epitaphic tradition.
Percy Bysshe Shelley. Track 38 on The Complete Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 2. This classic sonnet uses a decaying statue of Ramesses II, also called Ozymandias, as a symbol of...
