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Jun 12, 2017 · 1. ‘ Ozymandias ’. Published in The Examiner on 11 January 1818, ‘Ozymandias’ is perhaps Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most celebrated and best-known poem, concluding with the haunting and resounding lines: ‘“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay.
The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify English Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair.
Ozymandias. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read.
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed. The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until. Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the most significant English poets, a key figure in the Romantic poetry movement of England. Born in 1792 and tragically passing away in 1822 at the age of twenty-nine, Shelley’s influence on poetry is profound.
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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley remains one of the most celebrated and influential figures of the Romantic era in English literature. He is recognized for his passionate, lyrical poetry, often infused with intense emotion and radical political ideals. Shelley's work explores themes of love, beauty, nature, and the pursuit of freedom ...
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