Ozymandias

Name: Ozymandias
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Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN: 9789775325822

by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Theo Gayer-Anderson

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36 pages1999Hoopoe BooksISBN 9789775325822

fiction historical fiction dystopian

About this book

A picture book edition of the poem. The poem, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817. It is one of the most famous poems of P.B. Shelley. It was composed in competition with Shelley's friend, Horace Smith who wrote another sonnet on the same topic named Ozymandias. The theme of this sonnet is the decline of all leaders of all the empires they built. However mighty they have been in their time, history has destroyed them. Ozymandias was another name for Ramesses, a great Pharaoh king of ancient Egypt.

Publication Details

Publisher: Hoopoe Books
Published: 1999
Pages: 36
ISBN: 9789775325822
Language: en

About Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language. His major works, however, are long visionary poems which included Prometheus Unbound, Alastor, Adonaïs, The Revolt of Islam, and the unfinished The Triumph of Life. The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820) were dramatic plays in five and four acts respectively. He also wrote the Gothic novels Zastrozzi (1810) and St. Irvyne (1811) and the short works The Assassins (1814) and The Coliseum (1817). Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley