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Ozymandias" (/ ˌ ɒ z ɪ ˈ m æ n d i ə s / OZ-im-AN-dee-əs) [1] is the title of a sonnet published in 1818 by Horace Smith (1779–1849). Smith wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley .
The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.
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Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems is a poem collection by Percy Bysshe Shelley published in 1819. The collection also contains the poems "Lines written on the Euganean Hills", "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", and the sonnet "Ozymandias". The collection was published by C. and J. Ollier in London. [1]
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The sub-title for the final chapter of this story arc comes from the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which includes the line, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" [25]
John Neal – Battle of Niagara, a Poem, without Notes; and Goldau, or the Maniac Harper [16] Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ozymandias; The Revolt of Islam (so dated, but issued December 1817) Elizabeth Thomas (anonymous) – The Confession, or, The Novice of St Clare, and other Poems