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The statue fragment known as the Younger Memnon in the British Museum. Shelley began writing the poem "Ozymandias" in 1817, upon anticipation of the arrival in Britain of the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II acquired by Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni from the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramesses II at Thebes. [5]
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. Shelley wrote and published "Ozymandias" in 1818.
Ozymandias is ranked number 25 on Wizard ' s Top 200 Comic Book Characters list and number 21 on IGN's Top 100 Villains list. [1] Veidt made his live-action debut in the 2009 film Watchmen, played by Matthew Goode. An older Adrian Veidt appeared in the 2019 limited television series Watchmen, played by Jeremy Irons.
"Ozymandias" is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. It was originally published in 1958 in Infinity Science Fiction. [1] An interstellar military expedition reaches an unknown planet, where a robot with an incredible memory is found, full of secrets. [2]
Ozymandias" frequently tops polls of the best Breaking Bad episodes. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] [ h ] The episode, watched by 6.4 million viewers—the then-most for the show [ 56 ] —is revered among fans, achieving a perfect 10.0 out of 10 rating on IMDb with over 200,000 votes, putting it at the number one spot for its 'Best TV Episodes' ranking.
There is a similar technological and class ambivalence about the 1846 sonnet on "Illustrated Books and Newspapers". Its argument is that, while the invention of printing had been a step upward from manuscript culture , "this vile abuse of pictured page" as represented by the popular press is an intellectual retreat to infantilism.
ɪ s /) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. [1] The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas , was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats's death (seven weeks earlier).
Ozymandias, a dæmon in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman; Ozymandias "Oz" Mayfair-Richards, a character from American Horror Story: Cult; Ozymandias, a character in James Patterson's 2003 novel The Lake House; Ozymandias, an owl in the 1970s children's fantasy series Ace of Wands; Ozymandias, the main starship in Dino Crisis 3