The sonnet “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, rose again this week. A trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad featured Walter White reciting the poem, first published in 1818, while a ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Just off the highway heading south on I-27 out of Amarillo are two gigantic legs in ...

For some quirky reason, one of my favorite poems of all time has been “Ozymandias” by the eccentric English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lived from 1792-1822. Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is ...

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Watchmen‘s third episode and Lady Trieu. HBO “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Adrian Veidt took his superhero name from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ...

Perhaps a Walt Whitman poem would have been more appropriate, given the role that a copy of Leaves Of Grass played in the turning point of its last season, but the teaser for the forthcoming final ...

The latest poetic reference, read over shots of the New Mexico landscape, seems to hint at the fate of the show's protagonist. By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, East Coast Poetry has long been a part of ...