Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. The sonnet “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, rose again this week. A trailer for the final ...

We know that our works, too, are kingdoms built on sand. And sometimes it’s good to quote poetry to our friends, to remind them. If you struggle to memorize whole poems, as some of us do, it’s still ...

In Breaking Bad's promotional material for its final run of episodes, there was a video that featured Bryan Cranston reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's short but powerful poem "Ozymandias" over stark ...

America’s Petrol-Powered Hegemony At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the inevitable decline ...

A New York-based company is developing a "Breaking Bad Ozymandias" opera, The Wrap reports. One World Symphony is designing a mini opera based on both Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” and the AMC ...