Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month.Become a Plus Member The sonnet “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, rose again this week. A trailer ...
Nearly two centuries ago, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley imagined the shattered monument of a once-powerful ruler bearing the ...
If you struggle to memorize whole poems, as some of us do, it’s still efficacious to remember bits and pieces, to treasure up and produce at need. Into every life, at some time or other, will surely ...
Breaking Bad wins the award for most poetic TV show promo ever. The final episodes of the series, beginning Aug. 11, are heralded by a haunting reading of "Ozymandias" by Bryan Cranston, aka Walter ...
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Ozymandias on the Potomac
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 ...
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