By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Percy Shelley (1792-1822) wrote a considerable amount of poetry in his short life, as well as penning pamphlets such as The Necessity of Atheism (which got him expelled from Oxford) and ‘A Defence of Poetry’ (which contains his famous declaration that ‘poets are the […]
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A Short Analysis of Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’
An analysis of one of Percy Shelley’s most famous poems by Dr Oliver Tearle Published in The Examiner on 11 January 1818, ‘Ozymandias’ is perhaps Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most celebrated and best-known poem. Given its status as a great poem, a few words by way of analysis might help to […]