Poet · 1792 – 1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Little-Known Facts
- He was expelled from Oxford for co-writing a pamphlet defending atheism.
- His Ozymandias was written in a friendly sonnet-writing contest with a friend.
Myths & Misconceptions
What is Ozymandias about?
Ozymandias describes the shattered statue of a forgotten ancient king, a meditation on how even the proudest power crumbles into dust over time.