AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Lord Byron
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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William Woodsworth
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Emily Dickinson
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Detailed explanation-1: -This poem has learning resources. The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify English Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair.
Detailed explanation-2: -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) is often thought of as a rebel and revolutionary. It is appropriate, then, that ‘Ozymandias’ – one of his most famous poems – is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders.
Detailed explanation-3: -A poem to outlast empires. Shelley’s friend the banker Horace Smith stayed with the poet and his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein) in the Christmas season of 1817.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shelley wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith (1779–1849), who also wrote a sonnet on the same topic with the same title.
Detailed explanation-5: -’Ozymandias’ was written by English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).