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Shelley's ,,Ozymandias"
Words for eternity

,,I am Osymandias, king of kings; if anyone would know how great I am, and where I lie, let him excel any of my works"

These are the words engraved on the tombstone of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II. Ozymandias is undoubtedly one of both Percy Bysshe Shelley's and romantic poetry's best known works. It was written in December of 1817 during a writing contest and it was published in 1818.
Shelley was part of the Romantic Movement that originated in 18th century Europe. The Romantics, including Shelley, are characterized by a strong sense of individualism. They also typify themselves as stressing the beauty of nature, death, and their love for Shakespearean works. Another strong theme in Romanticism is escapism. They often imagined exotic locations and the distant past was revalued. ,,Ruins were sentimentalized as iconic of the action of Nature on the works of man, and mythic and legendary material which would previously......

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