Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, ...
Bill Wyman recites Rudyard Kipling's 'If', a poem his Gran read to him as a child. 9. Percy Bysshe Shelley's Poetical Essay, read by Vanessa Redgrave Admittedly this is not one of Shelley's most ...
Hannah Lowe:So I think in the short poem within the sonnet, Shelley delivers quite a complicated portrait of the statue depicting the real man. Akala:Yeah. Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
The Younger Memnon may be the most well-known because it reportedly inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to create the poem "Ozymandias," which was the Greek name for Ramesses II.