(READ: TIME’s recap of ‘Ozymandias’) The poem tells the story of a traveller who has seen an ancient monument in the desert. The giant legs are all that remains standing of what was once a ...

The sonnet “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, rose again this week. A trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad featured Walter White reciting the poem, first published in 1818 ...

Percy Bysshe Shelly turned the despot Ozymandias into a memorable sonnet about tyranny and time. Inspired by the poem, sculptor Douglas Kornfeld created a monumental red figure named Ozymandias ...

"Ozymandias" is the Greek name for Ramesses II and was the inspiration and name of an 1818 poem by Percy Shelley. A plaque near the gigantic legs reads: In 1819, while on their horseback trek over ...