The poems were published before the statue arrived in Britain. The book Les Ruines, ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires (1791) by Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757-1820), first published in an English translation as The Ruins, or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (London: Joseph Johnson, 1792) by James Marshall, was an influence on Shelley.
The statue's repute in Western Europe preceded its arrival: Napoleon had tried to acquire it for France after his 1798 expedition to Egypt. The statue had been expected to arrive in London in 1818, but did not arrive until 1821.
Shelley had explored similar themes in his 1813 work Queen Mab. Shelley typically published his works anonymously or using a pseudonym.
The fragment of the statue's head and torso had been removed in 1816 from the mortuary temple of Ramesses (the Ramesseum) at Thebes by the Italian adventurer Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
The name was a reference to his wife Mary, whose nickname was "do[o]rmouse". ==Writing, publication and text== ===Publication history=== The banker and political writer Horace Smith spent the Christmas season of 1817–1818 with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley.
It was first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.
The statue's repute in Western Europe preceded its arrival: Napoleon had tried to acquire it for France after his 1798 expedition to Egypt. The statue had been expected to arrive in London in 1818, but did not arrive until 1821.
Hunt admired Shelley's poetry and many of his other works, such as The Revolt of Islam, were published in The Examiner. Shelley's poem was published on 11 January 1818 under the pen name "Glirastes".
The statue's repute in Western Europe preceded its arrival: Napoleon had tried to acquire it for France after his 1798 expedition to Egypt. The statue had been expected to arrive in London in 1818, but did not arrive until 1821.
The poem was included the following year in Shelley's collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published in 1826. 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.
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2 (Summer, 1998), pp. 217–233. == External links == Audiorecording of "Ozymandias" by the BBC. Ozymandias Summary, Themes, and Analysis Ozymandias - Annotated text + analyses aligned to Common Core Standards Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1818 poems Ancient Egypt in fiction Sonnets Ramesses II 1818 in England Historical poems
24 ("Archeology of Literature: Tracing the Old in the New"), 2004, pp. 121–148. Johnstone Parr (1957).
The poem is altered to be recursive, and opens with "I met a traveller from an antique land who said: "I met a traveller from an antique land who said: "I met a traveller from an antique land who said..." In the 2017 film Covenant, part of the poem is quoted by the antagonist, David.
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