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 ...

Yet Percy Shelley for Our Times reveals an even more farsighted writer, one whose poetic methodology went beyond the didactic powers of prophetic art. Not historicist, presentist, or transhistorical, ...

Hip-Hop star Akala and poet Hannah Lowe explore Shelley’s poem ‘Ozymandias’ and how it illustrates the transience of power. The clip uses Anthony Gormley's artwork "Another Place" on Crosby ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the essay 'On Life' (1819), stated 'We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life'. Ross Wilson uses this statement as a starting point to explore Shelley's ...

"As first published, it is accompanied by ten minor poems (Stanzas, Sonnets, etc.) and the first part of The Daemon of The World... In an article on Young Poets in The Examiner for December 1, ...

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.

The Younger Memnon may be most famous because it is said to have inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to write the poem "Ozymandias" — the Greek name for Ramesses II. Egyptology was a ...