Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley: a close look at the poem

A well-known sonnet about a famous Pharaoh

Ozymandias is one of the best-known works by the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). It was written in 1817 at a time when Percy and Mary Shelley were living in England, before moving permanently to Italy the following year.