ShelleyвЂ™s poem bought more readers and influenced greatly due to its appreciated anthologized work. Sooner, the Shelley published first his poem in a periodical, The Examiner, earlier than Smith. Egyptian King Ramses II, whom the Greeks called вЂњOzymandias.вЂќ. That statue was actually an image of 13th-century B.C. That partially-destroyed statue was making its way to London from Egypt when Percy Shelley and his friend Horace Smith decided to have a friendly sonnet competition about the recent discovery. Belzoni was a famous Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. Background of the poem: authorвЂ™s influence in writing Ozymandias On Boxing Day 1817, travellers' reports were released which was about of Giovanni Belzoni's success (where the French had failed) in removing the 'half sunk and shattered visage' of the so-called 'Young Memnon' from the Ramesseum at Thebes. But on July 8, 1822, Percy Shelley was drowned in a storm while attempting to sail from Leghorn to La Spezia, Italy. Throughout the years, the couple produced their own major works. And that was the time Shelley and Mary officially got married. Later, they discovered that Harriet, the former lover of Percy Shelley, committed suicide. When they got broke, they decided to head back to England and then move to Lake Geneva where Mary finished her novel, Frankenstein.

Later, he had fallen for the daughter of William, Mary.

He met a British philosopher William Godwin who influenced him in one of his published works. At the age of nineteen, Shelley eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook and went back writing and studying.

His publication was followed by a pamphlet of burlesque verse, вЂњPosthumous Fragments of Margaret NicholsonвЂќ and вЂњOriginal Poetry by Victor and CazireвЂќ Being expelled after circulating his publication, вЂњThe Necessity of AtheismвЂќ left him in dire financial straits. He attended Eton College for six year beginning in 1804 where he started writing poetry and published his Gothic novel, Zastrozzi and then went on to Oxford University. He was one of the best known English Romantic poets and considered as one of the finest lyric poets in the English language that shares his political and social views. Ozymandias About the author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on Augat Field Place near Horsham, Sussex, England.

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