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Ozymandias
"Ozymandias" (in five syllables: , ; or four: , )〔 The four-syllable pronunciation is used by Shelley to fit the poem's meter.〕 is a sonnet written by English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of ''The Examiner''〔
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in London. It was included the following year in Shelley's collection ''Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems'' (1819)〔 and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published in 1826.〔 "Ozymandias" is regarded as one of Shelley's most famous works and is frequently anthologised.
In antiquity, Ozymandias was a Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. Shelley began writing his poem in 1817, soon after the announcement of the British Museum's acquisition of a large fragment of a statue of Ramesses II from the thirteenth century BC, leading some scholars to believe that Shelley was inspired by this. The 7.25-ton fragment of the statue's head and torso had been removed in 1816 from the mortuary temple of Ramesses at Thebes by Italian adventurer Giovanni Battista Belzoni. It was expected to arrive in London in 1818, but did not arrive until 1821.〔British Museum. (Colossal bust of Ramesses II, 'The Younger Memnon' ). Retrieved 26 November 2015.〕 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 very same title. Smith's poem was first published in ''The Examiner'' a few weeks after Shelley's sonnet. Both poems explore the fate of history and the ravages of time: that all prominent figures and the empires that they build are impermanent and their legacies fated to decay and oblivion.
==Writing and publication history==
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