English Literature

 Ozymandias is a poem that ruminates on the ephemeral nature of power, and was originally published in The Examiner  (a British news publication) on the 11th January 1818. Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Sussex, England on the 4th August 1792. Shelley was born into some affluence (wealth), and received his education first at Syon House then Eton (the most famous and elite boarding school for boys in England) and completed his education at University College, Oxford. A radical and liberal in his political and social views, he was expelled from Oxford after refusing to apologise for the publication of The Necessity of Atheism .  Shelley continued with a somewhat non-conventional approach when he eloped with Harriet Westbrook, who has vastly his social inferior. Enraged, his Father and Grandfather cut him off from the family money, hoping it would force him to conform. Instead he travelled to Dublin in Ireland, where he protested against the English hegemony, and pri