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Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Expelled from Oxford for a pamphlet on atheism, Percy Bysshe Shelley lived in exile in Italy with Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. There he wrote Prometheus Unbound, “Ode to the West Wind” and “Adonais”, his elegy for Keats. He drowned in a storm off the Italian coast at twenty-nine.

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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias, first published in The Examiner in January 1818; printed as “Sonnet” in Rosalind and Helen (1819), 1818 Verified quote Read its story
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