![]() Traveller - This is a bit of poetic license, as no such traveller existed. To make the competition fair, both poems were published anonymously because Shelley was much better known as a poet. Both were published in Leigh Hunt’s weekly magazine The Examiner a few weeks apart in January 1818. The archeological discovery of this city and the broken statue inspired Shelley and Smith to write these sonnets in a friendly competition. He also engaged in a major building program, which involved temples, palaces, and even a whole new capital city, Pi-Rameses Aa-nakhtu. During his rule (1279-1213 B.C.E.), Egypt became the dominant military power in the region. Rameses was one of the greatest rulers of the ancient world. Ozymandias - A Greek name for the great Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II, also called the Great (c. The lone and level sands stretch far away. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Wonder like ours, when through the wilderness The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The wonders of my hand. The citys gone! Tell that its sculptor well those passions read I am great Ozymandias, saith the stone,Īnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws ![]() Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Of Rameses the Great inspired the following sonnets in 1817:
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