Ozymandias

Ozymandias

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pages

36

Rating

4.28

Year

1817

FictionPoetryClassicsSchoolBritish LiteratureRead For School

Description

"I met a traveler..."

With these words, the English poet Percy Shelley transported his readers to ancient Egypt.

Ozymandias is the great pharaoh Ramses II, whose statue Shelley imagined lying broken in the desert and whose name he chose as the title for his poem.

In this unique interpretation of Ozymandias, Shelley and the traveler come to life in an extraordinary gallery of dreamlike illustrations.

With an introduction by British poet Gerard Benson and notes for further reading, this book opens up a classic of Romantic poetry to children.

Sculptor and illustrator Theo Gayer-Anderson lives in Egypt.