![]() ![]() ![]() He married 16 year old Harriet Westbrook, a stormy marriage which lasted five years before Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine. He was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, from where he was sent down for circulating a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism. Shelley was a Romantic Genius who spent most of his short life wasting his immense talent. ![]() The lone and level sands stretch far away. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: Which yet survive, stamped on those lifeless things, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,Īnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone The statue of Rameses II, also known as Ozymandias, in the British Museum which inspired Shelley to write his poem Ozymandias 1817 ![]()
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