The 'Younger Memnon' statue of Ramesses II in the British Museum is thought to have inspired which famous poem of P. B. Shelley?
"2014 film """". Ramesses II Ramesses II (variously also spelt Rameses or Ramses ( ""Ra is the one who bore him"" > ); born ; died July or August 1213; reigned 1279–1213), also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom. His successors and later Egyptians called him the ""Great Ancestor"". He is known as Ozymandias in Greek sources ( ""Osymandýas""), from the first part of Ramesses' regnal name, , ""The Maat of Ra is powerful,"
"one of my works."" The poems may have been inspired by the impending arrival in London in 1821 of a colossal statue of Ramesses II, acquired for the British Museum by the Italian adventurer Giovanni Belzoni in 1816. The poems were written and published before the statue arrived in Britain, but the reports of the statue's imminent arrival may have inspired the poem. The statue's repute in Western Europe preceded its actual arrival in Britain, and Napoleon, who at the time of the two poems was imprisoned on St Helena (although the impact of his own rise and fall was"
"a BBC Radio 4 programme by British Museum director Neil MacGregor. Younger Memnon The Younger Memnon is an Ancient Egyptian statue, one of two colossal granite heads from the Ramesseum mortuary temple in Thebes, Upper Egypt. It depicts the Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II wearing the Nemes head-dress with a cobra diadem on top. The damaged statue has since lost its body and lower legs. It is one of a pair that originally flanked the Ramesseum's doorway. The head of the other statue is still found at the temple. The Younger Memnon is 2.7 m high by 2 metres wide"
"Younger Memnon The Younger Memnon is an Ancient Egyptian statue, one of two colossal granite heads from the Ramesseum mortuary temple in Thebes, Upper Egypt. It depicts the Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II wearing the Nemes head-dress with a cobra diadem on top. The damaged statue has since lost its body and lower legs. It is one of a pair that originally flanked the Ramesseum's doorway. The head of the other statue is still found at the temple. The Younger Memnon is 2.7 m high by 2 metres wide (across the shoulders). It weighs 7.25 tons and was cut from"
"still fresh), had previously made an unsuccessful attempt to acquire it for France. Ozymandias ""Ozymandias"" ( ) is the title of two poems published in 1818. English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) wrote a sonnet, first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of ""The Examiner"" in London. It was included the following year in Shelley's collection ""Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems"" (1819) and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published in 1826. ""Ozymandias"" is Shelley's most famous work and is frequently anthologised. Shelley wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and"
"was inspired by this. The 7.25-ton fragment of the statue's head and torso had been removed in 1816 from the mortuary temple of Ramesses (the Ramesseum) at Thebes by Italian adventurer Giovanni Battista Belzoni. It was expected to arrive in London in 1818, but did not arrive until 1821. The banker and political writer Horace Smith spent the Christmas season of 1817–1818 with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley. At this time, members of Shelley's literary circle would sometimes challenge each other to write competing sonnets on a common subject: Shelley, John Keats and Leigh Hunt wrote competing sonnets on"
"Ozymandias ""Ozymandias"" ( ) is the title of two poems published in 1818. English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) wrote a sonnet, first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of ""The Examiner"" in London. It was included the following year in Shelley's collection ""Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems"" (1819) and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published in 1826. ""Ozymandias"" is Shelley's most famous work and is frequently anthologised. Shelley wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith (1779–1849), who also wrote a sonnet on the same"
"the state of slavery in which it is. He prays that this power will bring calm to his life, for he worships it. It has taught him to fear himself and love all mankind. ""Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"" is an 84-line ode that was influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel of sensibility ""Julie, or the New Heloise"" and William Wordsworth's """". Although the theme of the ode, glory's departure, is shared with Wordsworth's ode, Shelley holds a differing view of nature: The second stanza begins with the narrator addressing Intellectual Beauty: But he is not answered, as he reveals in stanza"
"to the forbidding colossus of Percy Bysshe Shelley's ""Ozymandias"". The poem is read aloud in the eponymous episode,""New Colossus"", in the 2016 Netflix web series ""The OA"". The poem was also recited in part in """" and referenced by the title of . The New Colossus ""The New Colossus"" is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level. This poem was written as a donation to"
"of poets, including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets such as Robert Browning, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as well as later W. B. Yeats. Shelley's influential poem ""The Masque of Anarchy"" (1819) calls for nonviolence in protest and political action. It is perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent protest. Mahatma Gandhi's passive resistance was influenced and inspired by Shelley's verse, and Gandhi would often quote the poem to vast audiences. Though John Keats shared Byron and Shelley's radical politics, ""his best poetry is not political"", but is especially noted for its sensuous music and imagery, along with"
"in Shelley's last major work, the verse drama Hellas Queen Mab (poem) Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet. After substantial reworking, a revised edition of a portion of the text was published in 1816 under the title The Daemon of the World. This poem was written early in Shelley's career and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution. It is his first major poem. In this work, he depicts a two-pronged revolt"
"Shelley Memorial The Shelley Memorial is a memorial to the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) at University College, Oxford, England, the college that he briefly attended and from which he was expelled for writing a pamphlet on ""The Necessity of Atheism"". Although Shelley was expelled from the college, he remains one of its most famous alumni and is now held in high honour there. In 2005, the college acquired some of Shelley's letters to further enhance its connection with the poet. The memorial consists of a white marble sculpture of a reclining nude and dead Shelley washed up on"
"Red Shelley Red Shelley is a 1981 work of literary criticism by Paul Foot. In it, the author draws attention to the radical political stance of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, as revealed in poems such as ""Queen Mab"" and ""The Masque of Anarchy"". Foot describes how Shelley, while living in Italy, heard the news of the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. Like Shelley, Foot was an alumnus of University College, Oxford (from which Shelley was expelled for expressing atheist views), and held the poet to be his inspiration in embracing socialism. ""The Masque of Anarchy"", Foot's favourite poem, was"
"and was impressed by ""Alastor""."" ""Alastor"" influenced the poetry of William Butler Yeats, whose own work ""The Wanderings of Oisin"" was influenced by the Shelley poem. Critics have spent a great deal of effort attempting to identify the Poet. The most convincing possibility is William Wordsworth, since the poem is framed with direct quotations from Wordsworth's poetry, and Shelley had a deeply ambivalent reaction to Wordsworth's poetry, as witnessed in his sonnet ""To Wordsworth."" In 1912, Russian composer Nikolai Myaskovsky wrote his symphonic poem ""Alastor, Poème d'après Shelley"" (Op. 14) based on Shelley's work. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude"
"Memnon"" of which Diodorus of Sicily had written in the 1st century BC. The next visitor of note was Giovanni Belzoni, a showman and engineer of Italian origin and, latterly, an archaeologist and antiques dealer. Belzoni's travels took him in 1815 to Cairo, where he sold Mehemet Ali a hydraulic engine of his own invention. There he met British Consul General Henry Salt, who hired his services to collect from the temple in Thebes the so-called 'Younger Memnon', one of two colossal granite heads depicting Ramesses II, and transport it to England. Thanks to Belzoni's hydraulics and his skill as"
"by his side, A child most beautiful. In the midst appears Laon, exempt alone from mortal hopes and fears."" Finally, Laon and Cythna undergo a miraculous transformation. In the final scenes, their spiritual odyssey of transmogrification is recounted. The Revolt of Islam The Revolt of Islam (1818) is a poem in twelve cantos composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1817. The poem was originally published under the title ""Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century"" by Charles and James Ollier in December 1817. Shelley composed the work in the vicinity of"
"Thebes, from where he removed with great skill the colossal bust of Ramesses II, commonly called ""the Young Memnon"". Shipped by Belzoni to England, this piece is still on prominent display at the British Museum. This weighed over 7 tons. It took him 17 days and 130 men to tow it to the river. He used levers to lift it onto rollers. Then he had his men distributed equally with 4 ropes drag it on the rollers. On the first day (27 July) he only covered a few yards, the second he covered 50 yards deliberately breaking the bases of"
"epic, ""The Revolt of Islam,"" later the same month.) Shelley's poem was published on 11 January 1818 under the pen name Glirastes. It appeared on page 24 in the yearly collection, under Original Poetry. Shelley's poem was later republished under the title ""Sonnet. Ozymandias"" in his 1819 collection ""Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems"" by Charles and James Ollier and in the 1826 ""Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley"" by William Benbow, both in London. Smith's poem was published, along with a note signed with the initials H.S., on 1 February 1818. It takes the"
"William (born to Mary Shelley) in 1819. The ensuing pain influenced Shelley. The poem allegorises the role of the poet as the voice of change and revolution. At the time of composing this poem, Shelley without doubt had the Peterloo Massacre of August 1819 in mind. His other poems written at the same time—""The Masque of Anarchy"", ""Prometheus Unbound"", and ""England in 1819""—take up these same themes of political change, revolution, and role of the poet. The poem ""Ode to the West Wind"" consists of five sections (cantos) written in terza rima. Each section consists of four tercets (ABA, BCB,"
"""Nymphidia"". In Poole's work ""Parnassus"", Mab is described as the Queen of the Fairies and consort to Oberon, Emperor of the Fairies. ""Queen Mab"" is a 1750 pantomime by actor Henry Woodward. ""Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem"" (1813) is the title of the first large poetic work written by the famous English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). Herman Melville's epic American novel ""Moby Dick"" (1851) includes a chapter called ""Queen Mab"". The 31st chapter of Melville's work is entitled such because it describes a dream by Captain Ahab's second mate, Stubb. In J. M. Barrie's ""The Little White Bird"""
"an essential sight for many who undertook the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was much admired by architects, becoming the primary model for pyramids built in the West during this period. Percy Bysshe Shelley described it as ""one keen pyramid with wedge sublime"" in ""Adonaïs"", his 1821 elegy for John Keats. In turn the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy saw the pyramid during a visit to the nearby Protestant Cemetery in 1887 and was inspired to write a poem, ""Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats"", in which he"
"have drawn inspiration from the general fashion for anything Pharaonic, inspired by the French researches during the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt; the 1821 public unwrappings of Egyptian mummies in a theatre near Piccadilly, which she may have attended as a girl; and, very likely, the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."" As Shelley had written of Frankenstein's creation, ""A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch,"" which may have triggered young Miss Webb's later concept. In any case, at many points she deals in greater clarity with elements from the"
"Queen Mab (poem) Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet. After substantial reworking, a revised edition of a portion of the text was published in 1816 under the title The Daemon of the World. This poem was written early in Shelley's career and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution. It is his first major poem. In this work, he depicts a two-pronged revolt involving necessary changes, brought on by both nature and"
"loose iambic pentameter, but with an atypical rhyme scheme (ABABA CDCEDEFEF) when compared to other English-language sonnets, and without the characteristic octave-and-sestet structure. A central theme of the ""Ozymandias"" poems is the inevitable decline of rulers with their pretensions to greatness. The name ""Ozymandias"" is a rendering in Greek of a part of Ramesses II's throne name, ""User-maat-re Setep-en-re"". The poems paraphrase the inscription on the base of the statue, given by Diodorus Siculus in his ""Bibliotheca historica"" as ""King of Kings am I, Ozymandias. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass"
"The Masque of Anarchy ""The Masque of Anarchy"" (or ""The Mask of Anarchy"") is a British political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo massacre of that year. In his call for freedom, it is perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance. The poem was not published during Shelley's lifetime and did not appear in print until 1832 (see 1832 in poetry), when published by Edward Moxon in London with a preface by Leigh Hunt. Shelley had sent the manuscript in 1819 for publication in ""The Examiner"". Leigh"
"poem was written on the beach at Yarmouth on a stormy evening, and was first published in 1818: Britannia Monument The Nelson's Monument is a commemorative column or tower built in memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson, situated on the Denes, Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, England. It was designated as a Grade I listed structure in 1953. Designed by architect William Wilkins, it was raised in the period 1817–19 from money raised by a committee of local magnates. The first custodian of the monument was former Able Seaman James Sharman, a member of the crew of the ""Victory"""
"he had handwritten himself. Shelley biographer Charles S. Middleton further suggests that ""it is hinted, somewhat plausibly, that the Leonora of Bürgher first awakened his poetic faculty. A tale of such beauty and terror might well have kindled his lively imagination"". Influences of Bürger's poem on ""Monk"" Lewis, John Keats and William Wordsworth have also been noted, and some of its verses have been used by other authors on their own works. The verse ""die Todten Reiten schnell"" (""The dead travel fast"") is also particularly famous for being cited by Bram Stoker in the first chapter of his novel ""Dracula"""
"a Man"", the character played by Jeff Hordley, Stan Keaton, quotes the last verse in its entirety whilst standing outside the Aidensfield Arms with his fellow sacked workers. The Masque of Anarchy ""The Masque of Anarchy"" (or ""The Mask of Anarchy"") is a British political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo massacre of that year. In his call for freedom, it is perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance. The poem was not published during Shelley's lifetime and did not appear in print until 1832 (see 1832"
"Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 September to 14 December in 1815 in Bishopsgate, London and first published in 1816. The poem was without a title when Shelley passed it along to his contemporary and friend, Thomas Love Peacock. The poem is 720 lines long. It is considered to be one of the first of Shelley's major poems. Peacock suggested the name Alastor which comes from Roman mythology. Peacock has defined Alastor as ""evil genius."" The name does not refer to the hero or"
"hours creep, Dream thou – and from thy sleep Mutability (poem) ""Mutability"" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection ""Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems"". Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley's novel ""Frankenstein"" although his authorship is not acknowledged in either the 1818 or 1831 editions. She is credited as the author of the lines. There is also a prose version of the same themes of the poem in ""Frankenstein"". The Creature or Frankenstein's monster also quotes a line from the poem in the novel. The"
"modelled on the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Despite its title, the poem is not focused on Islam as a specific religion, though the general subject of religion is addressed, and the work draws on Orientalist archetypes and themes. The work is a symbolic parable on liberation and revolutionary idealism following the disillusionment of the French Revolution. In ""The Revolt of Islam, A Poem, in Twelve Cantos"" (1818), consisting of 4,818 lines, Shelley returned to the social and political themes of ""Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem"" (1813). The poem is in Spenserian stanzas with each stanza containing nine lines in"
"Peacock, and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of ""Frankenstein"". Shelley is perhaps best known for classic poems such as ""Ozymandias"", ""Ode to the West Wind"", ""To a Skylark"", ""Music, When Soft Voices Die"", ""The Cloud"" and ""The Masque of Anarchy."" His other major works include a groundbreaking verse drama ""The Cenci"" (1819) and long, visionary, philosophical poems such as ""Queen Mab"" (later reworked as ""The Daemon of the World""), ""Alastor"", ""The Revolt of Islam"", ""Adonaïs"", ""Prometheus Unbound"" (1820)—widely considered to be his masterpiece—""Hellas: A Lyrical Drama"" (1821), and his final, unfinished work, ""The Triumph of Life"" (1822)."
"at the Archaeological Museum of Delphi. Delphi inspired literature as well. In 1814 W. Haygarth, friend of Lord Byron, refers to Delphi in his work ""Greece, a Poem"". In 1888 Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle published his lyric drama L’Apollonide, accompanied by music by Franz Servais. More recent French authors used Delphi as a source of inspiration such as Yves Bonnefoy (Delphes du second jour) or Jean Sullivan (nickname of Joseph Lemarchand) in L'Obsession de Delphes (1967), but also Rob MacGregor's Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi (1991). The presence of Delphi in Greek literature is very intense."