Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume II : Mint Editions : 9781513207759 : 151320775X : 23 Sep 2021 : The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume II (1914) compiles some of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known works as a leading poet, playwright, and political thinker of the nineteenth century. As a leading figure among the English Romantics, Shelley was a master of poetic form and tradition who recognized the need for radical change in the social order. His work has influenced such writers and intellectuals as Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, W. B. Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw. In ?Ozymandias,? Shelley employs the language of archaeology to mask one of the greatest political poems of all time. The sonnet depicts a statue of an ancient king discovered in the Egyptian desert. Barely visible above the shifting sand, its pedestal reads ??My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'? Juxtaposed with this language of bluster, th