“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

This is the poem that made me appreciate the Romantics. My first encounter with the Romantics was teaching Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” to a class of Year 9s who, needless to say, didn’t quite see the point. It was early in my teaching career and I was still trying to legitimize my position as an Australian teaching [...]

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