How To Love Lit Podcast · Christy and Garry Shriver

Percy Shelley || Ozymandias

November 15, 2025·42 min·4 clips

"I met a traveler from an antique land, who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert."

The hosts of How To Love Lit Podcast explore the controversial life and work of Percy Shelley, focusing on his famous sonnet 'Ozymandias.' They analyze the poem's structure, themes of political criticism and artistic longevity, while discussing Shelley's troubled personal history including his expulsion from Oxford, multiple relationships, and eventual exile to Italy.

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