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Source: BBC Radio 4 "Adventures in Poetry"

Roundup

11-20-05

Ozymandias [30min]

Biographer Richard Holmes and BBC world affairs correspondent Rageh Omaar are among contributors who explore the background, effect and lasting appeal of the poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Adventures in Poetry"