The speaker of most of the poem commends an artist for having "well those passions read" and creating a figure "with [a] frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command.
J. Gwyn Griffiths argued out that the title of this work is derived from Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca Historia though Johnstone Parr pointed out that Raleigh's History of the World may have also been a possible source. The speaker of most of the poem commends an artist for having "well those passions read" and creating a figure "with [a] frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command." For 10 points, identify this poem whose titular "king of kings" commands the narrator to "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!," a sonnet about Ramses the Great by Percy Shelley.
J. Gwyn Griffiths argued out that the title of this work is derived from Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca Historia though Johnstone Parr pointed out that Raleigh's History of the World may have also been a possible source.
{“Ozymandias”}