The sonnet “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, rose again this week. A trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad featured Walter White reciting the poem, first published in 1818, while a ...

If you struggle to memorize whole poems, as some of us do, it’s still efficacious to remember bits and pieces, to treasure up and produce at need. Into every life, at some time or other, will surely ...

Last night wasn’t the first time Breaking Bad has used a ten-cent word for an episode title (see: last week’s mouthful, “To’hajiilee”) but, for those who didn’t pay attention during English Poetry 101 ...

Percy Bysshe Shelly turned the despot Ozymandias into a memorable sonnet about tyranny and time. Inspired by the poem, sculptor Douglas Kornfeld created a monumental red figure named Ozymandias that ...

Poetry has dropped so far out of the cultural mainstream in the U.S. that even seeing a great poem mangled, manhandled or misunderstood almost makes us smile. Every time a high-school commencement ...