Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Aug 23, 2023
Frank Skinner discusses statues and statutes with Percy Bysshe Shelley, the renowned romantic poet and essayist. They explore Shelley's unpublished poem, unconventional distribution methods, the structure of the sonnet, the need for reform in Parliament, and the power of poetry in resurrecting England. They also contemplate the decay of power through the vandalism of statues and the lasting influence of Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias'.
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