Editing Ozymandias (section)

===Publication history===
The banker and political writer [[Horace Smith (poet)|Horace Smith]] spent the Christmas season of 1817–1818 with Percy and [[Mary Shelley]]. At this time, members of their literary circle would sometimes challenge each other to write competing sonnets on a common subject: Shelley, [[John Keats]] and [[Leigh Hunt]] wrote competing sonnets about the Nile around the same time. Shelley and Smith both chose a passage from the writings of the Greek historian [[Diodorus Siculus]] in ''[[Bibliotheca historica]]'', which described a massive Egyptian statue and quoted its inscription: "King of Kings Ozymandias am I. If any want to know how great I am and where I lie, let him outdo me in my work." In Shelley's poem, Diodorus becomes "a traveller from an antique land."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Siculus |first1=Diodorus |title=Bibliotheca Historica |at=1.47.4 |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Diod.+1.47&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0540}}</ref>{{efn|See footnote 10 at the following source, for reference to the Loeb Classical Library translation of this inscription, by C. H. Oldfather: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/ozymandias, accessed 12 April 2014.}}{{efn|See section/verse 1.47.4 at the following presentation of the 1933 version of the Loeb Classics translation, which also matches the translation appearing here:  http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/1C*.html, accessed 12 April 2014.}}{{efn|For the original Greek, see: {{cite book|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0540%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D47%3Asection%3D4| author=Diodorus Siculus|title= Bibliotheca Historica|others=Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. In aedibus B. G. Teubneri|chapter=1.47.4|language=el|volume=1-2}} At the [[Perseus Project]].}}

Shelley wrote the poem around [[Christmas]] in 1817<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2013-12-18 |title=King of Kings |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2013/12/18/king-of-kings |access-date=2021-02-07 |issn=0013-0613}}</ref>{{Em dash}}either in December that year or early January 1818.{{Sfn|Mozer|2010|p=728}} The poem was printed in ''The Examiner'',{{sfn|Glirastes|1818|p=24}} a weekly paper published by Leigh's brother [[John Hunt (publisher)|John Hunt]] in London. Hunt admired Shelley's poetry and many of his other works, such as ''[[The Revolt of Islam]]'', were published in ''The Examiner''.{{sfn|Graham|1925}}{{multiple image |align=right | total_width = 320 |image1=Ozymandias Shelley draft c1817.gif |caption1=A fair copy draft (c. 1817) of Shelley's "Ozymandias" in the collection of Oxford's Bodleian Library|image2=Ozymandias.jpg |caption2=1817 draft by Percy Bysshe Shelley, [[Bodleian Library]]}}
Shelley's poem was published on 11 January 1818 under the pen name "Glirastes".{{sfn|Carter|2018}} The name meant "lover of dormice", dormouse being his pet name for his spouse, author [[Mary Shelley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/07/06/romantic-interests-ozymandias-shelley-dormouse |title=Romantic Interests: "Ozymandias" and a Runaway Dormouse &#124; The New York Public Library |publisher=Nypl.org |date=2018-07-06 |accessdate=2022-08-22}}</ref> Smith's [[Ozymandias (Smith)|sonnet of the same name]] was published several weeks later.{{Sfn|Stephens|2009|p=156}} Shelley's poem appeared on page 24 in the yearly collection, under Original Poetry. It appeared again in Shelley's 1819 collection ''[[Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems|Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems]]'',<ref name="Shelley1819">{{cite book | last = Shelley | first = Percy Bysshe | title = Rosalind and Helen, a modern eclogue; with other poems | date = 1819 | location = London | page = 92 | url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t1bk2mq33&view=1up&seq=106}}</ref> which was republished in 1876 under the title "Sonnet. Ozymandias" by [[Charles Ollier|Charles and James Ollier]]<ref name="Shelley1876">Reprinted in

{{cite book
 | last = Shelley | first = Percy Bysshe
 | title = Rosalind and Helen – Edited, with notes by H. Buxton Forman, and printed for private distribution.
 | publisher = Hollinger
 | date = 1876
 | location = London
 | page = 72
 | url = https://archive.org/stream/rosalindhelenmod00she#page/72/mode/2up
  }}
</ref> and in the 1826 ''Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley'' by [[William Benbow]], both in London.{{sfn|Shelley|1826|p=100}}