A new national poetry recitation competition in schools, which will see teenagers learn poems such as Shelley's Ozymandias off by heart, was announced by ministers today. By Telegraph Reporters 06 ...

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 ...

TWO North Flintshire junior schoolchildren have rung the right tones to win the Holywell and District Urdd Eisteddfod individual recitation category. Pupils competed at the local finals, held at ...

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 ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Just off the highway heading south on I-27 out of Amarillo are two gigantic legs in ...

This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

AMC has released yet another promo for the final episodes of "Breaking Bad." While keeping mum on footage from the series, this teaser trailer features Walter White (Bryan Cranston) eerily reading the ...

The Sept. 15 episode of AMC's Breaking Bad broke hearts with its badness. In this instance, "badness" translates to television amazingness. I recently wrote about how the show's writers use poetry to ...

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 ...

New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday said words in Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi's poem did not promote disharmony or hatred or ill-will but encouraged people to desist from resorting ...