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 ...

For some quirky reason, one of my favorite poems of all time has been “Ozymandias” by the eccentric English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lived from 1792-1822. Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Breaking Bad,” by far the current critical favorite series on TV, is about to kick off its final eight episodes on AMC. And what better way to court the innate high-brow leanings of those same ...

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Watchmen‘s third episode and Lady Trieu. HBO “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Adrian Veidt took his superhero name from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ...

Remember that Percy Bysshe Shelley poem, “Ozymandias”? It describes the remains of an impressive carved stone monument, right down to the frown, the wrinkled lip and the sneer on its countenance.

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 ...