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Poetry Anthology

Ozymandias was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822 ) in 1818 . Percy was a romantic poet, and also the husband to Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.


London was written by William Blake (1757 - 1827 ) in 1794 . William had grown up in london and this poem was based on his perspective that london was a city corrupted by greed.


The Prelude was written by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850 ) in 1798-1850 . William continually worked on this poem up until his death, basing it on his own childhood experiences.