Biographical Source:

Greenfield, John R. British Romantic Poets, 1789-1832. 2ndser.
    New York: Gale Research Inc, 1990.

This dictionary provides an in depth look at the life of Percy SHelley and gives an idea of what the poet was going through at the time he constructed certain works.  It tells how Shelley gave up financial security and his family's good graces for the love of his work.  How his beliefes in "free love" lead to the suicide of his first wife.  This book brakes down how Shelley was able to leave such a mark on the literary world in such a short lifetime.  Then lastly gives a summary of the events leading to his untimely death.

Monarch Notes.  The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.  New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1965

This book looks through many of Shelley's works throughout his life.  At the beginning of the book there is a brief biography of Shelley's life.  It tells us he was born on August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England.  He went to Oxford University for awhile until he got kicked out for writing a pamphlet about the existence of god.  He eloped twice to two different women in 1811 to Hairret Westbrook and to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in 1814.  Shelley was a hunted man at all times.  Shelley died at sea on his ship the "Don Juan"

"Percy Bysshe Shelley."  Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd Vols. Gale Research, 1998
    Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mi Gale Group. 2004.
    http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

This biographical essay provides an overview of Percy Bysshe Shelley's life from the beginning in Field Place, Sussex, England to his death in the Gulf of Spezia near Lerici, Italy.  This essay talks about Shelley growing up with his hardheaded father, which caused him to be named "Mad Shelley."  This name gave him the reputation in the future to write provacative throughts and feelings through his writings.  It goes on to talk about Shelley's first poems such as Queen Mab, Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, Prometheus, and his most ambitious poem The Revolt of Islam.  All of these poems were written throughout his own life experiences such as the loss of his son, wife, and being exiled from England.  This essay ends with his final poems and prose works with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Inerpretive source:

Ayo, Ibukun Idenobe. "Ozymandias and the Lessons for our Politicians."  African News
    Service  14 May 2002: op-ed page. Infotrac Online. Internet Explorer. 21 Mar.
    2004.  Keyword: Nigeria

This article talks about the poem "Ozymandias" in the second and third paragraphs as being a poem for the world.  The writer talks about how every country and in this case Nigeria has its own ruler who has fallen and been forgotten.  The poem by Shelley helps the world better understand that no matter what may happen through horrible rulers they will eventually fall and be forgotten

Cook, Albert S. Modern Language Notes, Vol. 20, No. 6. (Jun., 1905), pp. 161-162.
    <http://links.jstor.org/sici=0149-6611%28190506%2920%3a6%3c161%3ANOS%3E>

In this article it discusses the geographical context within the poem Ozymandias that Shelley wrote.  It takes lines from the poem such as "lone and level sands" and compares it to the geographical findings of the region that the poem was placed at.

Gillespie, Nick. "Ozymandias redux. (Editor's Note)." Reason Foundations in association with
    The Gale Group and LookSmart. (2003): 6 pars. 21 March. 2004
    <http://www.findarticles.com/cr_0/ml568/2_35/101174732/print.jhtml.>.

In this brief article, the writer is talking about the war in Iraq and is comparing the fall of Saddam Hussein's statue to the fall of Ozymandias of Egypt.  He is quoted as saying in the artickle, "As statues of Saddam Hussein are pulled to the groun all over Iraq, it's though not to think of Sheeley's 'Ozymandias of Egypt,' in which a 'traveller' recounts stumbling across a half-buring monument to a long-forgotten tyrant:."  The article continues in talking about how the war in Iraq is affecting the Americans and the Iraqi people.

Additional Sources:

Flaherty, Thomas H. Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs, New York: Time-Life Books, 1992

This book gave an overview of the pharaohs of Egypt.  It gave the background of the discovery of the statue, and hisotircal information on the reign of Ramses II.

Tanakh- The Holy Scriptures,The New JPS Translation Accoring to the Traditional Hebrew Text, The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia & Jerusalem, 1985, p90-91

The book of Exodus relates the story of the Hebrews life of slavery under the rule of Ramses II.