the british museum reading room poem

For years, The British Museum in London was like a book I've cracked open a dozen times, but was never able to get passed the first chapter. I knew its beginning pages almost by heart. The crowds in front... inspired the poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley. A poem which features into the plot of The Watchmen comics. .... have enjoyed the rest of the museum, which is free. Here's the staircase up to the Reading Room, which is fairly grandiose in and of itself:...


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It is not difficult to imagine a setting for these remarks: the dingy room on the Left Bank of Paris by the flickering kerosene lamp, the poet's pen scratching on paper pulled out of stacks heaped on table and chairs; or perhaps, as so often in the... Vaclavske Namesti--or Wenzelsplatz, as the Germans called it in that bilingual city--is a generous plaza lined with trees and a busy thoroughfare leading from the broad steps of the National Museum toward the center of town.
Surviving Transition: Life of a Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke

Charlotte Mason's journal, The Parents' Review, published a series of articles about the contents of the British Museum, the eventually became a book, now available online. Students in her schools and homeschools read this book to inspire them: "Whether the .... We wandered around exploring everything in the room and finding things that reminded us of the book we are reading. Pamela finally settled on copying a few samurai warriors into her book of centuries.
the british museum reading room poem