Who Is Ozymandias? And Other Puzzles in Poetry Mark Pendergrast the Springboks—long an embodiment of

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' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object

Who Is Ozymandias? And Other Puzzles in Poetry Mark Pendergrast the Springboks—long an embodiment ofPart of the pleasure of poetry is unraveling the mysteries and difficulties it contains and solving the puzzles that lie within. Who, for instance, is Ozymandias? What is the Snark? Who is the Emperor of Ice Cream? Or indeed, who is 'you' in a poem? In this perceptive and playful new book, acclaimed poet John Fuller looks at some of our greatest poems and considers the number of individual puzzles at their heart, casting light on how we should