Portal:Poetry/Did you know archive/Week 26 2006

• ...that Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias was written in competition with another on the same subject by his friend Horace Smith?

• ...that one theory for the origin of the word Dada, meaning hobby-horse, is that it was randomly chosen from the dictionary by a group of artists?

• ...that many of the medical writings of Avicenna were written in verse?