Rome in 15 Buildings 15: Keats-Shelley House
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For well over a century, the Odes of John Keats have been boring high school students, enchanting lovers of poetry, and giving scholars of English literature interesting things to overinterpret. When he died in 1821, however, Keats was virtually unknown – an anonymous member of Rome’s community of travelers and expatriates in the last years of the Grand Tour.
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