‘Pretensions to permanency’: Lord Byron’s portrait busts
We are pleased to announce that the Keats-Shelley House is boasting a 3D Virtual Exhibition, ‘Pretensions to permanency’: Lord Byron’s portrait busts.
The digital exhibition which was brilliantly created by V21 Artspace showcases five major portrait busts of Lord Byron made in Italy, two of which are now part of the KSH collection and on display in our museum.
The virtual exhibition is on view here at the Keats-Shelley House along with a 3D printed version of the ‘Lord Byron by Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850) 1822, terra cruda (unfired clay), Pisa’, providing an opportunity for visitors to engage with a touchable rendition, touching being a restriction with the original bust.
However, for those of you who won't be able to visit the museum during the celebrations for Byron 200, the digital exhibition will also be available to view at kshbyron200.v21artspace.com on all devices and optimised for desktop, laptop and tablet.
Watch the video below to get a glimpse of the virtual exhibition.
National Portrait Gallery Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze
COMING TO POETRY: AN ODE Liz Lochhead
‘My joy forever? My truth and terror too.’
Liz Lochhead reads ‘Coming to Poetry: An Ode’ at the Keats-Shelley House. The poem reflects on the author’s teenage discovery of Keats during the Cuban Missile Crisis and was first published in our #KeatsShelley200 anthology Odes for John Keats.
Keats-Shelley200: Keats by Candlelight (Ode to a Nightingale)
On 6 and 7 September 2021 Sir John Soane’s Museum in London hosted three performances of ‘Keats by Candlelight’ over two consecutive evenings as part of our Keats-Shelley 200 programme. See the trailer and introduction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEiFPJ8HeA0
Visitors were treated to a memorable celebration of the poetry of John Keats accompanied by readings of letters to and from his family, skilfully presented by actors dressed in costumes of the Regency period. As visitors moved through the evocative spaces housing Sir John Soane’s unique collection of classical vases and statuary, Keats himself, his fiancé Fanny Brawne, his sister-in-law Georgiana and sister Fanny were re-created to entertain and delight the audience.
Each performance was preceded by a reception with refreshments and introductions by Giuseppe Albano, Curator of the Keats-Shelley House, and Keats-Shelley 200 Producer and KSMA Trustee, Joe Bates, before setting off into the candlelit recesses of the Museum. In the Breakfast Room actor Tom Palmer introduced some of Keats’s more sensual enthusiasms such as claret and succulent fruit, before leading us towards The Dome where we were treated to some enduring favourites such as the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.
In the Monk’s Parlour there was a change of pace as Fred Fergus recited ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ and other works reflecting Keats’s fascination with Gothically-inspired, writings of the Medieval period. The melancholy and haunting ‘To Autumn’ echoed around the room as we progressed upstairs.
In the lovely Drawing Rooms of the Museum, John Keats, played by Harry Lloyd Yorke and Polly Edsell read some of the poet’s lighter verses and explored elements of his life through letters to his fiancée and family members. This was a journey imbued with the emotions of joy, romance, sadness and final tragedy, so mo
Keats-Shelley200: Keats by Candlelight (A Reading of Letters)
On 6 and 7 September 2021 Sir John Soane’s Museum in London hosted three performances of ‘Keats by Candlelight’ over two consecutive evenings as part of our Keats-Shelley 200 programme. See the trailer and introduction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEiFPJ8HeA0
Visitors were treated to a memorable celebration of the poetry of John Keats accompanied by readings of letters to and from his family, skilfully presented by actors dressed in costumes of the Regency period. As visitors moved through the evocative spaces housing Sir John Soane’s unique collection of classical vases and statuary, Keats himself, his fiancé Fanny Brawne, his sister-in-law Georgiana and sister Fanny were re-created to entertain and delight the audience.
Each performance was preceded by a reception with refreshments and introductions by Giuseppe Albano, Curator of the Keats-Shelley House, and Keats-Shelley 200 Producer and KSMA Trustee, Joe Bates, before setting off into the candlelit recesses of the Museum. In the Breakfast Room actor Tom Palmer introduced some of Keats’s more sensual enthusiasms such as claret and succulent fruit, before leading us towards The Dome where we were treated to some enduring favourites such as the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.
In the Monk’s Parlour there was a change of pace as Fred Fergus recited ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ and other works reflecting Keats’s fascination with Gothically-inspired, writings of the Medieval period. The melancholy and haunting ‘To Autumn’ echoed around the room as we progressed upstairs.
In the lovely Drawing Rooms of the Museum, John Keats, played by Harry Lloyd Yorke and Polly Edsell read some of the poet’s lighter verses and explored elements of his life through letters to his fiancée and family members. This was a journey imbued with the emotions of joy, romance, sadness and final tragedy, so mo
Keats-Shelley200: Keats by Candlelight (Bright Star)
On 6 and 7 September 2021 Sir John Soane’s Museum in London hosted three performances of ‘Keats by Candlelight’ over two consecutive evenings as part of our Keats-Shelley 200 programme. See the trailer and introduction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEiFPJ8HeA0
Visitors were treated to a memorable celebration of the poetry of John Keats accompanied by readings of letters to and from his family, skilfully presented by actors dressed in costumes of the Regency period. As visitors moved through the evocative spaces housing Sir John Soane’s unique collection of classical vases and statuary, Keats himself, his fiancé Fanny Brawne, his sister-in-law Georgiana and sister Fanny were re-created to entertain and delight the audience.
Each performance was preceded by a reception with refreshments and introductions by Giuseppe Albano, Curator of the Keats-Shelley House, and Keats-Shelley 200 Producer and KSMA Trustee, Joe Bates, before setting off into the candlelit recesses of the Museum. In the Breakfast Room actor Tom Palmer introduced some of Keats’s more sensual enthusiasms such as claret and succulent fruit, before leading us towards The Dome where we were treated to some enduring favourites such as the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.
In the Monk’s Parlour there was a change of pace as Fred Fergus recited ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ and other works reflecting Keats’s fascination with Gothically-inspired, writings of the Medieval period. The melancholy and haunting ‘To Autumn’ echoed around the room as we progressed upstairs.
In the lovely Drawing Rooms of the Museum, John Keats, played by Harry Lloyd Yorke and Polly Edsell read some of the poet’s lighter verses and explored elements of his life through letters to his fiancée and family members. This was a journey imbued with the emotions of joy, romance, sadness and final tragedy, so mo
Keats-Shelley200: Keats by Candlelight (Ode on a Grecian Urn)
On 6 and 7 September 2021 Sir John Soane’s Museum in London hosted three performances of ‘Keats by Candlelight’ over two consecutive evenings as part of our Keats-Shelley 200 programme. See the trailer and introduction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEiFPJ8HeA0
Visitors were treated to a memorable celebration of the poetry of John Keats accompanied by readings of letters to and from his family, skilfully presented by actors dressed in costumes of the Regency period. As visitors moved through the evocative spaces housing Sir John Soane’s unique collection of classical vases and statuary, Keats himself, his fiancé Fanny Brawne, his sister-in-law Georgiana and sister Fanny were re-created to entertain and delight the audience.
Each performance was preceded by a reception with refreshments and introductions by Giuseppe Albano, Curator of the Keats-Shelley House, and Keats-Shelley 200 Producer and KSMA Trustee, Joe Bates, before setting off into the candlelit recesses of the Museum. In the Breakfast Room actor Tom Palmer introduced some of Keats’s more sensual enthusiasms such as claret and succulent fruit, before leading us towards The Dome where we were treated to some enduring favourites such as the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.
In the Monk’s Parlour there was a change of pace as Fred Fergus recited ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ and other works reflecting Keats’s fascination with Gothically-inspired, writings of the Medieval period. The melancholy and haunting ‘To Autumn’ echoed around the room as we progressed upstairs.
In the lovely Drawing Rooms of the Museum, John Keats, played by Harry Lloyd Yorke and Polly Edsell read some of the poet’s lighter verses and explored elements of his life through letters to his fiancée and family members. This was a journey imbued with the emotions of joy, romance, sadness and final tragedy, so mo
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The Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Writing Prizes 2021 Winners Announcement by Simon Barnes
The winners of 2021’s Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Writing Prizes will be announced today at 8 p.m. in Rome (7 p.m. in London).
The virtual prize-giving will be hosted by our Prize Chair Simon Barnes – the acclaimed sports journalist, nature-writer and author of books about everything from Hong Kong to The Meaning of Birds.
We would like to send extra special thanks to our amazing Judging Panel – Professors Sharon Ruston and Simon Bainbridge for the essays, Professor Deryn Rees-Jones and Will Kemp for the poems.
We also want to thank and congratulate everyone who entered 2021’s Prize. Inspired by the bicentenary of John Keats’s death, we have spent a lot of the past year wondering how poetry can help us confront, understand and if possible overcome adversity. Reading your work, whether poems or prose, gave us enormous pleasure and considerable hope during these dark times. We hope that the challenge of writing them did something similar.
The theme of 2021’s Poetry Prizes is ‘Writ in Water’. Our inspiration is John Keats’s gravestone in Rome, whose epitaph reads: ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water.’ The 2021 Young Romantics Prize is part of our wider KS200 programme, commemorating the bicentenary of John Keats’s death, aged just 25, on 23rd February 1821.
Essayists could write about any aspect of the writing and/or lives of the Romantics and their circles.
For any questions regarding the 2021 Prize please email us: [email protected]
Bright Star
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Fanny Brawne, John Keats's fiancée and muse was born #onthisday in 1800. Fanny and Keats met in 1818 in Hampstead, at Wentworth Place, now known as Keats House. Although initially quite critical towards her, Keats fell in love and they secretly got engaged in December 1819. Unfortunately, soon afterwards Keats fell ill with tuberculosis and in September 1820 left Fanny and England for Italy, hoping to recover from the disease in a milder climate. Keats eventually died on 23 February 1821 and requested that all the letters he received from Fanny were buried with him. Fanny went into deep mourning for six years and remained unknown to the general public until 1878, when an edition of Keats's love letters to her was published.
To celebrate this anniversary, we'd like to share with you this reading of Bright Star, the poem which Keats dedicated to Fanny, by actor Julian Sands here at the Keats-Shelley House in September 2020.
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Fanny Brawne, la fidanzata e musa di John Keats nacque in questo giorno del 1800. Fanny e Keats si incontrarono nel 1818 ad Hampstead, a Wentworth Place, ora conosciuta come Keats House. Anche se inizialmente piuttosto critico nei suoi confronti, Keats finì per innamorarsi di lei e nel dicembre 1819 si fidanzarono in gran segretezza. Sfortunatamente, poco dopo Keats si ammalò di tubercolosi e nel settembre 1820 lasciò Fanny e l'Inghilterra per l'Italia, sperando di guarire dalla malattia in un clima più mite. Keats alla fine morì il 23 febbraio 1821 e chiese che tutte le lettere che aveva ricevuto da Fanny fossero sepolte con lui. Fanny rimase in lutto per sei anni e restò sconosciuta al grande pubblico fino al 1878, quando venne pubblicata un'edizione delle lettere d'amore che Keats le aveva scritto.
Per celebrare questo anniversario, vorremmo condividere con voi questa lettura di Bright Star, la poesia che Keats dedicò a Fanny, interpretata dall'attore Julian Sands qui alla Keats-Shel
Panoramic Tour
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Would you like to visit the Keats-Shelley House but are unable to travel to Rome at the moment?
Now you can visit the museum remotely from the comfort of your home through our online Panoramic Tour of the House with a Live Guide.
The tour is designed to be enjoyed in the presence of one of our expert guides, who will lead you through the rooms of the House and answer your questions. Participants will be able to explore the museum including the apartment where John Keats died in 1821 and other rooms dedicated to Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron, as well as our beautiful library.
👉 👉 And if you book the Tour by 24 December 2021 you will be able to enter the museum for free on your next visit to Rome. Simply keep your e-ticket code and present it to the staff at the museum ticket shop when you visit. 👈 👈
Watch this quick preview. For more info and to book your Tour click on the link below:
https://ksh.roma.it/panoramic-tour
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Vi piacerebbe visitare la Casa di Keats-Shelley ma al momento non potete viaggiare fino a Roma?
Adesso potete visitare il museo a distanza dalla comodità di casa vostra attraverso il nostro Tour panoramico e online della Casa accompagnati da una guida dal vivo.
La visita si svolgerà in presenza di una delle nostre guide esperte, che vi condurrà attraverso le stanze della Casa e risponderà alle vostre domande. I partecipanti potranno esplorare il museo, che comprende l'appartamento dove morì John Keats nel 1821 e altre stanze dedicate a Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley e Lord Byron, oltre che alla nostra bellissima biblioteca.
👉 👉 E se prenotate il Tour entro il 24 dicembre 2021 potrete entrare gratuitamente al museo in occasione della vostra prossima visita a Roma. Vi basterà conservare il vostro codice e-ticket e presentarlo al personale della biglietteria del museo al momento della visita. 👈 👈
Guardate questa veloce anteprima. Per maggi
