Thomas Marks

The Romantic poets

There has never been a better time to make the pilgrimage to Keats’s grave

issue 28 May 2016

People can be mightily protective of their Romantic poets. When I worked at the Keats Shelley House, overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome, one of my colleagues developed a callus on her hand where the daily task of locking the museum door — emphatically — caused the key to abrade her skin.

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