Publications

In 1819 John Keats composed most of the poems for which he is best remembered and most loved today, including his great Odes. In 2019, to mark the bicentenary of Keats' extraordinarily creative year, this new volume features new Odes in English and Italian written by celebrated poets, including Annelisa Alleva, Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Paolo Febbraro, and Liz Lochhead, among others. The book, which contains a lively introduction by Professor Duncan Wu, is printed and sold by the Keats-Shelley House as part of our Keats-Shelley200 campaign to celebrate the achievements of Keats and Shelley 200 years from their deaths. 

Mad, bad and dangerous to know! Such was the reputation of the author to our exciting new collection of poetry:  
Lord Byron. 

Edited by Professor Duncan Wu and with a preface by celebrated actor and lover of the English Romantics Julian Sands, this beautiful volume contains some of Byron's most extraordinary works, and a selection of never-before-published portraits and illustrations contemporary to Byron's life from the Paul Betz collection. 

All proceeds of this special book will go to the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, which recieves no official funding from either Britain or Italy. The book will be available exclusively from our gift shop in Rome, or from our online gift shop.

To purchase your copy, visit: http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/shop/books 

Friends of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association get a 30% discount on the full price of the book. Please write to info@ksh.roma.it for more information. 

Edited and Introduced by Duncan Wu, with a Preface by Bob Geldof 

Published on 14 February 2018, this elegant 230-page paperback has been edited by Duncan Wu, Raymond Wagner Professor of Literary Studies at Georgetown University and a long-standing Trustee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. The edition includes some of the most beautiful love poems written by the poet, along with a generous selection of letters addressed to his fiancée Fanny Brawne.

It features a preface by celebrated rock legend and activist Bob Geldof KBE, who has had a substantial interest in John Keats's poetry throughout his life.

Bob Geldof writes about his love of John Keats in the i newspaper.

All proceeds of this special book will go to the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, which receives no official funding from either Britain or Italy. The book will be available exclusively from our gift shop in Rome, or from our online gift shop (see below).

Friends of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association get a 30% discount on the full price of the book. Please write to info@ksh.roma.it for more information.

Edited and Introduced by Professor Duncan Wu.

With a Preface by Julian Sands

On 2 December 2016, the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association published a new anthology: John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Essential Poems.  

This 190-page handsome paperback has been edited by Duncan Wu, Raymond Wagner Professor of Literary Studies at Georgetown University and a long-standing Trustee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. The edition includes some of the most beautiful poems ever written in the English language, along with illuminating new introductions to both poets provided by the editor.

It also features a preface by celebrated English actor Julian Sands, who played P. B. Shelley in Ken Russell's classic film Gothic.

Friends of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association get a 30% discount on the full price of the book. Please write to info@ksh.roma.it for more information.

A celebration of the Borges manuscript at the Keats-Shelley House, with an essay by Jason Wilson

This publication from the Keats-Shelley House Press offers a fascinating glimpse into the process by which Argentinian poet and writer Jorge Luis Borges developed his essay "The Nightingale of Keats".

The 66-page book contains a high-quality facsimile of the manuscript with transcription, Borges' essay, and an essay by Borges scholar Jason Wilson, Professor Emeritus at University College London; both essays are presented in both English and Italian.

Friends of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association get a 30% discount on the full price of the book. Please write to info@ksh.roma.it for more information.

The Illustrating Keats exhibition catalogue contains the 22 full-colour reproductions of the images featured in the exhibition along with 10 exclusive images of alternate pages of the books. Accompanying texts by museum curator Giuseppe Albano and artist Nancy Watkins explore the relationship between Keats's textual art and the visual art it has inspired.

Friends of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association get a 30% discount on the full price of the Anthology. Please write to info@ksh.roma.it

RRPrice: €15.00. Keats and Italy can be ordered from our online gift shop: http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/shop/books

'Nothing could be more characteristic of the Romantics
than their ability to see the world afresh. And this is nowhere more clearly
seen than in this selection of poems commemorating a small, little-seen bird,
which has an important place in mythology and literature: the
nightingale.'
From the introduction by Duncan Wu

This travel-sized collection of 22 poems chronicles the
conversation between the Romantic poets and the tiny bird which, for them,
spoke with the very voice of nature itself.

52 pp.

Price: € 8.50

Perfect for autumn and winter firesides and teacups, the latest exclusive publication from the Keats-Shelley House Press is the perfect gift for any animal lover to curl up with.  

The Happy Fireside assembles poetry about dogs and cats by poets of the Romantic period including Keats, Byron, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and also features the essay Keats and Cats by renowned Keats biographer, Robert Gittings. 

With 27 poems about these domestic companions selected and introduced by Duncan Wu, this unique collection brings the Romantic mind hearth-side in a intimate and cozy read.

80 pp.

This booklet provides a room by room description of the permanent collection of the Keats-Shelley House, Rome. Complete with images of selected items in the collection and suggested further reading.

An 150 page illustrated catalogue to accompany the exhibition 'Spellbound by Rome, the Anglo-American community in Rome (1890-1914) and the founding of the Keats-Shelley House'.
Includes 8 essays and the catalogue of works on display.

In English and Italian.

This publication, spanning the better part of 300 years, is a book on the history of Keats in Italy and the Museum that commemorates his life.
It includes an account of the founding of the Museum, an essay on the architectural history of the building and one about the influence of Italy on Keats, as well as a comprehensive record of the collection itself.

RRPrice: €10.00. Keats and Italy can be ordered from our online gift shop: http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/shop/books

An Italian translation of a text by Stephen Hebron with colour illustrations.