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Ode to a poet's abode Charlotte Cory despaired when she learnt that Keats's home was being modernised. Now she's singing like a nightingale

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040222
Author:Charlotte Cory

Exactly 183 years ago tomorrow, John Keats died in Rome. He had arrived several months earlier and was already in the advanced stages of tuberculosis when he took lodgings with his artist friend, Joseph Severn, in a house beside the Spanish Steps. After he died, the house became an unofficial shrine to both him and Shelley - who died in Italy 18 months later.

In 1903, the house was saved from destruction by a campaign, backed by the Italian King, President Roosevelt and Edward VII, that established it as a museum and study centre for the Romantic poets.

I arrived on a beautiful day last May. ...

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