Seminar at the Keats-Shelley House, Rome: John Keats’ Early Poems, 1814-1817
In order to mark the bicentenary of the composition of ‘Imitation of Spenser’ (1814), John Keats’s earliest known poem, the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Keats Foundation are jointly hosting an afternoon (2pm-7pm) academic seminar on 31 October, Keats’s birthday, at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.
The registration fee is €25, which includes refreshments and prosecco reception.
In order to place your booking, please call 0039 06 678 42 35 or write to info@ksh.roma.it
The programme for the afternoon’s activities is as follows:
14.00 - Registration (Tea and coffee served)
14.30 - Welcome and introductory tour of the collection: Dr Giuseppe Albano, Curator, Keats-Shelley House
14.45 - Keynote lecture: Keats. The Young Poet as Hero: Life as a Poetic Pilgrimage: Professor Nadia Fusini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
15.30 - Seeing through the “Burden of the Past”: Superior Belatedness in Keats’s Early Sonnets: Dr Derek Lowe, University of South Alabama, USA
16.00 - Tea, coffee and biscuits served on the Terrace (weather permitting) or in the gift shop and film room area
16.30 - Keats’s Early Poetic Project: Solipsistic or Not?: Loredana Mihani, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
17.00 - Keats’s Epistles and His Claims for a Poetic Career: Dr Martin P. McNamee, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
17.30 - “I Must Tell a Tale of Chivalry”: Keats’s Early Reading of Spenser in ‘Specimen of an Introduction to a Poem’: Chiara Moriconi, University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
18.00 - Closing words and prosecco reception