The Keats-Shelley Association of America Blog
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John Keats’s 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 a day academic seminar on 31 October, Keats’s birthday, at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.
‘Essays in Romanticism’ and ‘Byron Journal’ content free during April
Jonathan Branney of the Liverpool University Press recently posted an announcement that two its Romanticism-related publications, Essays in Romanticism and the Byron Journal are free to access during the month of April.
Mary Shelley letters unearthed
BBC news has reported the discovery of a small cache of previously unknown letters by Mary Shelley. The find came while Professor Nora Crook of Anglia Ruskin University was researching the holdings of a public records office in Essex, UK. The discovery of the letters, addressed to Horace Smith and his daughter Eliza, was quite by accident, according to Crook. The full article is available here.