MEMORIAL TO BRITISH POETS.
KEATS AND SHELLEY. [Pnzss Association. — Copseiqhi.j (Received April 6, S a.m.) ROME, Monday. The King of Italy has inaugunrated a Memorial House at Rome to the memory of the English poets Keats and Shelley.' King Edward has telegraphed his sympathy with the movement, ; .; (John Keats' body lies within the Aurelian Wall of Rome, where also lie (since 1879) the remains of hi; faithful friend Severn, who attended ihim in his last illness (1821). Percy Bysshe Shelley, some of whose happiest and saddest days were spent in Italy, was drowned in a storm off Leghorn about the Bth July, 1821, the body being found with that of his friend Williams on the shore near Via Reggio on the 19th July of that year.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 6 April 1909, Page 3
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126MEMORIAL TO BRITISH POETS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 6 April 1909, Page 3
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