The Keats-Shelley Journal 65 (2016), 53-69

The grave in Rome of Percy Bysshe Shelley soon became a place of pilgrimage for admirers of his poetry, and remains one today. Evidence derived from cemetery records, early visitors’ accounts and depictions of the grave reveals how, during the 19th century, it acquired an aura of sanctity, an aspect of his posthumous fame that has not hitherto received much attention.