The Keats-Shelley Review 33, 2 (2019), 175-193
Many visitors to John Keats’s grave in Rome in the nineteenth century thought it ‘neglected’ or ‘solitary’ and unshaded. Today’s critics, viewing it in a corner of the cemetery, sometimes describe it as ‘marginal’. An analysis of the history of the grave suggests that, on the contrary, it enjoyed a privileged position. It also puts into context the threat in the late 19th century to have the grave demolished.