Keats-Shelley House site features

Keats's room

The small second-floor room in which he died on 23 February 1821, with the window onto the Spanish Steps. His death mask is displayed in a case.

The library

Described by the association as one of the finest libraries of Romantic literature in Europe; 10,000 volumes according to Wikipedia, and the part of the collection that stayed in the building through the war.

Severn's last drawing

The drawing of the dying Keats made by Joseph Severn, who nursed him. Among the items evacuated to Montecassino in 1941.

First editions and relics

First editions of Endymion and Lamia, locks of Keats's and Shelley's hair, and letters by Shelley, Byron and Mary Shelley — the same group of objects that went to the abbey and came back.

The wider collection

Manuscripts, letters, paintings and memorabilia relating not only to Keats and Shelley but to Byron, Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Oscar Wilde.