This is the audio version of the blog post 'The Keats-Shelley House In Rome'. The post was written by Lorraine Stoker, a digitisation volunteer for the Courtauld Connects Library project. It was first published on 31 July 2020. The audio version is read by Bill Bryant, who is also a digitisation volunteer.
In this blog, Lorraine examines a photograph of the Keats Shelley House in Rome, taken by Anthony Frank Kersting in 1961. Lorraine sees the images and ideas of Keats's poem, 'Ode to a Nightingale', reflected in the then-dilapidated building captured in black-and-white by Kersting. She reflects on how the building has been transformed into the place that she knows and loves from visits to Italy, and reveals how photographs of architecture can capture emotion.
You can find the written version with photographs on our blog http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/07/31/lorraine-stoker-the-keats-shelley-house-in-rome/
