KEATS-SHELLEY200 AMBASSADORS SEND TRIBUTES TO THE HOUSE AND TO ITALY
To celebrate the birthday of the Keats-Shelley House, which was inaugurated on 3 rd April 1909, and pay tribute to the resilience and remarkable courage of the Italian people during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of our Keats-Shelley200 Ambassadors sent messages of goodwill and support to the House and to Italy.
Journalist and broadcaster Reeta Chakrabarti, and actors Rosie Cavaliero and Julian Sands each sent their wishes, and read poems in tribute to Italy. Julian opted for Keats’s sonnet ‘Happy is England’, in which the poet praises the simple charms of English life while ‘long[ing] for skies Italian’, while Reeta and Rosie read different translations in English – by Jonathan Galassi and Francis Henry Cliffe respectively – of Giacomo Leopardi’s stirring poem 'Sopra il monumento di Dante'.
Deborah Hodges, a Trustee of the KSMA, added ‘We are enormously grateful to everyone who has offered their ongoing support to the Keats-Shelley House and its dedicated team at this difficult time. We are optimistic that our programme of events planned over the coming years to commemorate the anniversaries of the death of Keats and Shelley will go ahead both in the UK and in Italy, although there will be adjustments to the timetable.’
We’ll be hearing more from our Keats-Shelley200 Ambassadors soon
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