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Memorial Association    Patron HRH The Prince of Wales

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The Keats-Shelley Prize 2012

The Keats-Shelley Prize 2011: The Winners

Centenary Appeal

Keats-Shelley Association of America - Carl H.Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants

Prince Charles:

Patron of the KSMA

The Sheila Birkenhead Bursary Awards

The Keats Foundation

Recent Events:

Fund-raising evening at Sir John Soane Museum

Oxford Literary Festival 2012  24th March

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Keats-Shelley Association of America, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants

The Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc., awards two $2,500 research grants annually. Named in honour of the Association's most generous benefactor, the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants support the work of advanced graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty. The grants provide funding for expenses related to research involving the study of British Romanticism and literary culture between 1789 and 1832, with preference given to projects involving authors and subjects covered in the Keats-Shelley Journal bibliography.

The awards honour the late Carl H. Pforzheimer. Jr., a past President of the Keats-Shelley Association and among its vigorous advocates. He also headed The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc., long distinguished for funding scholarships centred red on early nineteenth-century English literature.

For further information, applicants may write to: The Grants Administrator, Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc., Room 226, The New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018-2788

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Prince Charles: Patron of the KSMA

We are delighted to announce that His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has agreed to extend his term as Patron of the Association for a further five years until June 2015.

He has long taken an interest in the Keats-Shelley House, since the days when his grandmother, The Queen Mother, was our first Patron. His renewed support gives a special impulse to our activities in the UK, Italy and in all the countries where the young English Romantics are read and remembered.

Prince Charles signs the guestbook at the House,

                              with the Curator and Arch Roberto Einaudi

                                     The Duchess of Cornwall, on her visit to

                               the Keats-Shelley House on 28th April 2009

                                       The Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome

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Recent Events:

Scott Brooksbank reading from Ode to a Grecian Urn, at an  evening of Romantic readings at the Soane Museum in aid of the Keats-Shelley Centenary Appeal

                                                     

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Oxford Literary Festival 2012  

A talk sponsored by Keats-Shelley Memorial Association

On March 24th, sponsored by KSMA, the novelist Benjamin Markovits gave a talk at the Oxford Literary Festival on his exhilarating trilogy of Byron-inspired novels,of which the latest is Childish Loves.

 

Ben Markovits (writes Sue Bradbury) was born in America, but (like his hero Byron, one could say) he had a peripatetic life in more ways than one. Brought up in Texas, London and Berlin, he left a career as a professional basket ball player to embrace the Romantic poets in general and Byron in particular. He has taught English in high school, edited a cultural magazine and written essays, stories and reviews for, among others, the New York Times, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.

 

His trilogy began with “Imposture”, in which we meet – or rather experience Byron – through his doctor, John Polidori. In the second novel, “A Quiet Adjustment”, we get to know him through his hapless wife, Annabella Milbanke, and in Childish Loves Byron speaks for himself at various key moments throughout his life, up to his premature death. All three are enthralling books, and they beg a particularly enthralling question: is the telling of some lives better suited to fiction than biography…

 

Childish Loves is published by Faber & Faber, £14.99.  

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Centenary Appeal: Target of £237,000 now reached!

Due to many individual donations and in particular to two major and outstandingly generous ones made towards the Appeal, by The Foyle Foundation and The Monument Trust, we have now reached target!  £237,000 has been raised for our programme of renovations at the Keats-Shelley House.  These, in April 2012, are now reaching completion, with the reclamation of the First Floor Terrace being the final phase.[Newsletter February 2012: New Curator Giuseppe Albano’s First Impressions of the Keats-Shelley House: p.3 of February 2012 Newsletter]. But we continue to welcome donations for the future development of the House: see House in Rome page for the message from our new Curator, Dr Giuseppe Albano.

Centenary donors 2008-2011:

Lord & Lady Abinger, Isla Lady Abin­ger, Ms Jane Ades, Lady Anderson, Mr Stephen Aviss, Mr A.S.J. Baker, Mr & Mrs Barber, Mrs Wanda Barford, Mr & Mrs Nicholas Baring, Ms Hanna Bhatti, Lady Rachel Billington, Sir Christopher Bland, Herr Professor Doktor Christopher Bode, Dr Richard Boeke, Mr Mark Borg, Lord Boswell of Aynho, Mr Nigel Brassard, The Lady Braye, Ms Emily M. Brewer, Viscountess Bridgeman, Mr J.N Brown, Mr Richard Broyd OBE , Mr William T. Buice 111, Mr and Mrs Tim Burnett, Viscount & Viscountess Camrose, Miss Lucy Carrington, Mr & Mrs Charles Cary-Elwes, Mr Charles Cator, Mr Roderick Cavaliero, Ms Cynthia Cavanaugh, Lord Charles Cecil, Mrs Mary Clow, The Cochomé Trust, The John S. Cohen Foundation, Mr & Mrs Nicholas Cooper, Ms Shirley Corke, Mr Stephen Creed, Mr Brian Cronwall, Mr Lawrence M. Crutcher,  Professor Stuart A. Curran, Professor Laura S. Dabundo, Mr Peter J. Davey, Mrs S.J. Dawkins, Mrs J. Dicks, Professor Paul Douglass, Mr Martin Drury CBE, Mr J.H. Earl, Mr C.M. Ed­goose, Mr Paul Edwards, Lady Egerton OBE, Mr & Mrs Simon Enthoven, Mr Charles Evans, Dr A. Fache, Sir Patrick Fairweather KCMG, Lady Fairweather, Mr Duncan Fallowell, Mr & Mrs Mark Le Fanu, Mrs Diane Farrow, Professor Michael. K. Ferber, Professor & Mrs Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Miss V.A. Finch, Dr Doucet Fisher, Dr Tamara Follini, Mr Edward Fordyce, Mr & Mrs Christopher Foyle, The Foyle Foundation, Mrs Virginia Fraser, Mr Clark Gale, Mr & Mrs Anthony Gardner, Mrs Christine Gee MBE, The Lord Gladwyn, Mr John Gohorry & Mrs Madeleine Smith, Professor Leonard S. Goldberg, Mrs M.J. Goldney, Mr Clement T. Goode, Mrs E.J. Gowlland, Ms Penelope Graham, Mr & the Hon Mrs Grimond, Mrs Valerie Grove, The Hon Kieran Guinness, Mrs K. Gyngell, Sir Rupert Hanson, Mr & Mrs Allan Harkness, Mr Robert A. Hartley, Mr Giles Havergal, Mrs Ursula Hazeel, Dr N.J. Healey, Professor Jonathan E. Hill, Ms Suzanne Hodgart, Lord Howard of Rising, Mrs Rowenna Hulton, Mr D. Hunter, Ms M.R. Huxted, Dr Elizabeth James, Professor Suzuna Jimbo, Mr & Mrs Laurence Kelly FRSL FRSL, Mrs D.M. Kidd, Dr A.N. Kincaid, Ms Jessica Kingsley, Ms Naomi Kitcher, Miss L. Kronidov, Mr John A. Knox, Professor Scott Krawczyk, Mr George Krupp, Mr & Mrs Alastair Laing, The Leche Trust, Hon Sir Mark Lennox Boyd, Professor Brian Livesley MD FRCP, Mrs Melissa Lloyd, Mrs Irene Loftus, Ms Helen Lovelock-Burke, Mrs W.V. Lusted, Ms Fiona McCarthy OBE, Mrs Heather McDonald, Mr M.I. McGre­gor, Professor Peter Manning, Professor A.A. Mar­kley, Mrs P.E. May, Mr & Mrs F.J. Mayor, Mr & Mrs James Miller, Ms Susan Miller, Mr Iain Milligan, The Monument Trust, Hon Mrs Fionn Morgan, Mrs J.M. Morris, Mrs Susan Mordaunt Crook, Rt. Rev. Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, Mr Anthony Newall, Rt. Rev Brian Noble, Mr Michael Noo­nan, The Marquis of Normanby, Ms Pamela Norris, Viscountess Norwich, Mr Simon Oddie, Professor Lance Ormand, Mr & Mrs Michael Pearce, Lady Pearson, Miss J.D. Pepall, Lord & Lady Phillimore, Mr Peter Phillips, Mr & Mrs Nick Powell, Mr. D. Preddy, Mr J.C. Price, Mr. Kenneth Prichard Jones, Mr H.J.S. Proctor, Mrs Isabel Quigley, Ms Pam Redmond, Mr Mark Reynolds, Mrs D.J. Robertson-Rodger, Professor Charles E. Robinson, Mrs Joan Ruddle, Mr Richard Russell CVO, Mrs E.M. Salimberi, Mr David Satherley, Mr R.D. Schwartz, Dr Matthew Scott, Ms Elisa Segrave FRSL, Professor Richard C. Sha, Mr Paul D. Sheats, Sir John Shepherd KCVO & Lady Shepherd, Mr Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, Mr Henry Smith, Mrs Stuart Sperry, Mrs Jan Spooner, Professor J. Stevens Curl, Mrs Nicholas Stewart, Mrs Christopher Stobart, Dr Stoddard Martin, Mrs Ann Stone, Dr & Mrs Neil Stratford, Mr Mark Studer, Mr Patrick Sullivan, Mr & Mrs Charles Swallow, Mr Simon Taylor, Mr Douglas Tilden, Dr & Mrs Tong, Lady Juliet Townsend LVO, Miss K.R. Treadwell, Mr Raleigh Trevelyan, Mr Simon Vegro, Professor Helen Vendler, Professor Constance Walker, Mr & Mrs Antony Wedgwood, The Hon Mrs Simon Weinstock, Mr & Mrs Steven Weissman, Earl & Countess of Wemyss & March, Mrs Sue Whitley OBE, Mrs Sally Williams, Mrs Tara Williams, Professor (Emeritus) and Mrs Jason Wilson, Viscount Windsor, Mrs Joan Winterkorn, Mr Gabriel Woolf & Dame Felicity Lott, Mr & Mrs Daniel Worsley, Mr Tony Yablon, Mr C. S. Yeo, Mr Bill Zachs, Ms Ruth Zelenak,

 

and other generous donors who wish to remain anonymous.

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The Keats Foundation

The Keats Foundation was established in 2010 to support Keats House Hampstead, particularly educational activities of all kinds based at or originating in the House that was Keats's home at Hampstead from 1818 to 1820. Its Chairman is Professor Nicholas Roe, Editor of the Keats-Shelley Review, the official bi-annual journal of KSMA, which takes care of the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.

Different but complementary, the two Houses where Keats spent his last years have strong and long-standing links that are continued by the activities  of the Keats Foundation and the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association.

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Awards Ceremony for Keats-Shelley Price 2011 October 18th:

The winners of the annual Keats-Shelley Prizes was announced on 18th October at 2 Carlton House Terrace in London, by the Chairman of the Judges, Penelope Lively CBE.  Prizes were awarded to the value of £3,000. The first prize in poetry went to the Yorkshire poet and sculptor and Hawthornden Fellow Pat Borthwick, for "Lord Leighton brings Arabia to Holland Park". Second was the American born poet Mary Rozmus West, for "An Optical Allusion", and third was another Yorkshire poet, Carole Bromley, for "Tom Makes His Mark". First prize winner in the essays category was third-year undergraduate Priyanka Soni, for "Natura Naturata: Shelley's Philosophy of the Mind in Creation", second was Alex Latter, a post-graduate doctoral student, for "An Untoward Fate: on Keats' Posthumous Prosification", third was an Oxford graduate Russell Clarke, for "A Dialogue between Biographia Literaria and Don Juan".

Making the presentations, Penelope Lively commented: "The poetry, on the theme of Glass, was wonderfully varied - no two entries even remotely similar, prompted by marbles, stained glass, glass blowing, reflections in a lover’s eye, much else. Hard indeed to choose a winner. The essays, on themes prompted by Keats, Shelley, Byron and their circle, were clearly argued, erudite and frequently illuminating. “

After presenting the prizes, she gave a talk on "The Novelist's Relation with Poetry".

 

Poetry winner Pat Borthwick

with Penelope Lively

Essays winner Priyanka Soni with Penelope Lively

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