Thomas Marks

‘The tightest topographic tangle in the world’

Genoa

22 April 2017 9:00 am

Some say Genoa takes its name from Janus, the two-faced god of time and doorways. Perhaps. What’s certain is the…

A kind of posthumous existence: a death mask of Keats, sold at auction for £16,100 in 1996

The Romantic poets

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

People can be mightily protective of their Romantic poets. When I worked at the Keats Shelley House, overlooking the Spanish…