Alessandro Gallenzi

Written in Water: Keats’s Final Journey, published in September 2022 (hardback)
Revised and expanded edition (paperback): June 2024

Despite its unprecedented archive research, Written in Water’s best quality is, as expressed in its title, its fluidity. Ideas are argued here that may lead other researchers towards new discoveries. – The Keats-Shelley Review

his integrity as a researcher is a welcome addition to scholarship – Christy Edwall, Times Literary Supplement

superbly researched… crisply written… a work of vivid and absorbing scholarship, [which] serves as a stringent corrective to the mass of lazy scholarship that proliferates on Keats by the day. Anyone interested in Rome and the Romantic poets will gain much from reading it. Terrific. – Ian Thomson, The Tablet

Enthralling and original… Gallenzi’s meticulous commitment to his subject shines through. Although he presents himself as something of an embattled outsider, he is working within, and contributing to, a long tradition of Keats scholarship. There’s no doubt that all Keatsians will appreciate the new details and insights he adds to our picture of the poet’s last five months. – Lucasta Miller, The Spectator

            

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