Letter: Keats is given the squeeze in Rome

Sunday 27 December 1992 19:02 EST

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Sir: Two references to Roman lettering on monuments in Rome were made in the article 'Is the writing on the wall for public inscriptions?' (16 December). May I add to the list the inscription on Keats's headstone in the English Cemetery in Rome.

Its layout is muddled, with a mixture of styles, and the quotation 'whose name was writ in water' has been squeezed into an inadequate space, to the detriment of the lettering, and the whole composition is incomparably

mediocre.

How much more elegant and eloquent is the nearby headstone to Joseph Severn.

Yours faithfully,

O. BUGLASS

Worcester

17 December

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