The Keats-Shelley Association of America (K-SAA) emerged from a coalition of scholars, critics, bibliophiles, editors, students, teachers – all engaged with the brilliant accomplishments of Keats and Shelley and, more practically, working to purchase and endow the maintenance of the Keats House in Rome (26 Piazza di Spagna, where Keats lived his last months), and provide ongoing care of the poets’ graves in Rome’s Protestant Cemetery. In 1949 the American Committee was incorporated as the Keats-Shelley Association of America.