Mapping Keats is an interactive web application that brings the complete correspondence of poet John Keats to life by visualizing all 252 of his surviving letters geographically, thematically, and across time. Sponsored by Dr. Amy Giroux along with Connie Harper, Brook Miller, and Brian Rejack, the project builds on the rich existing scholarship around Keats’s letters and transforms it into something explorable and engaging for researchers and curious readers alike. Visitors are greeted by a heat map showing where in the world Keats sent his letters from—and, with a toggle, where his recipients were located. A powerful query system lets users search the letters by date, place, recipient, theme, tags, or full text, with results displayed both as a list and plotted on an interactive map, filterable by location and radius. A temporal slider allows users to scroll through the span of Keats’s letter-writing life and watch his correspondence unfold chronologically. By weaving together mapping, search, and timeline visualization, Mapping Keats turns a body of two-hundred-year-old letters into a living portrait of a poet’s relationships, travels, and ideas.
