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KEATS COLLECTION EXHIBIT OPENS IN WIDENER JIBRARY

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Opening yesterday in the Poetry Room of Widener Library is a showing of the finest Keats collection in existence. The manuscripts and rare volumes were the center of the library formed by Amy Lowell and were the spur which led to her published study of the post.

Of most interest is the manuscript of the famous sonnet, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." In it glares the poet's notorious historical error for he had set down Cortes staring at the Pacific instead of Balboa, the rightful discoverer.

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