Word: chaterton
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...pride and regret and with 'a bowed mind' to the memory of the most English of Poets except Shakespeare, Thomas Chatterton." Fearing that such an inscription would arouse controversy, Keats' publisher induced him to change his dedication so that it would merely read, "To the Memory of Thomas Chaterton", and it was thus when the poem was published; the manuscript at Widener is the only one with the inscription as the poet planned...
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