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| | Keats's Forgotten Friend -- Monday, Jun. 26, 1944 -- Page 1 -- TIME |
 | | The affection for Keats with which it is suffused, its portrait of the gentle, sturdy, unworldly, innocent and perceptive Severn, its wonderful picture of Severn's happy family life make it a biography as tender and moving as any in recent literature. |
 | | Severn was a kindly, religious, cheerful man with a spontaneous gift for admiration which, for the moment, focused on Keats. |
 | | Once Severn, who was himself ill (he had had typhus and a liver com plaint), came upon Keats during a hemorrhage and stumbled away to the stern of the ship, because the sight of so much suffering was unbearable. |
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