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The libraries at Emory University have received what is considered the largest poetry collection ever built by a private collector, some 60,000 books, as well as tens of thousands of periodicals, manuscripts, correspondence, and other materials. Emory officials called the trove, donated by London art dealer Raymond Danowski, "breathtaking." The collection, which required four tractor trailers to transport, immediately makes Emory one of the world's most renowned destinations for the study of contemporary English-language poetry, according to Stephen Enniss, director of special collections at Emory. Highlights of the collection include a rare first printing of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855), T.S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), and Allen Ginsberg's second book, Siesta in Xbalba, which was printed on a mimeograph machine on a ship near Icy Cape, Alaska. [...]

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