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'''On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer''' is a poem written by [[John Keats]], first published in 1816.  It is an [[Italian Sonnet]].   
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'''On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer''' is a poem written by [[John Keats]], first published in 1816.  It is an [[Italian Sonnet]].  Keats makes the mistake of claiming that it was Cortez who discovered the Pacific, when it was really [[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]].
    
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer  
 
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer  
   
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
 
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
 
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
 
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
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