Difference between revisions of "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"

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-'''"On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"''' is a poem written by [[John Keats]], first published in 1816.  It is in the form of an [[Italian Sonnet]].  In the poem, Keats makes the mistake of claiming that it was [[Cortez]] who discovered the [[Pacific]], when it was really [[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]].
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-  <big>On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
-  Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
-  And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
-  Round many western islands have I been
-  Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
-  Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
-  That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
-  Yet never did I breathe its pure serene
-  Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
-  Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
-  When a new planet swims into his ken;
-  Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
-  He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men
-  Look'd at each other with a wild surmise -
-  Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
-  -- John Keats</big>
-[[Category:Poetry]]