whiteruminations:Original manuscript version of John Keats’ ‘On First Looking into Chapman&rsq
whiteruminations:Original manuscript version of John Keats’ ‘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 did I never 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. Source: http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/chapmanshomer.html -- source link
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