On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
John Keats * Track #1 On Poems: Published 1817
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Album Poems: Published 1817
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
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The Romantic Poets
Keats was one of the ‘big six’ Romantic Poets, the others being Shelley, Worsdsworh, Coleridge, Blake and Byron.
A tenet of Romantic poetry is its focus on nature, on the supernatural and man’s insignificance in comparison to the natural world. It was a turbulent time when the Na...
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Annotated
Much have I travelled 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-browed 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 stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
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When did John Keats release On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer?
John Keats released On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer on Tue Oct 01 1816.