Infinitum » Poerty http://blog.andrewhastie.com A world of possibilities Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:07:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Keats: On first looking into Chapman’s Homer http://blog.andrewhastie.com/poerty/keats-on-first-looking-into-chapman%e2%80%99s-homer http://blog.andrewhastie.com/poerty/keats-on-first-looking-into-chapman%e2%80%99s-homer#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:05:33 +0000 andy http://blog.andrewhastie.com/uncategorized/keats-on-first-looking-into-chapman%e2%80%99s-homer Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 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.

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