In the canon
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1816
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- Pages 1
"Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold," the sonnet begins, and the traveller is a twenty-year-old medical student who has no Greek. One autumn night Keats sat up with his friend Charles Cowden Clarke, reading George Chapman's Elizabethan Homer aloud until daybreak and shouting with delight at the passages that thundered.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken;
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