330. On first looking into Chapmans Homer by John Keats
J Keats read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\n \nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n \n---------------------------------------------------\n \n On first looking into Chapman\u2019s Homer\n by John Keats (1795 \u2013 1821)\n \n Much have I travell\u2019d in the realms of gold, \n And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; \n Round many western islands have I been \n Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. \n Oft of one wide expanse had I been told \n That deep-brow\u2019d Homer ruled as his demesne; \n Yet did I never breathe its pure serene \n Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: \n Then felt I like some watcher of the skies \n When a new planet swims into his ken; \n Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes \n He star\u2019d at the Pacific\u2014and all his men \n Look\u2019d at each other with a wild surmise\u2014 \n Silent, upon a peak in Darien. \n \n First aired: 02 October, 2007\n \n For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\n \n Reading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008