330. On first looking into Chapmans Homer by John Keats
b'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'