On first looking into Chapmans Homer by John Keats

Published: Oct. 2, 2007, 7:22 a.m.

b"Keats read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to classic poetry.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\n On first looking into Chapman\\u2019s Homer\\nby 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\\nYou can find more readings of Keats' poetry at:\\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.wordpress.com/category/John-Keats/"