"On first looking into Chapman's Homer," John Keats


	"On first looking into Chapman's Homer," John Keats

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5-11-2008 8:58 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/11560454-4f2a-4b99-8a5c-ab4549a283b4/DBF5FF06-E500-4AAB-AD74-119922667F45/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://inrethinking.blogspot.com/2007/08/homeric-challenge-on-keats-first.html" href="http://inrethinking.blogspot.com/2007/08/homeric-challenge-on-keats-first.html" style="font-size: 11px;">inrethinking.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://inrethinking.blogspot.com/2007/08/homeric-challenge-on-keats-first.html"><B>On first looking into Chapman's Homer</B><BR /><DIV><I>John Keats</I></DIV><BR />Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,	 <BR />And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;	 <BR />Round many western islands have I been	 <BR />Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.	 <BR />Oft of one wide expanse had I been told	         <BR />That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne:	 <BR />Yet did I never breathe its pure serene	 <BR />Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:	 <BR />Then felt I like some watcher of the skies	 <BR />When a new planet swims into his ken;	  <BR />Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes	 <BR />He stared at the Pacific—and all his men	 <BR />Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—	 <BR /><DIV>Silent, upon a peak in Darien.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DBF5FF06-E500-4AAB-AD74-119922667F45/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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