English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
John Keats
537. On First Looking into Chapmans Homer
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And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne:
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez—when with eagle eyes
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.