...bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure...out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared...

...Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne2; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard...out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies ' Chapman's Homer: George Chapman, Klizabethan poet, translated Homer. 'demesne: realm. When...

...conveyed as the high thin vowels of "breathe" and "serene" drop to sonorous "o"s in "loud" and "bold": "Yet did I never breathe its pure serene / Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold" (7-8). Hunt's polemic for older values is matched by the way the ensuing sestet promotes...

...bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Keats is speaking here from the point of view of one who enjoys a work of art. Poetry is...

...expanse had I l>een told, That rteep-hrow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe his pure serene, Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold ; Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortex, when with e«gle eyes He stared...

...and a moment of transformation: Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold. Keats has - for all his journeys through poetry - only 'been told' about Homer, a basic schoolboy...

...landscape: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken: Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men I^ook'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien. (Keats 1921:38) The replacement...

...bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene...out loud and bold; Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared...

...Apollo21 hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;22 Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard...out loud and bold. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies23 When a new planet swims into his ken;24 10 12 Roe, Keats and History, pp. 184-5. 13 Ibid.,p....

...would be immortalised by Keats in his sonnet 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer': . , , Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men Look'd at each other wirt a wild surmrse Silent, upon a peak in Darien. the Glencoe Massacre, and King William was still...