Explore "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" by Alice Meynell on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
MUCH have I travelled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen:
Round many western islands have I been
Which 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 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 Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific-and all his men / Looked on each other with a wild surmise- / Silent, upon a peak in Darien.