 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? SONNETS. L ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...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... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 1999 - 306 pages
...thy haunts two kindred spirits flee. 302. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...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... | |
 | Simon Goldhill - 2002 - 340 pages
...it: the glance and not the studied gaze. What form of attention is Keats holding up to your scrutiny? Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold And many...have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Keats came from a lower-class and poorly educated background, but 'even if we were ignorant of Keats'... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1843 - 686 pages
...of Flaxmun, carefully reduced, and engraved by Jackson, add to the interest of this republication. ' Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold. And many goodly states ami kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards, In fealty to Apollo liold.... | |
 | Sharon Bryan, William Olsen - 2003 - 378 pages
...books, especially as he suggests in his "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"— Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had 1 been told That deep-browed Homer ruled in his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till... | |
 | Esther Sánchez-Pardo - 2003 - 510 pages
...facilitate the follow-up of Klein's reading: "Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, / And many godly states and kingdoms seen; / Round many western islands...expanse had I been told / That deep-brow'd Homer ruled at his demesne: / Yet did I never breathe its pure serene / Till l heard Chapman speak out loud and... | |
 | John R. Strachan - 2003 - 218 pages
...with William Robertson's History of America ( 1 777). Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,19 1 And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty20 to Apollo21 hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 2003 - 219 pages
...the nun herself, recalling the credentials of experience and knowledge that open Keats's sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" — "Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold."22 With his experience thus validated, he ventriloquizes the voice of oppressed humanity through... | |
 | Christoph Loreck - 2005 - 236 pages
...Homer" of October 1816, Keats had already pictured the Homeric epic as a wide island in a sea of poetry: Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many...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... | |
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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... 
