...What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? SONNETS. i. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. Much have I...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ii. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1817. After dark vapours have oppressed...

...I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is withered from the lake And no birds sing. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH...— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmiseSilent, upon a peak in Darien. ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR. GIVE me- a golden pen,...

...difficult form of poetical expression being inspired by Chapman's picturesque and fiery translation of Homer. " Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent — upon a peak in Darien." " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," was the poetical creed of...

...difficult form of poetical expression being inspired by Chapman's picturesque and fiery translation of Homer. " Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent — upon a peak in Darien." " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," was the poetical creed of...

...haunts two kindred spirits flee. (1816) 302. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. (1816) 303. To ****** Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs...

...the occasion of the dominant image of revelation in the poem is a reading of Homer, the blind poet: Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien. 48 (p. 83) Rue de la Paix street of luxury shops in Paris 49 (p. 83)...

...month after the verse letter to Cowden Clarke, we find a surprising realization of this ideal model: Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. According to Charles Cowden Clarke's Recollections,6 the occasion...

...Oft of one wide expanse have I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet never did I breathe its pure serene Till I heard CHAPMAN speak...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent upon a peak in Darien. JOHN KEATS The Odyssey is the story of all-experiencing Odysseus (Ulysses...

...been Which 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...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 star'd...

...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...like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien....