John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

First published at 08:36 UTC on October 3rd, 2019.
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Recorded in October 2019. Written in 1816.

"Keats's generation was familiar enough with the polished literary translation of Alexander Pope, which gave Homer an urbane gloss similar to Virgil, expressed in heroic couplets. Chapman's …

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CategoryArts & Literature
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