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Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.(John Keats)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20040622
Author:Plung, Daniel L.

From the 1816 publication of John Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" in Leigh Hunt's Examiner through Tennyson's famous 1861 annotation "history here requires Balboa," no issue was raised about the historical correctness of Keats's reference to Cortez. (1) Since then, dozens of critics have explored and come to diverse opinions about whether Keats intentionally substituted Cortez for Balboa. (2)

A pattern of discovery and rediscovery embedded in the sonnet may provide another key in resolving this long-standing literary debate. In "Sleep and Poetry," Keats ...

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