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Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".(19th-century English poet John Keats)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20010322
Author:DILWORTH, THOMAS

According to Walter Jackson Bate in 1963, in Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" "every possible echo [...] of Keats's reading" has been "exhaustively traced." [1] Yet one allusion to literary art has gone unnoticed. It occurs in, or rather consists of, the concluding extended simile, in which the poet says that, upon reading Homer in Chapman's translation, he felt

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. (l1-14) [2]

In this simile, ...

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