Class 6: Some English Romantics (3) Keats

Class 6: Some English Romantics (3) Keats

Keats's sonnet, 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer', expresses the sheer sense of awe and delight Ancient Greece provoked in the Romantic Poets.

As usual, the British Library provides a useful panorama of the question.

 

You can read how Keats discovered Homer in this other useful article from the BL.

 

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