Keats could not appreciate Homer because he cannot read Greek. 1559-1634), likening the experience to that of an astronomer discovering a new planet or an explorer sighting an unknown land.
Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,Īnd many goodly states and kingdoms seen Ĭomposed when Keats was just 20 years of age, this is one of his most widely anthologised sonnets. The poem focuses on Keats’s initial encounter with an English translation of Homer’s poetry by George Chapman (c.
