On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer - J. Keats

166 On First Looking Into Chapmans Homer
The first poem of Book Fourth.
The one-hundred and sixty-sixth poem in the collection. (* additional details below)

NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

stout Cortez: History requires here Balbóa: (A.T.) It may be noticed, that to find in Chapman's Homer the "pure serene" of the original, the reader must bring with him the imagination of the youthful poet;—he must be "a Greek himself," as Shelley finely said of Keats.