...has come down to posterity. Many are acquainted with the sonnet of Keats — "Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Bound many western islands have I been, Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse...

...wins The casual treasure from the furrow'd soil. W. Wordimorth. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold And many...loud and bold : — Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez— when with eagle eyes He stared...

...Homer" of October 1816, Keats had already pictured the Homeric epic as a wide island in a sea of poetry: Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many...hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep — brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman...

...note waiting for him. It was a perfectly turned sonnet from his fellow reader: Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and...hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman...

...travell'd in the realms of gold. And many gondly states and kingdoms seeu; Round many western isl:tnds have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold....That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did l never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some...

...Keats bestows an equal share of credit: Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep— brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe...its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.'9 FO Matthiessen goes so far as to suggest that some of the best Elizabethan translations,...

...OF VISION IN VIRGIL'S Aeneid THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK CHAPTER I Prophaenomena ad Vergilium Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many...out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd...

...manuscript edition of "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," John Keats made similar drawings:58 Much have I travell'd in the Realms of Gold, And many...Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told, Which deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his Demesne; Yet could I never judge what Men could mean; Till I heard...

...schaffen. Der Anfang ließe sich einem Eichendorffschen Gedichteinsatz wenigstens vergleichen (1-4): Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many...have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. 155 So versteht man nicht, warum W. Kohlschmidt Mörikes „nachromantisches Vergänglichkeitsbewußtsein"...

...mythology of Greece. Its opening quatrain picks up a familiar motif from the early poems : Much have 1 travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states...have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. (1-4) The old poets are imagined as occupying 'realms of gold', enchanted landscapes through which...