Posted by Adam Quinan on April 22, 1999 at 11:22:28:
In Reply to: Re: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats - posted by Brian Maskell on April 22, 1999 at 10:43:48:
Keats' poem describes the feeling of reading Homer for the first time as being like the explorer who first saw the great Pacific Ocean spread out in front of him from a peak in Darien, Central America. Darien is not from the Odyssey. And it wasn't really stout Cortez but Balboa who first saw the Pacific, except that I am sure there were a lot of other indigenous people who had seen the Pacific and never bothered to tell Keats about it!