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On First Looking into Chapmanās Homer
poem by Keats
On First Looking into Chapmanās Homer, sonnet by John Keats, first published in The Examiner in 1816 and later published in Poems (1817), Keatsās first collection. Considered the poetās first mature poem, the sonnet was inspired by Keatsās having pored over a 1616 folio edition of George Chapmanās English translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is Keatsās response to heroism.
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