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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Anthony Esolen
Jan 18
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

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Imagine that you are a passionate young man of high ideals, the young John Keats, reading all the fine poetry he can find — Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton — and then, finally, the great western forefather of them all, Homer. What would that be like?

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