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The Homeric Challenge: On Keats’ “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer”

On first look­ing into Chapman’s Homer John Keats Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and king­doms seen; Round many west­ern islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet

Time and Change: On Keats’ “The Human Seasons”

The Human Sea­sons John Keats Four Sea­sons fill the mea­sure of the year; There are four sea­sons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Sum­mer, when lux­u­ri­ously Spring’s honey’d cud of youth­ful thought he loves To rumi­nate, and

Regarding Love and The Birth of Art: On Keats’ “To Autumn”

To Autumn John Keats I. Sea­son of mists and mel­low fruit­ful­ness, Close bosom-friend of the matur­ing sun; Con­spir­ing with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and