On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
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"On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer" is a sonnet by John Keats that celebrates the transformative wonder he felt upon discovering Homer’s epics through George Chapman’s vigorous Elizabethan translation.
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| On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Context triple: [John Keats, notableWork, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer]
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The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
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Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a famous 1926 lyric poem by Archibald MacLeish that meditates on the nature and purpose of poetry, encapsulated in its dictum that "a poem should not mean but be."
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The Apotheosis of Homer
The Apotheosis of Homer is a neoclassical painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres that idealizes the ancient Greek poet Homer enthroned and venerated by great figures from art and literature.
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The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry
The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry is a major unfinished painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown that allegorically celebrates the development and legacy of English literature.
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Prolegomena ad Homerum
Prolegomena ad Homerum is Friedrich August Wolf’s groundbreaking 1795 philological study that challenged the traditional view of Homeric authorship and helped found modern classical scholarship.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Target entity description: "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer" is a sonnet by John Keats that celebrates the transformative wonder he felt upon discovering Homer’s epics through George Chapman’s vigorous Elizabethan translation.
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A.
The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
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B.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a famous 1926 lyric poem by Archibald MacLeish that meditates on the nature and purpose of poetry, encapsulated in its dictum that "a poem should not mean but be."
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C.
The Apotheosis of Homer
The Apotheosis of Homer is a neoclassical painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres that idealizes the ancient Greek poet Homer enthroned and venerated by great figures from art and literature.
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D.
The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry
The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry is a major unfinished painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown that allegorically celebrates the development and legacy of English literature.
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E.
Prolegomena ad Homerum
Prolegomena ad Homerum is Friedrich August Wolf’s groundbreaking 1795 philological study that challenged the traditional view of Homeric authorship and helped found modern classical scholarship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
poem
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sonnet ⓘ |
| alludesTo |
George Chapman
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Hernán Cortés ⓘ Homer ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ stout Cortez standing upon a peak in Darien ⓘ |
| author | John Keats ⓘ |
| celebrates | Elizabethan vigor of Chapman’s translation ⓘ |
| comparesExperienceTo |
astronomical discovery
ⓘ
geographical exploration ⓘ |
| contrasts | second-hand knowledge with direct experience ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1 December 1816 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1816 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Examiner ⓘ |
| focusesOn | reader’s emotional response to art ⓘ |
| form | Petrarchan sonnet ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | reading Chapman’s translation of Homer aloud ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
allusion
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enjambment ⓘ imagery ⓘ metaphor ⓘ simile ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| openingLine | Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold ⓘ |
| partOf | John Keats’s early poems ⓘ |
| period | early Romantic period ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ABBA ABBA CDCDCD ⓘ |
| setIn | imaginative landscapes ⓘ |
| structure | octave and sestet ⓘ |
| subject |
George Chapman
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surface form:
George Chapman’s translation of Homer
Homer’s epics ⓘ |
| theme |
awe at literary discovery
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imaginative exploration ⓘ the sublime ⓘ transformative power of reading ⓘ |
| tone |
ecstatic
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reverent ⓘ |
| usesSimile |
like some watcher of the skies
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like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes ⓘ |
| writtenByAtAge | 21 ⓘ |
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