In another sonnet, this "deep-brow'd" man is called a ruler of a "wide expanse," unlike the "many goodly states and kingdoms" that the speaker has seen; that poem's speaker recalls feeling, upon reading works originally by this man, like "some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken" or "stout Cortez when with eagle eyes he star'd at the Paci c" from "a peak in Darien.
In a poem addressed to this man, the speaker sees himself "as one who sits ashore and longs . . . to visit dolphin-coral in deep seas"; that sonnet to this man ends by invoking "Dian (dy-ANN), Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell" and opens with the speaker "standing aloof in giant ignorance." In another sonnet, this "deep-brow'd" man is called a ruler of a "wide expanse," unlike the "many goodly states and kingdoms" that the speaker has seen; that poem's speaker recalls feeling, upon reading works originally by this man, like "some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken" or "stout Cortez when with eagle eyes he star'd at the Paci c" from "a peak in Darien." For 10 points, name this subject of a John Keats sonnet praising George Chapman's translation of this man's Iliad.
In a poem addressed to this man, the speaker sees himself "as one who sits ashore and longs . . . to visit dolphin-coral in deep seas"; that sonnet to this man ends by invoking "Dian (dy-ANN), Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell" and opens with the speaker "standing aloof in giant ignorance."
Homer [or Homeros]