The new planet described is Uranus, which had been discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, while Darién is in eastern Panama and was the site of Balboa's sighting of the Pacific Ocean for the first time, not Cortez's.* The description of the western islands sacred to Apollo is to set up a contrast with the East Indies which were the goals of both Balboa and Cortez. The work is a Petrarchan sonnet and was initially rejected because the poet had not been classically trained and was forced to read translations rather than the original Greek. FTP, name this poem by John Keats.
The new planet described is Uranus, which had been discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, while Darién is in eastern Panama and was the site of Balboa's sighting of the Pacific Ocean for the first time, not Cortez's.* The description of the western islands sacred to Apollo is to set up a contrast with the East Indies which were the goals of both Balboa and Cortez. The work is a Petrarchan sonnet and was initially rejected because the poet had not been classically trained and was forced to read translations rather than the original Greek. FTP, name this poem by John Keats.
The new planet described is Uranus, which had been discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, while Darién is in eastern Panama and was the site of Balboa's sighting of the Pacific Ocean for the first time, not Cortez's.
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer