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Today’s Poem: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Today’s Poem: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

John Keats’s wild surmise

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“Upon a Peak in Darien,” illustration from the 1905 Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (1841-1925) (Wikimedia Commons)

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