In loose-limbed English

摘要

In 1817, John Keats, an English poet, was so taken by an Elizabethan verse translation of "deep-browed" Homer that he published a sonnet in its honour entitled "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". Keats said that reading the book had given him such a combined sense of shock and uplift that he felt like "some watcher of the skies/When a new planet swims into his ken".