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 "title": "On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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  "year": 1817,
  "venue": "Poems (1817)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,",
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    "text": "And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;",
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    "text": "Round many western islands have I been",
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   {
    "text": "Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.",
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    "text": "Oft of one wide expanse had I been told",
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    "text": "That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne:",
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    "text": "Yet did I never breathe its pure serene",
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    "text": "Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:",
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    "text": "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies",
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    "text": "When a new planet swims into his ken;",
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    "text": "Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes",
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   {
    "text": "He star’d at the Pacific⁠—and all his men",
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    "text": "Look’d at each other with a wild surmise⁠—",
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    "text": "Silent, upon a peak in Darien.",
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