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Re: Fw: [NABOKV-L] Unearthing Chapman's homer? Balboa and Muscat
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Stout-hearted, mayhap? Also consider that if you sail across the
Atlantic, crawl through the Panamanian hills to a crest spanning the
isthmus, you would be facing west and it would be the Pacific that
your eagle eye would fall on.
On Nov 5, 2006, at 10:16 AM, jansymello wrote:
> He wrote about "stout Cortez" staring at the Pacific Ocen from a
> peak in Darien.Perhaps Cortez was as stout as Shade, but it was
> Balboa who came across the Pacific Ocean.
>
> [Certain scholars argue that Keats choose Cortez to create a
> juxtaposition to Chapman's translation of Homer, who only delights
> him when Chapman's translation makes his Odyssey available to him.
> Cortez conquered Mexico and this may brings to our minds the
> Aztecs, whose civilization could be compared with the ancient Greek
> culture. Other studious ask why, other than the rhyme scheme, did
> Keats select Darien, an area of Panama settled by the Scots in the
> seventeenth century...]
Steven
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Atlantic, crawl through the Panamanian hills to a crest spanning the
isthmus, you would be facing west and it would be the Pacific that
your eagle eye would fall on.
On Nov 5, 2006, at 10:16 AM, jansymello wrote:
> He wrote about "stout Cortez" staring at the Pacific Ocen from a
> peak in Darien.Perhaps Cortez was as stout as Shade, but it was
> Balboa who came across the Pacific Ocean.
>
> [Certain scholars argue that Keats choose Cortez to create a
> juxtaposition to Chapman's translation of Homer, who only delights
> him when Chapman's translation makes his Odyssey available to him.
> Cortez conquered Mexico and this may brings to our minds the
> Aztecs, whose civilization could be compared with the ancient Greek
> culture. Other studious ask why, other than the rhyme scheme, did
> Keats select Darien, an area of Panama settled by the Scots in the
> seventeenth century...]
Steven
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