初读查普曼译荷马史诗有感
我曾游历过许多黄金般的王国， 看见过众多美好的城邦和国度, 还曾周游过许多西方的岛屿 那是诗人的地域来俯首阿波罗。 我常听说有一片广阔无垠的土地， 眉锁深邃的荷马在那里统治。 但我从未呼吸过那里清新的空气 直到传来查普曼的声音宏亮有力： 我就如同有了观星者的感应 一个新的星体划入了我的视线， 或又变成了考帝兹那双眼如鹰 注视着太平洋——以及他的成员
惊讶地彼此相视，进入狂想的意境， 沉默不语——倚靠在达利安山巅。
译者：甜甜
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific- and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise- Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
by John Keats