I long to feast upon old Homer, as we have upon Shakespeare, and as I have lately upon Milton.-if you understood Greek, and would read me passages, now and then, explaining their meaning, 't would be, from its mistiness, perhaps a greater luxury than reading the thing one's self.-I shall be happy when I can do the same for you. I: 1814-1818 (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1958 rpt. Goldhill doesn't identify which edition of Keats' Letters he's using.įrom the Look Inside! feature on, I find a slightly different version of the quotation in Hyder Edward Rollins, ed., The Letters of John Keats, Vol. If you understood Greek and would read me passages, now and then, explaining their meaning, 'twould be, from its mustiness, perhaps a greater luxury than reading the thing one's self.' 31 Two years later, in 1818, Keats wrote to Reynolds 'I long to feast on old Homer. Simon Goldhill, Who Needs Greek? Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 rpt.
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