George Chapman
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Drama, Theater, Playwrights, Poetry, Poets
- Curriculum: British History, Renaissance History
Article abstract: Best remembered because his translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey inspired John Keats to write a well-known sonnet, George Chapman also was a poet and dramatist whose tragedies reflected his classical background.
Early Life
George Chapman was born about 1559, probably in or near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, where his well-connected family had lived for decades. His father, Thomas Chapman, was a local landowner; his mother Joan was the daughter of George Nodes, sergeant of the buckhounds to King Henry VIII and later monarchs....
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