Academia.Edu (
2016)
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Abstract
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" by John Keats, may seem archaic now, especially its
language. But it expresses the poet's delight and excitement when he discovers a new literary
revelation, hitherto hidden from him. He makes an intellectual discovery.
I've had this sense of discovery when reading philosophy. Some new approach, some new idea, has
made me see a concept I thought I understood in a different and more rigorous way; made me re-
examine what I thought I'd understood perfectly well before. It's not so much that the authors I was
reading offered the last word on the subject, more that they offered the first word.
Here are four examples.