Douglas Bush, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600–1660 (1962), p. 63
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If Homer could return from Elysium to read all the English renderings, he would surely find in Chapman his truest son, a man who has fed on lions' marrow.

— Douglas Bush

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George Chapman

About George Chapman

George Chapman (c. 1559 – May 12, 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.