Great Regulars: In the end, Keats believed that a poet is a chameleon:

A poet is "the most unpoetical thing in existence," he said. And because a poet has no identity, he is continually receding into the work of art he creates. That is the Romantic legacy we carry today, seen so clearly in a poem like "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," a sonnet that elevates intuition over reason and, in the process, turns the poet into his poem.

On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry: The passion and the power of John Keats

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