"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

On page 36 in Pale Fire, Shade writes about an article in Aunt Maude's room that reads, "Red Sox Beat Yanks 5-4 On Chapman's Homer." In class today Dr. Sexon informed us that this is not only a reference to a baseball game, but a poem by John Keats as well. Below is a copy of John Keat's poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."

John Keats. 1795–1821

MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne:
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.