George Chapman
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1559?
- Died
- 1634
- Works
- 149
Top works
- The Iliads of Homer, prince of poets
- Hero and Leandaer
- Eastward Ho
- All fools
- A pleasant comedy entituled: An humerous dayes myrth
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,624x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,717x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 39,972x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 26,885x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 22,997x
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Quotes
- “O incredulity! the wit of fools,That slovenly will spit on all things fair,The coward’s castle, and the sluggard’s cradle.”
- “Homer's poems were writ from a free fury, an absolute and full soul; Virgil's out of a courtly, laborious, and altogether imitatory spirit: not a simile he hath but is Homer's; not an invention, person, or disposition but is wholly or originally built upon Homerical foundations, and in many places hath the very words Homer useth.”
- “Virtue is not malicious; wrong done herIs righted even when men grant they err.”
- “For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,One passion doth expel another still.”
- “Let no man value at a little priceA virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spiritIs feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.”
- “Great goddess, to whose throne in Cynthian fires,This earthly altar endless fumes expires;Therefore, in fumes of sighs and fires of grief,To fearful chances thou send'st bold relief,Happy, thrice happy type, and nurse of death,Who, breathless, feeds on nothing but our breath,In whom must virtue and her issue live,Or die for ever.”
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Key facts
- Born
- c. 1559 , Hitchin , Hertfordshire, England
- Died
- ( 1634-05-12 ) 12 May 1634, London, England
- Occupation
- Writer
- Period
- Elizabethan
- Genre
- Tragedy, translation
- Notable works
- Bussy D'Ambois Homer's Odysses
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to George Chapman, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
George Chapman (c. 1559 – 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman is seen as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. He is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia.
Shakespeare was a contemporary of Chapman, and there is evidence that he knew some of Chapman's work. William Minto proposed Chapman as a candidate for being the "Rival Poet" mentioned in Shakespeare's sonnets.
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