Selected Poetry of George Chapman (1559?-1634)
from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services,
University of Toronto Libraries
© 2009, Ian Lancashire for the Department
of English, University of Toronto
Index to poems
- A Coronet for his Mistress, Philosophy
- The Seventeenth Book Of Homer's Odysseys
(excerpt)
- The Shadow Of Night
(excerpt)
- The Sixth Book Of Homer's Iliads
(excerpt)
Notes on Life and Works
- Burnett, Mark Thornton. “Chapman, George (1559/60-1634).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Biographical information
Given name: George
Family name: Chapman
Birth date: 1559?
Death date: 12 May 1634
Nationality: English
Languages
English
Latin
Greek
Education
Trinity College, Oxford
Cambridge
Patron: Henry Prince of Wales
Literary period: Elizabethan
Residence: Hitchin: 1559
Buried at: St Giles-in-the-Field, London
First RPO edition: 1996
