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George Chapman

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1560-1634English poet and playwright whose considerable learning , combined with a belief that the true meaning of poetry need travel itself only to the few, made his work notoriously difficult and often obscurehis poem Ovid Banquet of Sense 1595, obliquely advocates true platonism as a counter to Ovidian eroticismChapman in his translation of Homer's works, interprets the ethical and philosophical views which he believed to be inherited in the Homeric originalhis part-authorship , with Jonson and Joseph Marston, of Eastward Ho 1605, a splendid city comedy, he was imprisonedGeorge Chapman (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, c. 1559 – London, 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. Chapman is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia..

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