George Chapman

George Chapman (c. 1559–1634) was an English poet, dramatist and translator. He wrote comedies and tragedies for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and is best remembered for his translations of Homer, the Iliad (1611) and the Odyssey (1614–15), whose rolling fourteeners were celebrated by Keats in his sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.”

After Christopher Marlowe's death in 1593 left Hero and Leander unfinished, Chapman completed it in four further Sestiads, published in 1598. His Homer translations are kept in this archive under Homer, with his translator credit; here he appears as a poet in his own right through his continuation of Marlowe's poem.