But he's also setting up some of the imagery of an explorer, which he will return to at the end. He's saying that he's read a lot of books in his day, but hadn't seen nothing until ol' Chapman came around. From the title, we understand that he is talking about the realms of literature and art. What are "realms of gold"? Well, a couple of things, most likely. There's also a metaphor right off the bat.
If this poem were written a hundred years earlier, it probably would have been called "Chapman's Homer." But Keats wants to talk about his experience reading the book. We don't mean that too rudely, it's just that, in contrast to previous generations who wrote about the external world, they wrote about their own experience. The Romantics were notoriously self-centered.
In this case, though, it's just like Keats to start us off with a reference to himself.Even when a poem is written in first person, that poet could be speaking in character. Now, it's never a good idea to confuse speaker and poet.
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