 | William Butler Yeats - English poetry - 1903 - 360 pages
...failed to find some day in some old book or on some old monument, a strange or intricate image, that had floated up before him, and grown perhaps dizzy with...suppose, the deep but a little foam upon the deep. Shelley understood this, as is proved by what he says of the eternity of beautiful things and of the... | |
 | McGill University - 1905 - 418 pages
...image that had floated up before him, and to grow perhaps dizzy with the sudden conviction that our memories are but a part of some great memory that...suppose, the deep but a little foam upon the deep." Here, as elsewhere, we cannot escape the impression that we are listening to the follower, or, at least,... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1907 - 358 pages
...book or on some old monument, a strange or intricate image, that had floated up before him, and grow perhaps dizzy with the sudden conviction that our...suppose, the deep but a little foam upon the deep. Shelley understood this, as is proved by what he says of the eternity of beautiful things and of the... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Essays - 1918 - 556 pages
...or on some old monument, a strange or intricate image, that had floated up before him, and to grow perhaps dizzy with the sudden conviction that our...suppose, the deep but a little foam upon the deep. Shelley understood this as is proved by what he says 1 'Marianne's Dream* was certainly copied from... | |
 | Eric Warner, Graham Hough - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 344 pages
...some old monument, a strange 197 or intricate image that had floated up before him, and to growperhaps dizzy with the sudden conviction that our little memories...suppose, the deep, but a little foam upon the deep. Shelley understood this, as is proved by what he says of the eternity of beautiful things and of the... | |
 | Heather Martin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 168 pages
...in his essay "Magic," and reiterated it in "The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry," where he spoke of "the sudden conviction that our little memories are...suppose, the deep, but a little foam upon the deep" (El 79). It is this memory of nature which is, Yeats continued, "the dwelling-house of symbols, of... | |
 | Margery Sabin - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 321 pages
...obscurely suggests how "profound symbols" can float up into the mind, producing a sublime dizziness: "the sudden conviction that our little memories are...suppose, the deep, but a little foam upon the deep." 21 In Joyce's version of symbolist esthetics, the rhetorical foam has thickened, the very word "deep"... | |
 | Patrick Harpur - History - 2007 - 394 pages
...pantheon; we come as microcosms of a whole macrocosm of knowledge. Our little memories, writes Yeats, 'are but a part of some great Memory that renews the world and men's thoughts age after age, and . . . our thoughts are not, as we suppose, the deep, but a little foam upon the deep'.1 For Yeats the... | |
 | William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 560 pages
...or on some old monument, a strange or intricate image, that had floated up before him, and to grow perhaps dizzy with the sudden conviction that our...suppose, the deep but a little foam upon the deep. Shelley understood this as is proved by what he says of the eternity of beautiful things and of the... | |
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... our little memories are but a part of some great Memory that renews the world and men's thoughts age after age, and that our thoughts are not, as we suppose, the deep, but a little foam upon the deep. 