...Remembers Forgotten Beauty', and said, 'Michael Robartes desires to press in his arms the beauty that has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the beauty that has not yet come into the world.' There, as here in Ulysses, Yeats appears as a forerunner,...

...renunciation of his elder's vision of art, Joyce has Stephen in his diary differ from Yeats: "Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap...loveliness which has not yet come into the world" (P 251). Yet Yeats, too, envisions "a loveliness which has not yet come into the world," not only in...

...Michael Robartes's embrace of the "loveliness which has long faded from the world," desiring instead "to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world" (151). Seeking finally to "learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and...

...himself there, for instance, from his earlier enthusiasm for Yeats's visionary heroes: 'Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap...loveliness which has not yet come into the world' (P 251). It is not at all clear, however, how exactly that loveliness differs from Michael Robartes's...

...girl over his fellow students. He formulates his artistic aims at the end of his university career: "I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world" (P 251). This "loveliness," as he prepares to make his grandest flight from Ireland and the ordinary...

...the loveliness which has long since faded from the world; in response, Stephen writes in his diary, "I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world" (P 251). Robartes's desire for "forgotten beauty" is nostalgic, and Stephen's formulation avoids such...

...in recollection of Yeats's idiosyncratic mysticism and wish to create a "sacred book" of aesthetics: "I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world." The final lines—"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience...

...(from The Wind Among the Reeds), and he protests the sentiment that drives it: 142 Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap...loveliness which has not yet come into the world. (P, 2 5 1 ) Even when Stephen is at his most impressionable, he rejects Yeats's orientation toward...

...alluded to in the distinction Stephen makes between himself and Michael Robartes: "Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap...loveliness which has not yet come into the world.' The distinction here is presumably between tradition and invention, although Stephen might have in...

...Yeats's "He Remembers Forgotten Beauty," a poem in The Wind Among the Reeds (1899): Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap...loveliness which has not yet come into the world." When, after the death of Synge, Joyce hoped to establish a literary position in Ireland and returned...