...steps I wander down Into the clouds of the Adantic even; For grief that I depart they weep and frown: What look is more delightful than the smile With which I soothe them from the western isle? 30 I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine; All harmony of instrument...

...soul' (PL v, 171). Shelley, perhaps with Milton only in mind, raises the eye image to a higher level: 'the eye with which the universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine' (Hymn of Apollo, 31). Far more important than such curiosities, however, is the general character of...

...illumination. He is the giver and interpreter of the law. In Shelley's "Hymn to Apollo," the god announces: I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine. Apollo leads to an awareness of divinity, and calls all to "honor the gods." Christine Downing strikes...

..."phallic" sublime. The pronoun / is used ten times, most devastatingly in the opening of the last stanza: "I am the eye with which the Universe / Beholds itself, and knows it is divine" (31-32). In "Song of Pan" Shelley further subverts Ovid's account by tilting the balance...

...Imagine the brain's organic universe as the observer sees it from the right hemisphere's vantage point: I am the eye with which the universe Beholds itself...itself divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicines are mine . . . — From "Hymn to Apollo," Percy Bysshe Shelley On Apollo's...

...of Terror passed, but the Age of Reason was over. From Rousseau to Blake: The Revolt against Reason I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine. —Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hymn to Apollo" When he was at school at Eton, Shelley spent much of his...

...literature 'Phoebus' often refers to the sun.) He describes himself in Shelley's 'Hymn of Apollo': I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself,...itself divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine are mine, All light of art or nature . . . He is depicted as a beardless young...

...lyre and my curved bow; I will declare to men the inflexible will of Zeus. — Apollo, Homeric Hymns I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine. — Shelley, Hymn of Apollo Apollonian oracular pronouncements dominated the religious scene of the...

...philosophy can use in the person of Apollo those words of the hymn which Shelley puts into his mouth : — I am the eye with which the universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine. '• And Religion — even, and especially, that very religion by which the representation of divine...

...Sidgwick the Apostle I still think the hest motto tor a true Metaphysic are those two lines of Shelley: I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine. Sidgwick to Roden Noel (M t5O It is not too much to say that Camhridge University destroyed the young...