November 5, 2008

Yeats


[I]f his straining after effect is often irritating it can also produce phrases ("the chill, footless years," "the mackerel-crowded seas") which suddenly overwhelm one like a girl's face seen across a room.

-- Orwell, "Review of The Development of William Butler Yeats by V.K. Narayana Menon" (in Collected Essays, Everyman ed.).