A Vision

1925 book by Yeats

A Vision Author| William Butler Yeats

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Original title| A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka
Language| English
Subject| Astrology
Published| 1925
Publisher| T. Werner Laurie
Publication place| England
Pages| 256
OCLC| 3596904

A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka, privately published in 1925, is a book-length study of various philosophical, historical, astrological, and poetic topics by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Yeats wrote this work while experimenting with automatic writing alongside his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees. It serves as a meditation on the relationships between imagination, history, and the occult. A Vision has been compared to Eureka: A Prose Poem, the final major work of Edgar Allan Poe.[1][2]

Yeats published a second edition with alterations in 1937.[3]

## References

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1. ^ Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992. p. 214. ISBN 0-8154-1038-7
2. ^ Hoffman, Daniel. Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe. New York: Avon Books, 1972. p. 292. ISBN 0-380-41459-7
3. ^ Croft, Barbara L., "Stylistic Arrangements": A Study of William Butler Yeats's A Vision, Bucknell University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8387-5087-7

## Bibliography

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* Yeats, W. B., A Vision: The Original 1925 Version, ed. Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII. New York: Scribner, 2008. ISBN 978-0-684-80733-1
* Yeats, W. B., A Vision: The Revised 1937 Version, ed. Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIV. New York: Scribner, 2015. ISBN 978-0-684-80734-8
* Makransky, Bob, The Great Wheel - a commentary on W.B. Yeats' "A Vision". Dear Brutus Press, 2017.
* Mann, Neil, A Reader's Guide to Yeats's "A Vision". Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-942954-62-0
* Mann, Neil, Matthew Gibson, Claire Nally, Yeats's "A Vision": Explications and Contexts. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-9835339-2-4
* Raine, Kathleen, From Blake to "A Vision". Dublin : Dolmen Press, 1979. ISBN 0-85105-339-4
* Raine, Kathleen, Yeats the initiate : essays on certain themes in the work of W.B. Yeats, Mountrath, Ireland : Dolmen Press ; London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1986. ISBN 0-85105-398-X. Cf. Chapter VI, "From Blake to A Vision", pp. 106–176.

## External links

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* Neil Mann, The System of W. B. Yeats’s A Vision

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W. B. Yeats

Poetry|

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* The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)
* The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892)
* In the Seven Woods (1903)
* Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916)
* The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
* Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
* The Tower (1928)
* The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

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Poems|

* "Adam's Curse"
* "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
* "Blood and the Moon"
* "The Circus Animals' Desertion"
* "Down by the Salley Gardens"
* "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety"
* "Easter, 1916"
* "Ego Dominus Tuus"
* "The Fiddler of Dooney"
* "The Gift of Harun Al-Raschid"
* "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz"
* "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
* "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
* "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen"
* "On being asked for a War Poem"
* "Politics"
* "A Prayer for My Daughter"
* "Remorse for Intemperate Speech"
* "The Rose of Battle"
* "The Rose-Tree"
* "Sailing to Byzantium"
* "The Scholars"
* "The Second Coming"
* "September 1913"
* "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"
* "Song of the Old Mother"
* "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
* "The Stolen Child"
* "Swift's Epitaph"
* "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time"
* "The Tower"
* "Under Ben Bulben"
* "The Wanderings of Oisin"
* "The Wild Swans at Coole"

Plays|

* Mosada (1886)
* The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
* Diarmuid and Grania (1901)
* Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
* On Baile's Strand (1903)
* The Countess Cathleen (1911)
* At the Hawk's Well (1916)
* The Resurrection (1927)
* Purgatory (1938)

Other works|

* The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical (1893; co-author)
* A Vision (1925)
* The Bounty of Sweden (1925)
* "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows"
* Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor)

People|

* Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife)
* Anne Yeats (daughter)
* Michael Yeats (son)
* John Butler Yeats (father)
* Susan Pollexfen (mother)
* Jack Butler Yeats (brother)
* Elizabeth Yeats (sister)
* Lily Yeats (sister)
* Maud Gonne (muse)

Related|

* W. B. Yeats bibliography
* Rhymers' Club
* Dun Emer Press
* Cuala Press
* An Appointment with Mr Yeats
* "Troy"
* Thoor Ballylee
* Samhain magazine
* The Speckled Bird

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