Research Catalog

Title

A vision : the revised 1937 edition / W.B. Yeats ; edited by Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine E. Paul.

Author

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

Publication

New York : Scribner, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harper, Margaret Mills, 1957-
• Paul, Catherine E., 1971-

Description

li, 503 pages : illustrations, portrait; 23 cm

Summary

• "A new annotated edition of Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical--this volume reveals the poet's greatest thoughts on the occult. First published in 1925, and then substantially revised by the author in 1937, A Vision is a unique work of literary modernism, and revelatory guide to Yeats's own poetry and thinking. Indispensable to an understanding of the poet's late work, and entrancing on its own merit, the book presents the "system" of philosophy, psychology, history, and the life of the soul that Yeats and his wife, George, received and created by means of mediumistic experiments from 1917 through the early 1920s. Yeats obsessively revised the original book that he wrote in 1925, and the 1937 version is the definitive version of what Yeats wanted to say. Now, presented in a scholarly edition for the first time by Yeats scholars Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, the 1937 version of A Vision is an important, essential literary resource and a must-have for all serious readers of Yeats"--
• "This new annotated edition of Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy, A Vision (1937), is a revised explanation of the poet's greatest occult work"--

Series Statement

• The collected works of W.B. Yeats ; volume 14
• Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Works. 1989 ; v. 14.

Uniform Title

Collected works of W.B. Yeats ; v. 14.

Subjects

• Yeats, W. B (William Butler), 1865-1939
• Ireland
• Mysticism
• Yeats, W. B (William Butler), 1865-1939 > Knowledge > Occultism
• Occultism > Ireland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A packet for Ezra Pound -- Stories of Michael Robartes and his friends: an extract from a record made by his pupils -- The phases of the moon -- Book I: the great wheel -- Book II: the completed symbol -- Book III: the soul in judgment -- Book IV: the great year of the ancients -- Book V: dove or swan -- All souls' night: an epilogue -- Appendix I: proofs, versions, emendations, and hyphenations -- Appendix II: earlier versions.

Call Number

JFD 15-3779

ISBN

• 9780684807348 (hardback)
• 0684807343 (hardback)
• 9781476792118 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014017856

OCLC

885026121

Author

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939, author.

Title

A vision : the revised 1937 edition / W.B. Yeats ; edited by Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine E. Paul.

Publisher

New York : Scribner, 2015.

Edition

Scribner hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The collected works of W.B. Yeats ; volume 14

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Works. 1989 ; v. 14.

Collected works of W.B. Yeats ; v. 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Harper, Margaret Mills, 1957- editor.

Paul, Catherine E., 1971- editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-3779