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 poetWilliam Butler Yeats. Yeats wrote this work while experimenting withautomatic writing alongside his wifeGeorgie Hyde-Lees. It serves as a meditation on the relationships between imagination, history, and the occult.A Vision has been compared toEureka: A Prose Poem, the final major work ofEdgar Allan Poe.[1][2]
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 |
Yeats published a second edition with alterations in 1937.[3]
References
edit- ^Meyers, Jeffrey.Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992. p. 214.ISBN 0-8154-1038-7
- ^Hoffman, Daniel.Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe. New York: Avon Books, 1972. p. 292.ISBN 0-380-41459-7
- ^Croft, Barbara L.,"Stylistic Arrangements": A Study of William Butler Yeats'sA Vision, Bucknell University Press, 1987.ISBN 0-8387-5087-7
Bibliography
edit- 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
edit- Neil Mann,The System of W. B. Yeats’sA Vision
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