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]
Yeats published a second edition with alterations in 1937.[3]
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.ISBN978-0-684-80733-1
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.ISBN978-0-684-80734-8
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.ISBN978-1-942954-62-0
Mann, Neil, Matthew Gibson, Claire Nally,Yeats's "A Vision": Explications and Contexts. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2012.ISBN978-0-9835339-2-4
