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by William Butler Yeats; Catherine E. Paul (Editor); Margaret Mills Harper (Editor)

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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 Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine E. Paul, the 1937 version of A Vision is an important, essential literary resource and a must-have for all serious readers of Yeats.

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Title A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIV
Author William Butler Yeats; Catherine E. Paul (Editor); Margaret Mills Harper (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition Revised
Pages 560
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Scribner Book Company
Date 2015-05
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780684807348 / 0684807343
Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.6 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 4.06 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: British
Library of Congress subjects Mysticism, Yeats, W. B - Knowledge - Occultism
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014017856
Dewey Decimal Code 828.807

About the author

William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland's greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. Catherine E. Paul is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. She is the author of Poetry in the Museums of Modernism: Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein and of numerous articles relating to modernist studies. Margaret Mills Harper, a coeditor of Yeat's "Vision" Papers (volumes 3 and 4), is the author of Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W.B. Yeats, The Aristocracy of Art in Joyce and Wolfe, and numerous articles on Yeats, Irish literature, and literary modernism. She is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Georgia State University.