''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
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
. Yeats wrote this work while experimenting with
automatic writing
Automatic writing, also called psychography, is a claimed psychic ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing. Practitioners engage in automatic writing by holding a writing instrument and allowing alleged spir ...
with his wife
. 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
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wid ...
.
Yeats published a second edition with alterations in 1937.
References
Bibliography
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Mann, Neil, Matthew Gibson, Claire Nally, ''Yeats's "A Vision": Explications and Contexts''. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2012.
*
Raine, Kathleen, ''From Blake to "A Vision"''. Dublin : Dolmen Press, 1979.
* 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. . Cf. Chapter VI, ''From Blake to A Vision", pp. 106–176.
External links
*Neil Mann
The System of W. B. Yeats’s ''A Vision''
1925 non-fiction books
Works by W. B. Yeats
Astrological texts
Channelled texts
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