- Includes over a dozen original illustrations
- Includes critical essays on Yeats, his life and his ideas, placing his work within the context of his time, as well as an up-to-date bibliography of works on Yeats
W.B. Yeats called A Vision “my book of books.” He saw it as the definitive statement of his mystical philosophy, which was developed in collaboration with his wife over the course of a dramatic series of “automatic writing” sessions, in which she became possessed by the spirits of various figures from history. The philosophy articulated in A Vision led to a remarkable transformation in Yeats’s poetry, and inspired many of the late poems on which his reputation above all rests. A Vision is a profound work of genius that will provoke and inspire, and it is crucial to understanding the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets.
The text presented here is the original 1925 edition, painstakingly edited by Yeats himself from thousands of pages of manuscripts. This Kindle edition has been professionally edited and corrected to meet the highest scholarly standards, and it contains an active table of contents.
- Includes critical essays on Yeats, his life and his ideas, placing his work within the context of his time, as well as an up-to-date bibliography of works on Yeats
W.B. Yeats called A Vision “my book of books.” He saw it as the definitive statement of his mystical philosophy, which was developed in collaboration with his wife over the course of a dramatic series of “automatic writing” sessions, in which she became possessed by the spirits of various figures from history. The philosophy articulated in A Vision led to a remarkable transformation in Yeats’s poetry, and inspired many of the late poems on which his reputation above all rests. A Vision is a profound work of genius that will provoke and inspire, and it is crucial to understanding the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets.
The text presented here is the original 1925 edition, painstakingly edited by Yeats himself from thousands of pages of manuscripts. This Kindle edition has been professionally edited and corrected to meet the highest scholarly standards, and it contains an active table of contents.
