{{Short description|1925 book by Yeats}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox book | italic title = <!--(see above)--> | name = A Vision | image = File:A_Vision_book_cover.png | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = Title page for ''A Vision'' (1938 edition) | author = [[William Butler Yeats]] | audio_read_by = | title_orig = A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = England | language = English | series = | release_number = | subject = [[Astrology]] | genre = | set_in = | publisher = [[T. Werner Laurie]] | publisher2 = | pub_date = | english_pub_date = | published = 1925 | media_type = | pages = 256 | awards = | isbn = | isbn_note = | oclc = 3596904 | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = }}

'''''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]]. Yeats wrote this work while experimenting with [[automatic writing]] alongside his wife [[Georgie Hyde-Lees]]. 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]].<ref>Meyers, Jeffrey. ''Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy''. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992. p. 214. {{ISBN|0-8154-1038-7}}</ref><ref>[[Daniel Hoffman|Hoffman, Daniel]]. ''Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe''. New York: Avon Books, 1972. p. 292. {{ISBN|0-380-41459-7}}</ref>

Yeats published a second edition with alterations in 1937.<ref>Croft, Barbara L., ''"Stylistic Arrangements": A Study of William Butler Yeats's ''A Vision, Bucknell University Press, 1987. {{ISBN|0-8387-5087-7}}</ref>

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== 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. {{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}} * [[Kathleen Raine|Raine, Kathleen]], ''From Blake to "A Vision"''. Dublin : Dolmen Press, 1979. {{ISBN|0-85105-339-4}} * Raine, Kathleen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zJ5jDUwgJFQC ''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.&nbsp;106–176.

==External links== *Neil Mann, [http://www.yeatsvision.com/ The System of W. B. Yeats’s ''A Vision'']

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