# A Vision

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1925 book by Yeats

A Vision Title page for A Vision (1938 edition) Author William Butler Yeats Original title A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka Language English Subject Astrology Published 1925 Publisher T. Werner Laurie Publication place England Pages 256 OCLC 3596904

***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](/source/William_Butler_Yeats). Yeats wrote this work while experimenting with [automatic writing](/source/Automatic_writing) alongside his wife [Georgie Hyde-Lees](/source/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](/source/Eureka%3A_A_Prose_Poem)*, the final major work of [Edgar Allan Poe](/source/Edgar_Allan_Poe).[1][2]

Yeats published a second edition with alterations in 1937.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Meyers, Jeffrey. *Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy*. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992. p. 214. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-8154-1038-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8154-1038-7)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Hoffman, Daniel](/source/Daniel_Hoffman). *Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe*. New York: Avon Books, 1972. p. 292. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-380-41459-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-380-41459-7)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Croft, Barbara L., *"Stylistic Arrangements": A Study of William Butler Yeats's*A Vision, Bucknell University Press, 1987. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-8387-5087-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8387-5087-7)

## 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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-684-80733-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-684-80734-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-942954-62-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-9835339-2-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9835339-2-4)

- [Raine, Kathleen](/source/Kathleen_Raine), *From Blake to "A Vision"*. Dublin : Dolmen Press, 1979. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-85105-339-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85105-339-4)

- Raine, Kathleen, [*Yeats the initiate : essays on certain themes in the work of W.B. Yeats*](https://books.google.com/books?id=zJ5jDUwgJFQC), Mountrath, Ireland : Dolmen Press; London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1986. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-85105-398-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85105-398-X). Cf. Chapter VI, "From Blake to A Vision", pp. 106–176.

## External links

- Neil Mann, [The System of W. B. Yeats’s *A Vision*](http://www.yeatsvision.com/)

v t e W. B. Yeats Poetry Volumes The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889) The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) In the Seven Woods (1903) Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916) The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) The Tower (1928) The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) Poems "Adam's Curse" "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" "Blood and the Moon" "The Circus Animals' Desertion" "Down by the Salley Gardens" "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" "Easter, 1916" "Ego Dominus Tuus" "The Fiddler of Dooney" "The Gift of Harun Al-Raschid" "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz" "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" "On being asked for a War Poem" "Politics" "A Prayer for My Daughter" "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" "The Rose of Battle" "The Rose-Tree" "Sailing to Byzantium" "The Scholars" "The Second Coming" "September 1913" "The Song of the Happy Shepherd" "Song of the Old Mother" "The Song of Wandering Aengus" "The Stolen Child" "Swift's Epitaph" "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" "The Tower" "Under Ben Bulben" "The Wanderings of Oisin" "The Wild Swans at Coole" Plays Mosada (1886) The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) Diarmuid and Grania (1901) Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) On Baile's Strand (1903) The Countess Cathleen (1911) At the Hawk's Well (1916) The Resurrection (1927) Purgatory (1938) Other works The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical (1893; co-author) A Vision (1925) The Bounty of Sweden (1925) "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows" Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor) The Ten Principal Upanishads (1938, co-translator) People Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife) Anne Yeats (daughter) Michael Yeats (son) John Butler Yeats (father) Susan Pollexfen (mother) Jack Butler Yeats (brother) Elizabeth Yeats (sister) Lily Yeats (sister) Maud Gonne (muse) Related W. B. Yeats bibliography Rhymers' Club Dun Emer Press Cuala Press An Appointment with Mr Yeats Owen Red Hanrahan "Troy" Thoor Ballylee Samhain magazine The Speckled Bird

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