A Vision

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. Hardcover. Navy cloth/boards. Silver lettering. Blue dj with white lettering. 305 pp. with bw portrait frontis, 2 bw illus., and several bw diagrams. Good/Good-. Clean, tight text, but with light foxing to end papers and light shelf wear. DJ has general shelf wear and some chipping to edges, with two large but tape-repaired tears. Item #156099

A reissue, with Yeats's final revisions. Originally titled A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka and privately published in 1925, A Vision 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 with his wife George. It serves as a meditation on the relationships among imagination, history, and the occult.

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