{"product_id":"the-collected-works-of-wb-yeats-volume-xiii-a-vision-the-original-1925-version","title":"The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Collected Works of W. B. Yeats  Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of literary modernism  A Vision is Yeatss greatest occult work.  Edited by Yeats scholars Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper  the volume presents the \"system\" of philosophy  psychology  history  and the life of the soul that Yeats and his wife George (ne Hyde Lees) received and created by means of mediumistic experiments from 1917 through the early 1920s. Yeats obsessively revised the book  and the revised 1937 version is much more widely available than its predecessor. The original 1925 version of A Vision  poetic  unpolished  masked in fiction  and close to the excitement of the automatic writing that the Yeatses believed to be its supernatural origin  is presented here in a scholarly edition for the first time.  The text  minimally corrected to retain the sense of the original  is extensively annotated  with particular attention paid to the relationship between the published book and its complex genetic materials. Indispensable to an understanding of the poets late work and entrancing on its own merit  A Vision aims to be  all at once  a work of theoretical history  an esoteric philosophy  an aesthetic symbology  a psychological schema  and a sacred book. It is as difficult as it is essential reading for any student of Yeats.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974336540725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0684807335","price":315.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780684807331.jpg?v=1770654558","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-collected-works-of-wb-yeats-volume-xiii-a-vision-the-original-1925-version","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}