Catherine E. Paul - Collected Works of WB Yates Vol.XIII A Vision

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W.B. YATES

George Bornstein, George Mills Harper, and Richard J. Finneran, General Editors

V OLUME I T HE P OEMS

ed. Richard J. Finneran

V OLUME II T HE P LAYS

ed. David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark

V OLUME III A UTOBIOGRAPHIES

ed. William H. ODonnell and Douglas N. Archibald

V OLUME IV E ARLY E SSAYS

ed. Richard J. Finneran and George Bornstein

V OLUME V L ATER E SSAYS

ed. William H. ODonnell with Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux

V OLUME VI P REFACES AND I NTRODUCTIONS

ed. William H. ODonnell

V OLUME VII L ETTERS TO THE N EW I SLAND

ed. George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer

V OLUME VIII T HE I RISH D RAMATIC M OVEMENT

ed. Mary FitzGerald and Richard J. Finneran

V OLUME IX E ARLY A RTICLES AND R EVIEWS

ed. John P. Frayne and Madeleine Marchaterre

V OLUME X L ATER A RTICLES AND R EVIEWS

ed. Colton Johnson

V OLUME XI M YTHOLOGIES

ed. Jonathan Allison

V OLUME XII J OHN S HERMAN AND D HOYA

ed. Richard J. Finneran

V OLUME XIII A V ISION (1925)

ed. Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper

V OLUME XIV A V ISION (1937)

ed. Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine E. Paul

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A Vision

In memory of
George Mills Harper
and
Richard J. Finneran

This edition, like all scholarly work on W. B. and George Yeats, would not be possible without the generosity of the Yeats family, especially the late Senator Michael B. Yeats and the late Anne Yeats. For many years, they have given of their familys resources as well as their own time and energy to provide unparalleled assistance to scholars. In particular, their gift of W. B. and George Yeatss library and occult papers to the National Library of Ireland has made possible new levels of scholarly investigation of A Vision. We are grateful to Michael B. and Grinne Yeats for their great and ongoing kindness.

The editors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Walter Kelly Hood and Connie Hood, former designated editors of AVA and AVB in this series, who shared with us the results of many years of labor as they passed the project on to us. We are grateful to Jonathan Allison, Alan Baragona, George Bornstein, Terence Brown, Wayne K. Chapman, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Michael de Nie, Stephen B. Dobranski, the late Richard J. Finneran, R. F. Foster, Christine Gallant, Warwick Gould, Eloise Grathwohl, Mary Jane Harper, James Hirsh, Nancy Kojima, Scott Lightsey, George Maalouf, Elizabeth Muller, Claire Nally, William H. ODonnell, Ann Saddlemyer, Ronald Schuchard, James Shimkus, Malinda Snow, Maria Thanassa, Deirdre Toomey, Michael Vickers, and the Yeats Society of Sligo. Thanks are due to Rebecca Drummond at the Georgia State University Library; Dr. Stephen Ennis at Woodruff Special Collections, Emory University; Peter Kenny, Tom Desmond, Ciara McDonnell, and Nicola Ralston at the National Library of Ireland; Charles McNamara at the Walter Royal Davis Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kristen Nyitray and F. Jason Torres at the William Butler Yeats Microfilmed Manuscripts Collection, Special Collections Department, Frank Melville, Jr., Memorial Library at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and staff at the British Library and the Robert Muldrow Cooper Library at Clemson University. Emily Benthall Weathers, Charis Chapman, and Stefanie Peters, research assistants to Professor Paul, gave invaluable assistance. Richard W. Stoops provided unparalleled technical support. We thank the Department of English and College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson University and the Department of English at Georgia State University for support of this project. Samantha Martin, our editor at Scribner, has been of immense help, and we are more than grateful for her management and expertise.

We wish especially to acknowledge the work of George Mills Harper. In addition to invaluable published work and personal assistance, he left extensive files that have helped us immeasurably in understanding WBYs methods of composition and the ordering of many manuscripts and typescripts, not to mention drawing our attention to significant aspects of the genesis of AVA and helping with transcriptions of WBYs nearly illegible handwriting. We have also drawn on notes he made to himself in his copy of CVA after its publication, as he continued his work on the Yeatses occultiana. This edition is deeply indebted to Harpers immense knowledge and scholarly precision.