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W. B A $2.95 • • YEATS VISION .J " ••• the most ambitious attempt made by any poet of our time to set up a myth."-Cleanth Brooks. With the Author's Final Revisions W. B. YEATS, 1907 From an etching by Augustus John, R. A. A Vision W. B. YEATS A REISSUE WITH THE AUTHOR'S FINAL REVISIONS COLLIER BOOKS A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. NEW YORK Copyright 1937 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. Copyright 1938 by William Butler Yeats Copyright renewed 1965 by Bertha Georgie Yeats and Anne Butler Yeats All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or trans mitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or hy any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 38-6655 First Collier Books Edition 1966 A Reissue. With the author's final revisions, 1956. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. 866 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 Eighth Printing 1975 Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS PAGE A PACKET FOR EZRA POUND I RAPALLO • 3 INTRODUCTION TO "A VISION" . 8 To EZRA POUND . 26 STORIES OF MICHAEL ROBARTES AND HIS FRIENDS: AN EXTRACT FROM A RECORD MADE BY HIS PUPILS 31 THE PHASES OF THE MOON 57 BOOK I: THE GREAT WHEEL PART I: THE PRINCIPAL SYMBOL 67 PART II: EXAMINATION OF THE WHEEL 80 PART III: THE TWENTY-EIGHT INCARNATIONS 105 BOOK II: THE COMPLETED SYMBOL 187 BOOK III: THE SOUL IN JUDGMENT 219 BOOK IV: THE GREAT YEAR OF THE ANCIENTS 243 BOOK V: DOVE OR SWAN 267 ALL SOULS' NIGHT: AN EPILOGUE. 303 ILLUSTRATIONS W. B. YEATS, 1907 . Frontispiece rAGa PORTRAIT OF GIRALDUS 39 THE GREAT WHEEL 66 THE HISTORICAL CONES A PACKET FOR EZRA POUND
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