The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918–29 March 1920

611 Pages·1992·34.146 MB·English

by  Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling, Sandra L. Sprayberry (eds.)

YEATS'S VISION PAPERS
Volume 2
YEATS'S VISION PAPERS
General Editor: George Mills Harper, R. O. Lawton Distinguished
Professor at Florida State University, and General Editor (with Riehard J.
Finneran) of The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats
Mary Jane Harper, Editorial Assistant
Volume 1
The Automatie Seript: 5 November 1917-18 June 1918
Edited by Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry
Volume 2
The Automatie Seript: 25 June 1918-29 March 1920
Edited by Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry
Volume 3
Sleep and Dream Notebooks,
Vision Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File
Edited by Robert Anthony Martinieh and Margaret Mills Harper
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Yeats's Vision Papers
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George Mills Harper
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Volume 2
The Automatie Seript: 25 June 1918-
29 March 1920
Edited by
Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling and
Sandra L. Sprayberry
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Yeats's Vision papers.
Vol. 2, The Automatie script, 25 June 1918-29 March 1920.
1. Literature. Theories
I. Title 11. Adams, Steve L. 111. Frieling, Barbara J.
1111. Sprayberry, Sandra L.
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ISBN 978-1-349-10920-3 ISBN 978-1-349-10918-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-10918-0
3-volume set ISBN 978-0-333-54211-8
Contents
Frontispiece: AS 5 November 1917
List of Illustrations vi
List of Abbreviations and Signs vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgements
Xlll
Eight 25 June to 23 September 1918 1
Nine 24 September to 17 November 1918 66
Ten 11 December 1918 to 16 February 1919 132
Eleven 20 March to 6 May 1919 200
Twelve 21 May to 23 September 1919 284
Thirteen 12 October 1919 to 29 March 1920 442
Notes 541
Bibliography 586
Index 588
v
List of Illustrations
AS 5 Nov 17 frontispiece
9 AS 24 Sept 18 67
10 AS 7 Jan 19 163
11 AS 9 Feb 19 196
12 AS 29 Mar 19 223
13 AS 5 Aug 19 359
14 AS 13 Sept 19 421
15 AS 10 Nov 19 478
16 AS 6 Dec 19 502
17 AS 22 Dec 19 . 517
18 AS 29 Mar 20 539
vi
List of Abbreviations and
Signs
Books, Notebooks, MSS, and Organizations
Au Yeats, Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1955).
CL I The Colleeted Letters of W. B. Yeats, 1865-1895, vol. I, ed.
John Kelly and Eric Domville (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1986).
CVA A Critieal Edition of Yeats's "A Vision" (1925), ed. George
Mills Harper and Walter Kelly Hood (London: Macmillan,
1978).
DCYL Edward O'Shea, A Descriptive Catalog ofW. B. Yeats's Library,
(New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985).
DMR "The Discoveries of Michael Robartes".
EI Yeats, Essays and Introductions (London: Macmillan, 1961).
EPS Nandor Fodor, An Encyclopaedia of Psyehieal Scienee
(Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1974).
Ex Yeats, Explorations, seI. Mrs W. B. Yeats (London:
Macmillan, 1962; New York: Macmillan, 1963).
GD The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
KT H. P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy (London: Theosophical
Publishing House, n.d.). First published 1889.
L The Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. Allan Wade (London: Rupert
Hart-Davis, 1954; New York: Macmillan, 1955).
LWBY Letters to W. B. Yeats, ed. Richard J. Finneran, George Mills
Harper and William M. Murphy (London: Macmillan;
New York: Columbia University Press, 1977).
Mem Memoirs, ed. Denis Donoghue (London: Macmillan, 1972,
New York: Macmillan, 1973).
MG NB Unpublished notebook containing many entries about
Maud Gonne and numerous records of seances and other
spiritualistic experiments.
MM Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks (New York:
W. W. Norton, 1978).
Myth Yeats, Mythologies (London and New York: Macmillan,
1959).
MYV George Mills Harper, The Making of Yeats's "A Vision": A
Study of the Automatie Script, 2 vols (London: Macmillan,
1987).
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viii List of Abbreviations and Signs
NB Nine Notebooks in Sleep and Dream Notebooks.
NCP A. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems ofW. B.
Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1984).
OJE Yeats, The Only Jealousy of Emer (1919).
P W. B. Yeats: The Poems, ed. R. J. Finneran (New York and
London: Macmillan, 1983, rev. 1989).
PASL Yeats, Per Amica Silentia Lunae (London and New York:
Macmillan, 1918).
SDNB Sleep and Dream Notebooks.
SPR Society for Psychical Research.
UP 1 Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, vol. I, ed. John P. Frayne
(London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University
Press, 1970).
UP2 Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, vol. 2, ed. John P. Frayne
and Colton Johnson (London: Macmillan, 1975; New
York: Columbia University Press, 1976).
VA Yeats, AVision (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1925).
VB Yeats, AVision (London: Macmillan, 1962).
VBWI Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland Collected and Arranged
by Lady Gregory: with Two Essays and Notes by W. B. Yeats
(Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1970).
VNB1 Vision Notebook 1.
VNB2 Vision Notebook 2.
VP The Variorum Edition of the Poems ofW. B. Yeats, ed. Peter Allt
and Russell K. Alspach (New York: Macmillan, 1957).
VPI The Variorum Edition of the Plays ofW. B. Yeats, ed. Russell K.
Alspach (London and New York: Macmillan, 1966).
YGD George Mills Harper, Yeats's Golden Dawn (London:
Macmillan, 1974).
YH - -, W. B. Yeats and W. T. Horton: The Record of an Occult
Friendship (London: Macmillan, 1980).
YO Yeats and the Occult, ed. George Mills Harper (Toronto:
Macmillan 1975).
Selected Terms Abbreviated in the Automatie Writing
A Answer
AF Automatie Faculty
AM Anima Mundi
AS Automatie Script
BW Backward Writing
CF Card File