Works on Yeats and A Vision
Works by Yeats
Relevant Background Works
Other Works
Abbreviations
(AV B 23)
d’Àneu (detail). Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.
Works on Yeats and A Vision | |
Works by Yeats | |
Relevant Background Works | |
Other Works | |
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| ‘One remembers the six wings of Daniel’s angels, the Pythagorean numbers . . . .’ (AV B 23) | Eleventh-century Romanesque fresco from the apse
of Santa Maria d’Àneu (detail). Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. |
Works on Yeats and A Vision | ||
| The works below are all relevant to the study of Yeats's thought and A Vision, although specific consideration of A Vision itself may not always be lengthy. They are grouped by author, so articles and books are mixed. | ||
| Adams, Hazard | Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision, Cornell Studies in English, Vol. 40 (1955; New York NY: Russell & Russell, 1968) | |
| “Yeatsian Art and Mathematic Form”, Centennial Review 4 (Winter 1960), 70-88. | ||
| “Symbolism and Yeats’s A Vision”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 22:4 (Summer 1964), 425-36. | ||
| “Some Yeatsian Versions of Comedy”, in ed. Jeffares and Cross, In Excited Reverie, reprinted in Antithetical Essays in Literary Criticism and Liberal Education (Tallahassee FL: Florida State University Press, 1990), 60-75. | ||
| Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic (Tallahassee FL: Florida State University Press, 1983) | ||
| The Book of Yeats’s Poems (Tallahassee FL: Florida State University Press, 1990) | ||
| The Book of Yeats’s Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1995) [BYV] | ||
| Adams, Steve L. & Harper, G. M. | “The Manuscript of ‘Leo Africanus’”, YA 1 (1982) 3-47. | |
| Adams, Steve L. | see Yeats’s Vision Papers Vols. 1 & 2 | |
| Albright, Daniel | The Myth against Myth: A Study of Yeats’s Imagination in Old Age (London: Oxford University Press, 1972) | |
| Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) | ||
| Allen, James Lovic | “From Puzzle to Paradox: New Light on Yeats’s Late Career”, Sewanee Review 82:1 (Winter 1974), 81-92. | |
| Yeats’s Epitaph: A Key to Symbolic Unity in His Life and Work (Washington D.C.: UP of America, 1982) | ||
| “‘The Red and the Black’: Understanding ‘The Historical Cones’” YA 3 (1985) 209-212. | ||
| Allt, Peter | “W. B. Yeats”, Theology 42: 428 (Feb 1941) | |
| “Yeats, Religion and History”, Sewanee Review 60:4 (Oct-Dec 1952) | ||
| ed., The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, see Yeats. | ||
| Alspach, Russell K. | ed., The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, see Yeats. | |
| ed., The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats, see Yeats. | ||
| Archibald, Douglas N. | ed., Autobiographies (Collected Works Vol. III), see Yeats | |
| Arkins, Brian | “Yeats: Platonist, Gnostic, or What”, YAACTS 7, 3-16. | |
| “Towards an Astrological Reading of Yeats”, Yeats Eliot Review 11:3 (1992) 64-66. | ||
| Bachchan, H. R. | W. B. Yeats and Occultism: A Study of his Works in relation to Indian Lore, the Cabbala, Swedenborg, Boehme and Theosophy (Delhi, Motilal Barnarsidass, 1965) | |
| Bjersby, Birgit | The Interpretation of the Cuchulain Legend in the Works of W. B. Yeats (Upsala: Lundequist, 1950) | |
| Bloom, Harold | Yeats (Oxford & New York NY: Oxford University Press, 1970) | |
| Bornstein, George | ed., Letters to the New Island (Collected Works Vol. VII), see Yeats | |
| Bushrui, Suheil B. | ‘Yeats’s Arabic Interests’, in In Excited Reverie | |
| Chapman, Wayne K. | “Authors in Eternity: Some Sources of Yeats’s Creative Mysticism”, YA 15, 288-312. | |
| Clark, David R. | W. B. Yeats and the Theatre of Desolate Reality (Dublin: Dolmen, 1965) | |
| ed. Irish Renaissance | ||
| Clark, David R. & Rosalind, E. | eds., The Plays (Collected Works Vol. II), see Yeats | |
| Croft, Barbara | “Stylistic Arrangements”: A Study of William Butler Yeats’s A Vision (London: Associated University Presses, 1987) [SA] | |
| Cross, K. G. W. | ed., In Excited Reverie, see Jeffares. | |
| DeForrest, Matthew M. | "Michael Robartes and His Friends", The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 18:2 (December 1992), 48-57. | |
| "The Otherworldly Debts of W. B. Yeats' A Vision", The Princess Grace Irish Library 12: That Other World (Vol. 2) (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1998), 319-330. | ||
| Yeats and the Stylistic Arrangements of Experience (San Francisco CA, London and Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1999) | ||
| "Philosophical Differences and Yeat’s Corroborative System in A Vision", The South Carolina Review, 32:1 (Fall 1999), 213-228; [online PDF]. | ||
| Dobra, Susan Martha | “The Rhetoric of Belief: Yeats’s Occult Aesthetic in Per Amica Silentia Lunae”, YAACTS 15 (1997 [1999]), 3-18. | |
| Domville, Eric | ed., Collected Letters Vol. 1, see Yeats | |
| Donoghue, Denis | William Butler Yeats (New York NY: Viking, 1971; also Fontana [Modern Masters], 1971) | |
| ed., Memoirs: Autobiography - First Draft: Journal, see Yeats. | ||
| Donoghue, Denis & J. R. Mulryne | eds., An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats, (London: Edward Arnold Ltd, 1965) | |
| Eliot, T. S., | After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy, (London: Faber & Faber, 1934), the Page-Barbour lectures, University of Virginia, 1933. | |
| Ellmann, Richard | The Identity of Yeats (1954; 2nd ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1964) [IY] | |
| Yeats: The Man and the Masks (2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979) [YM&M] | ||
| “W. B. Yeats’s Second Puberty”, in Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987) | ||
| Engelberg, Edward | The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats’s Aesthetic (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965) | |
| Finneran, Harper & Murphy with Himber | eds., Letters to W. B. Yeats, (London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University Press, 1977) 2 vols. [LTWBY] | |
| Finneran, Richard J. | ed., John Sherman AND Dhoya, see Yeats. | |
| ed., Yeats Annual 1-2 (London: 1982-83) [YA] | ||
| ed., Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies (publishers vary, 1983-), cited by issue number. [YAACTS] | ||
| “On Editing Yeats: The Text of A Vision (1937)”, Texas Studies in Literature and Language 19:1 (Spring 1977), 119-34. | ||
| general ed., Collected Works, see Yeats | ||
| ed., The Poems (Collected Works Vol. I), see Yeats | ||
| ed., The Irish Dramatic Movement (Collected Works Vol. VIII), see Yeats | ||
| ed., John Sherman and Dhoya (Collected Works Vol. XII), see Yeats | ||
| FitzGerald, Mary | ed., The Irish Dramatic Movement (Collected Works Vol. VIII), see Yeats | |
| Flannery, M. C. | Yeats and Magic: The Early Works (Gerrard’s Cross: Colin Smythe, 1977) | |
| Foster, Roy F. | W. B. Yeats: A Life, 2 vols., Volume 1: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) | |
| Volume 2: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) | ||
| Frayne, John P. | ed., Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, Vol 1, (London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University Press, 1970) | |
| Frayne, John P., & Colton Johnson | eds., Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, Vol 2, (London: Macmillan, 1975; New York: Columbia University Press, 1976) | |
| Friedman, Barton R. | “Yeatsian (Meta)physics: The Resurrection and the Irrational”, YAACTS 8, 144-165. | |
| Frieling, Barbara J. | see Yeats’s Vision Papers Vols. 1 & 2 | |
| Frye, Northrop | Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957; 1971) | |
| “The Rising of the Moon” in An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats, eds. Denis Donoghue & J. R. Mulryne (London: Edward Arnold Ltd, 1965), 8-33, reprinted in Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society (Bloomington IN & London: Indiana University Press, 1976), 245-74. | ||
| “The Top of the Tower: A Study of the Imagery of Yeats”, in The Stubborn Structure: Essays of Criticism and Society (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1970), 257-77. | ||
| “Yeats and the Language of Symbolism”, in Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology (New York NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963), 218-37. | ||
| Words With Power (San Diego CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990) | ||
| Gibbon, Monk | The Living Torch, (London: Macmillan, 1937) | |
| Gibson, Matthew | “ ‘What Empty Eyeballs Knew’: Zen Buddhism in ‘The Statues’ and the Principles of A Vision”, YA 11 (1994) 141-56. | |
| Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000) | ||
| “Yeats and Idealism: the Philosophy of Light”, YA 14 (2001), 284-297. | ||
| “Yeats, Kant and Giovanni Gentile: the Single Gyre of Time and Space”, YA 15 (2002), 313-325. | ||
| Good, Maeve | W. B. Yeats and the Creation of a Tragic Universe (London: Macmillan, 1987) | |
| Gorski, William T. | Yeats and Alchemy (Albany: SUNY, 1996) | |
| Gould, Warwick | ed., The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition, see Yeats. | |
| ed., Yeats Annual 3-8, 10-14 (London: Macmillan, 1985-2000; Palgrave, 2001–), cited by issue number. [YA] | ||
| “ ‘What is the explanation of it all?’: Yeats’s ‘little poem about nothing’”, YA 5 (1987) 212-13. | ||
| “A Lesson for the Circumspect: W. B. Yeats’s Two Versions of A Vision and the Arabian Nights”, in Peter L. Caracciolo, ed., The “Arabian Nights” in English Literature: Studies in the Reception of “The Thousand and One Nights” into British Culture (London: Macmillan, 1988), 244-80. | ||
| “Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors”, Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 January 1988, 13. | ||
| “The Crowded Theatre: Yeats and Balzac”, in A. Norman Jeffares, ed., Yeats the European (Gerrard’s Cross: Colin Smythe, 1989), 69-90. | ||
| “Frazer, Yeats and the Reconsecration of Folklore”, in Robert Fraser, ed., Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination (London: Macmillan, 1990), 121-153. | ||
| ed., Collected Letters Vol. 2, see Yeats | ||
| ed., “Clairvoyance: A lecture by V. H. Soror Deo Date”, YA 14, 265-283. | ||
| Gould, Warwick & Marjorie Reeves | Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1987; revised and enlarged: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) | |
| Gould, Warwick & Deirdre Toomey | ed., Mythologies, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) | |
| Graf, Susan | W. B. Yeats – Twentieth-Century Magus: An In-depth Study of Yeats’s Esoteric Practices & Beliefs, Including Excerpts from His Magical Diaries (York Beach ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 2000) | |
| Hall, James & Martin Steinmann | eds., The Permanence of Yeats (1950; NY: Collier Books, 1961) | |
| Harper, George Mills and Walter Kelly Hood | eds., A Critical Edition of Yeats’s A Vision (1925), (London: Macmillan, 1978) [CVA] | |
| Harper, George Mills | general ed., assisted by Mary Jane Harper, Yeats’s Vision Papers [YVP 1, 2, 3 & 4]: | |
| Volume 1: The Automatic Script: 5 November 1917—18 June 1918, with eds. Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry (London: Macmillan & Iowa City IA: University of Iowa Press, 1992) | ||
| Volume 2: The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918—29 March 1920, with eds. Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry (London: Macmillan & Iowa City IA: University of Iowa Press, 1992) | ||
| Volume 3: Sleep and Dream Notebooks, Vision Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File, with eds. Robert Anthony Martinich and Margaret Mills Harper (London: Macmillan & Iowa City IA: University of Iowa Press, 1992) | ||
| Volume 4: “The Discoveries of Michael Robartes”, Version B (“The Great Wheel” and “The Twenty-Eight Embodiments”), with Margaret Mills Harper, and with Richard W. Stoops, Jr. (London: Palgrave, 2001) | ||
| ed., Yeats and the Occult, (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; Niagara Falls, New York: Maclean-Hunter Press, 1975) [YO] | ||
| The Making of Yeats’s “A Vision”: A Study of the Automatic Script, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan; Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987) [MYV] | ||
| Yeats’s Golden Dawn (London: Macmillan, 1974) [YGD] | ||
| general ed., Collected Works, see Yeats | ||
| Harper, George Mills and John S. Kelly | “Preliminary Examination of the Script of E[lizabeth] R[adcliffe]”, YO 130-171. | |
| Harper, Margaret Mills | “The Medium as Creator: George Yeats’s Role in the Automatic Script”, YAACTS 6 (1989), 49-71. | |
| “The Message is the Medium: Identity in the Automatic Script”, YAACTS 9 (1991), 35-54. | ||
| see Yeats’s Vision Papers Vols. 3 & 4 | ||
| “Yeats’s Religion”, YAACTS 13 (1997), 48-71. | ||
| “Celestial Bodies: Sexual Cosmologies in a Collaborative Vision”, YA 15 (2002), 102-119. | ||
| “Nemo: George Yeats and Her Automatic Script”, New Literary History 33 (2002), 291-314. | ||
| Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual And Literary Collaboration of George And W. B. Yeats, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) | ||
| Harris, Daniel | “The ‘Figured Page’: Dramatic Epistle in Browning and Yeats”, YA 1 (1982) 133-194. | |
| Haswell, Janis Tedesco | “The Sexual Dynamic of W. B. Yeats’s A Vision”, YAACTS 12 (1996) 102-118. | |
| Healey III, T. Jeremiah | “ ‘That Which is Unique in Man’: The Lightning Flash in Yeats’s Later Thought”, YA 13 (1998) 253-262. | |
| Heine, Elizabeth | “ ‘W. B. Yeats’ map in his own hand’”, Biography, 1: 3 (1978) 37-50. | |
| “W. B. Yeats: Poet and Astrologer”, Culture and Cosmos: A Journal of the History of Astrology and Cultural Astronomy 1:2 (1997) 60-75. | ||
| “Yeats and Maud Gonne: Marriage and the Astrological Record, 1908-09”, YA 13 (1999) 3-33. | ||
| Heisler, Ron | “Yeats and the Thirteenth Æon”, YA 13 (1999) 241-252. | |
| Helmling, Steven | “Yeats’s Esoteric Comedy”, Hudson Review 30:2 (Summer 1977), 230-46, | |
| revised in | The Esoteric Comedies of Carlyle, Newman and Yeats (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) | |
| Henn, T. R. | The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1950; London: Methuen, 1965) | |
| Last Essays (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1976) | ||
| Herr, Cheryl | “ ‘The Strange Reward of All That Discipline’: Yeats and Foucault”, in Yeats and Postmodernism, ed. Leonard Orr (Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991), 146-66. | |
| Hirschberg, Stuart | At the Top of the Tower: Yeats’s Poetry Explored through A Vision (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitäts Verlag, 1979) | |
| Holdridge, Jefferson | Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2000) | |
| Hone, Joseph | W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939 (London: Macmillan, 1942; rev. 1962) | |
| Hood, Connie Kelly | “A Search for Authority: Prolegomena to a Definitive Critical Edition of W. B. Yeats’s A Vision (1937)”, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1983 (Abstract notice: DAI, 44:4 [Oct 1983], 1082A-83A; reprinted YAACTS 2 [1984], 263 and YA 4 [1986], 312-13) | |
| “The Remaking of A Vision”, YAACTS 1 (1983), 33-67. | ||
| Hood, Walter Kelly | “Michael Robartes: Two Occult Manuscripts”, YO 204-224. | |
| “ ‘Read Fechner,’ the Spirit Said: W. B. Yeats and Gustav Theodor Fechner”, YAACTS 7 (1989 [1990]), 91-98. | ||
| Hough, Graham | The Mystery Religion of W. B. Yeats (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1984) [MRWBY] | |
| Jeffares, A. Norman | W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet, (1949; 3rd edition, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1996) | |
| The Circus Animals: Essays on W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1970) | ||
| ed., W. B. Yeats: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977) | ||
| A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984) [NC] | ||
| Jeffares, A. Norman and K. G. W. Cross, eds. | In Excited Reverie: A Centenary Tribute to William Butler Yeats, 1856-1939 (London: Macmillan, 1965) | |
| Jochum, K. P. S. | “Yeats’s Vision Papers and the Problem of Automatic Writing: A Review Essay”, English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 36:3 (1993), 323-336. | |
| W. B. Yeats: A Classified Bibliography of Criticism (2nd edition, revised and enlarged; Urbana & Chicago IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990) | ||
| Johnson, Colton | ed., Later Articles and Reviews (Collected Works Vol. X), see Yeats | |
| Kelly, John S. | “Preliminary Examination of the Script of E[lizabeth] R[adcliffe]”, see Harper. | |
| general ed., The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, see Yeats. | ||
| A W. B. Yeats Chronology (London: Palgrave, 2003) | ||
| Kinahan, Frank | Yeats, Folklore and Occultism: Contexts of the Early Work and Thought (Boston MA: Unwin Hyman, 1988) | |
| Korkowski, Eugene | “Yeats’ Vision as Philosophic Satura”, Eire 12:3 (Fall 1977), 62-70 | |
| Lenoski, Daniel S. | “W. B. Yeats: God and Imagination”, English Studies in Canada 6:1 (Spring 1980), 84-93. | |
| Levine, Herbert J. | “ ‘But Now I Add Another Thought’: Yeats’s Daimonic Tradition”, Studies in the Literary Imagination 14:1, Special Issue, “W.B.Yeats: The Occult and Philosophical Backgrounds”, (Atlanta: Georgia State University, Spring 1981), 77-84. | |
| Yeats’s Daimonic Renewal (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1983) | ||
| McDowell, Colin | “The ‘Opening of the Tinctures’ in Yeats’s A Vision”, Eire 20:3 (Fall 1985), 71-92. | |
| “To ‘Beat Upon the Wall’: Reading A Vision”, YA 4 (1986) 219-27. | ||
| “ ‘Heraldic Supporters’: Minor Symbolism and the Integrity of A Vision”, YA 10 (1993) 207-217. | ||
| “ ‘The Completed Symbol’: Daimonic Existence and the Great Wheel in A Vision (1937)”, YA 6 (1988) 193-208. | ||
| “The Six Discarnate States of A Vision (1937)”, YAACTS 4 (1986) 87-98. | ||
| Review of Croft’s “Stylistic Arrangements”, YA 7 (1990) 266-68. | ||
| “Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers: First Impressions”, YA 11 (1994) 157-170. | ||
| McNamee, Brendan | “Death and the Anti-Self”, YA 17 (2008) 353-365. | |
| MacNeice, Louis | The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1941; London: Faber & Faber, 1967) | |
| Maddox, Brenda | George’s Ghosts: A New Life of W. B. Yeats (US: Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats) (London: Harper Collins, 1999) | |
| Mann, Neil | “A Vision: Ideas of God and Man”, YA 8 (1990) 157-175. | |
| “‘Images’: Unpublished Tableaux of Opposition”, YA 9 (1992) 313-20. | ||
| ‘George Yeats and Athanasius Kircher’, YA 16 (2006) 163-93. | ||
| Marcus, Phillip L. | “The Authors Were in Eternity—or Oxford: George Yeats, George Harper, and the Making of A Vision”, YAACTS 6 (1989) 233-244. | |
| ed. The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition, see Yeats. | ||
| Martin, Augustine | W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1983; 1990) | |
| Martinich, Robert Anthony | see Yeats’s Vision Papers Vol. 3 | |
| Melchiori, Giorgio | The Whole Mystery of Art: Pattern into Poetry in the Work of W. B. Yeats (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960) | |
| Mikhail, E. H. | ed., W. B. Yeats: Interviews and Recollections, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1977) | |
| Mokashi-Punekar, Shankar | The Later Phase in the Development of W. B. Yeats: A Study in the Stream of Yeats's Later Thought and Creativity (Dharwar: Karnatak University Press, 1966; Folcroft PA: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977) | |
| “Sri Purohit Swami and W. B. Yeats”, in eds. Naik, Desai & Kallapur, The Image of India in Western Writing (Dharwar, Karnatak University Press; Madras: Macmillan, 1971), 127-148. | ||
| Moore, Virginia | The Unicorn: W. B. Yeats’ Search for Reality (New York NY: Macmillan, 1954) [TU] | |
| Muldoon, Paul | The End of the Poem: “All Souls’ Night” by W. B. Yeats, Inaugural Lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry, 2 November 1999, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) | |
| O’Donnell, William H. | ed., The Speckled Bird, With Variant Versions, see Yeats. | |
| A Guide to the Prose Fiction of W. B. Yeats (Ann Arbor MI: UMI Research Press, 1983) | ||
| ed., Autobiographies (Collected Works Vol. III), see Yeats | ||
| ed., Later Essays (Collected Works Vol. V), see Yeats | ||
| ed., Prefaces and Introductions (Collected Works Vol. VI), see Yeats | ||
| O’Driscoll, Robert | “Yeats on Personality: Three Unpublished Lectures”, YT 4-59. | |
| O’Driscoll, Robert and Lorna Reynolds | eds., Yeats and the Theatre, (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; Niagara Falls, New York: Maclean-Hunter Press, 1975) [YT] | |
| O’Shea, Edward | A Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats’s Library, (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985), with item number. [YL] | |
| “The 1920s Catalogue of W. B. Yeats’s Library”, YA 4 (1986) 279-90. | ||
| Olney, James | “W. B. Yeats’s Daimonic Memory”, Sewanee Review 85:5 (Fall 1977), 583-603. | |
| The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial Philosophy - Yeats and Jung (Berkeley & L.A.: University of California Press, 1980) | ||
| “Sex and the Dead: Daimones of Yeats and Jung”, Studies in the Literary Imagination 14:1 (Atlanta: Georgia State University, Spring 1981), 43-60. | ||
| Parkinson, Thomas | “This Extraordinary Book”, YA 1 (1982) 195-206. | |
| Raine, Kathleen | Yeats the Initiate: Essays on Certain Themes in the Work of W. B. Yeats (Portlaoise: Dolmen; London: George Allen & Unwin, 1986) | |
| W. B. Yeats and the Learning of the Imagination (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1999) | ||
| Reeves, Marjorie | Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel, see Gould. | |
| Ronsley, Joseph | “Yeats’s Lecture Notes for ‘Friends of My Youth’”, YT 60-81. | |
| Ritvo, Rosemary Puglia | “A Vision B: The Plotinian Metaphysical Basis”, Review of English Studies 26, (1975) 34-46. | |
| “Plotinus’s Third Ennead and Yeats’s A Vision (1925)”, Notes and Queries, 1976, 19-21. | ||
| Ronsley, Joseph | Yeats’s Autobiography: Life as Symbolic Pattern (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1968) | |
| Ross, David | W. B. Yeats (New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset, 2001) | |
| Ryan, Rory | “The Opening and Closing of the Tinctures: An Analysis”, YA 17 (2008) 309-352. | |
| Saddlemyer, Ann | Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) | |
| ed. The World of W. B. Yeats | ||
| Schuchard, Ronald | ed., Collected Letters Vol. 3, see Yeats | |
| Seiden, Morton Irving | William Butler Yeats: The Poet as Mythmaker 1865-1939 (East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press, 1962. [YPM] | |
| Sherwood, Philip | W. B. Yeats and the Search for Tradition (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1975) | |
| Sidnell, Michael J. | ed., The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition, see Yeats. | |
| Skelton, Robin & David R. Clark | eds. Irish Renaissance: A Gathering of Essays, Memoirs and Letters from ‘The Massachusetts Review’ (Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1965) | |
| Skelton, Robin and Ann Saddlemyer | eds. The World of W. B. Yeats (1965; rev. ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967) | |
| Sprayberry, Sandra L. | see Yeats’s Vision Papers Vols. 1 & 2 | |
| Sri, P. S. | “Yeats and Mohini Chatterjee”, YA 11 (1994) 61-76. | |
| Stallworthy, Jon | Between the Lines: W. B. Yeats’s Poetry in the Making (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963) | |
| Vision and Revision in Yeats’s Last Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969) | ||
| Steinmann, Martin | ed., The Permanence of Yeats see Hall | |
| Stock, A. G. | W. B. Yeats: His Poetry and Thought (London: Cambridge University Press, 1961) | |
| Stoops Jr., Richard W. | see Yeats’s Vision Papers Vol. 4 | |
| Swain, Stella | “The Problem of Belief in Yeats’ A Vision: Text and Context”, Literature and Theology 5 (1991) 198-219. | |
| Thornton, Weldon | “Between Circle and Straight Line: A Pragmatic View of W. B. Yeats and the Occult”, Studies in the Literary Imagination 14:1, Special Issue, “W.B.Yeats: The Occult and Philosophical Backgrounds”, (Atlanta: Georgia State University, Spring 1981), 61-75. | |
| Toomey, Deirdre, ed. | Yeats Annual 9 (London: Macmillan, 1992) [YA 9] | |
| “The Unwilling Persephone”, review of Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers, YA 10 (1993) 267-273. | ||
| ed., Collected Letters Vol. 2, see Yeats | ||
| ed., Mythologies, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) | ||
| Ure, Peter | “The Integrity of Yeats”, in ed. C. J. Rawson, Yeats and Anglo-Irish Literature: Critical Essays (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1974) | |
| Vendler, Helen Hennessy | Yeats’s Vision and the Later Plays (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1963) | |
| Whitaker, Thomas Russell | Swan and Shadow: Yeats’s Dialogue with History (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1964; Catholic University of America Press, 1989) | |
| Witemeyer, Hugh | ed., Letters to the New Ireland (Collected Works Vol. VII), see Yeats | |
| Wilson, Edmund | Axel’s Castle (1931; Glasgow: Collins, Fontana, 1961; 1979) | |
| Wilson, F. A. C. | W. B. Yeats and Tradition (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1958) | |
Works by Yeats | ||
| Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (London: Walter Scott, 1888) | ||
| The Collected Works in Verse and Prose (8 vols.; Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare’s Head, 1908) | ||
| Per Amica Silentia Lunae (London: Macmillan, 1918) | ||
| The Trembling of the Veil (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1922) | ||
| A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon certain Doctrines attributed to Kusta Ben Luka (London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1925) [AV A]. | ||
| Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1926) | ||
| A Packet for Ezra Pound (Dundrum: Cuala, 1929) [PEP] | ||
| ed.,The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1895-1935, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936) [OBMV] | ||
| A Vision (1937; London: Macmillan, 1962) [AV B] | ||
| Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1955) [Au] | ||
| eds. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957; 3rd corrected printing, 1966) [VP] | ||
| Mythologies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1959) [Myth] | ||
| Essays and Introductions (London and New York: Macmillan, 1961) [E&I] | ||
| ed. Donald R. Pearce, The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960; London: Faber and Faber, 1961) | ||
| selected by Mrs W. B. Yeats, Explorations (London: Macmillan, 1962; New York: Macmillan, 1963) [Ex] | ||
| ed. Russell K. Alspach assisted by Catherine C. Alspach, The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats, (London and New York: Macmillan, 1966; 2nd corrected printing, 1966) [VPl] | ||
| ed. Richard J. Finneran, John Sherman AND Dhoya (Detroit MI: Wayne State University Press, 1969) | ||
| ed. Denis Donoghue, Memoirs: Autobiography - First Draft: Journal, (London: Macmillan, 1972; New York: Macmillan, 1973). [Mem] | ||
| ed. William H. O’Donnell, The Speckled Bird, With Variant Versions, (Toronto: McLelland & Stewart, 1976) | ||
| eds. Phillip L. Marcus, Warwick Gould and Michael J. Sidnell, The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition, (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1981) [VSR] | ||
| eds. Warwick Gould & Deirdre Toomey, Mythologies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) | ||
| ed. J. S. Kelly, The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986- 1997): | ||
| Volume I, 1865-1895, with Eric Domville (1986) [CL1] | ||
| Volume II, 1896-1900, with Warwick Gould & Deirdre Toomey (1997) [CL2] | ||
| Volume III, 1901-1904, with Ronald Schuchard (1994) [CL3] | ||
| Volume IV, 1905-1907, with Ronald Schuchard (2005) [CL4] | ||
| Wade, Allan, ed. | The Letters of W. B. Yeats, (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954; N. Y.: Macmillan, 1955) [L] | |
| Wade, Allan | revised Russell K. Alspach, A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats, (1951; 3rd ed., London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968) | |
| correspondence | with T. Sturge Moore [TSMC] | |
| with Frank Pearce Sturm | ||
| The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, general editors Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper (publication details vary) | ||
| Volume I: The Poems, ed. Richard J. Finneran (New York: Macmillan, 1989) | ||
| Volume II: The Plays, eds. David R. Clark & Rosalind E. Clark (New York & London: Palgrave, 2001; New York: Scribner, 2001) | ||
| Volume III: Autobiographies, eds. William H. O’Donnell, Douglas N. Archibald, J. Fraser Cocks III, Gretchen L. Schwenker(New York: Scribner, 1999) | ||
| Volume IV: Early Essays, eds. Richard Finneran & George Bornstein (New York: Scribner, 2007) | ||
| Volume V: Later Essays, ed. William H. O’Donnell with Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux (NY & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994) | ||
| Volume VI: Prefaces and Introductions, ed. William H. O’Donnell (London: Macmillan, 1988) | ||
| Volume VII: Letters to the New Island, eds. George Bornstein & Hugh Witemeyer (New York: Macmillan, 1989) | ||
| Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement, eds. Mary FitzGerald & Richard J. Finneran (New York: Scribner, 2003) | ||
| Volume IX: Early Articles and Reviews, ed. John P. Frayne & Madeleine Marchaterre (New York & London: Palgrave, 2001; New York: Scribner, 2004) | ||
| Volume X: Later Articles and Reviews, ed. Colton Johnson (New York: Scribner, 2000) | ||
| Volume XI: Mythologies, (not yet published) (cf. Mythologies, 2005) | ||
| Volume XII: John Sherman and Dhoya, ed. Richard J. Finneran (New York: Macmillan, 1994) | ||
| Volume XIII: A Vision (1925), eds. Catherine E. Paul & Margaret Mills Harper (New York: Scribner, 2008) | ||
| Volume XIV: A Vision (1937), eds. Catherine E. Paul & Margaret Mills Harper (not yet published) | ||
| Yeats, W. B., & Edwin John Ellis, eds. | The Works of William Blake Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, edited with lithographs of the illustrated ‘Prophetic Books,’ and a memoir and interpretation, 3 vols. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893) [WWB1, 2, 3] | |
| Yeats, W. B., & Shree Purohit Swāmi | The Ten Principal Upanishads, (London: Faber and Faber, 1937) | |
Cornell Manuscript Materials of Yeats’s Works | ||
| Bornstein, George, ed. | The Early Poetry, Volume 1: ‘Mosada’ and ‘The Island of Statues’ (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1986) | |
| The Early Poetry, Volume 2: ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’ and Other Early Poems to 1895 (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1994) | ||
| Holdsworth, Carolyn | The Wind Among the Reeds (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1993) | |
| Holdeman, David | In Seven Woods & The Green Helmet & Other Poems (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2002) | |
| O’Donnell, William H., ed. | Responsibilities (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2003) | |
| Parrish, Stephen | The Wild Swans at Coole (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1995) | |
| Parkinson, Thomas, & Anne Brannen | Michael Robartes and the Dancer (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1994) | |
| Clark, David R. | Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1999) | |
| The Winding Stair (1929) (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1995) | ||
| Mays, J. C. C. & Stephen Parrish | New Poems (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2001) | |
| Pethica, James | Last Poems (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1997) | |
| Sidnell, Michael J. & Wayne K. Chapman | The Countess Cathleen (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1999) | |
| Curtis, Jared | The Land of Heart’s Desire (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2002) | |
| Phillips, Catherine | The Hour-Glass (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1994) | |
| Fitzgerald, Mary, ed. | The Words Upon the Window Pane (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2002) | |
| Kiely, Declan | The King’s Threshold (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2003) | |
| Armstrong, Alison | The Herne’s Egg (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1993) | |
| Marcus, Phillip L. | The Death of Cuchulain (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, ) | |
| Siegel, Sandra F. | Purgatory (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1985) | |
Some Relevant Background Works | ||
| The majority of the works listed here are either referred to in A Vision or its preparation, or they refer to the Yeatses’ background in various esoteric traditions. Works in the Yeatses’ library are followed by the entry number in Edward O’Shea’s A Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats’s Library in the form “(YL ***)”. Those listed in the library catalogue from the 1920s are followed by “(1920s library)”, and refer to the list in O’Shea’s article in Yeats Annual 4 (1986), 279-290. Some are modern editions of works, cited for availability. | ||
| Adams, Henry Brooks | introduced Brooks Adams, The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma (1919; New York: Macmillan, 1920) (YL 16) | |
| Agrippa, H. C. | Opera (Lyons: Berengi Fratres, 1600[?]) (YL 24) | |
| The Three Books of Occult Philosophy, translated by JF (London: G. Moule, 1651) | ||
| The Three Books of Occult Philosophy, translated by JF, edited and annotated by Donald Tyson (St. Paul MN: Llewellyn, 1993) | ||
| Arabian Nights | see Mardrus and Warner | |
| Bergson, Henri | translated by N. M. Paul & W. Scott Palmer, Matter and Memory (London: Allen & Unwin, 1919) (YL 157) | |
| translated by Arthur Mitchell, Creative Evolution (London: Macmillan, 1922) (YL 156) | ||
| Besant, Annie | The Seven Principles of Man, Theosophical Manuals No. 1 (1892; London: Theosophical Publishing Society; 1897) (1920s library) | |
| Blavatsky, H. P. | Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology, 2 Vols. (New York NY: Bouton; London: Quaritch, 1877) | |
| The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, 2 vols. (London: Theosophical Publishing Co., 1888) | ||
| The Key to Theosophy (London: Theosophical Publishing Co., 1889) | ||
| The Theosophical Glossary (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1892) | ||
| Blunt, Lady Anne | Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, edited, with a preface and some account of the Arabs and their horses, by W[ilfred] S[cawen] B[lunt] 2 vols. (London: John Murray, 1879) | |
| A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race 2 vols. (London: John Murray, 1881) | ||
| Boehme, Jacob | ed. C. J. B[arker], translated by John Sparrow, The High and Deep Searching Out of the Threefold Life of Man through, or according to, the Three Principles (1650; London: John M. Watkins, 1909) (YL 237) | |
| eds. C. J. B[arker] & D. S. H[ehner], translated by John Sparrow, The Aurora (London: John M. Watkins, 1914) (YL 234) | ||
| Bridge, Ursula, ed. | W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901-1937, (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Oxford University Press, 1953) [TSMC] | |
| Browne, Sir Thomas | ed. Israel Gollancz, Religio Medici, and Urn Burial, The Temple Classics (London: J. M. Dent, 1896) (YL 289) | |
| Burkitt, F. C. | Early Eastern Christianity (London: John Murray, 1904) | |
| Burnet, John | Early Greek Philosophy (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892) (YL 308) | |
| Burton, Sir Richard F. | A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights entertainments, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with introduction, explanatory notes ... and a terminal essay upon the history of The Nights by Richard F. Burton, 16 vols. (Benares & London: Kamashastra Society, 1885-88) | |
| Burton, Robert | ed. A. R. Shilleto, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 3 vols. (London: G. Bell, 1912) (YL 311) | |
| Cicero & Pythagoras | translated by L[evavi] O[culos] [=P.W.Bullock], A[udi] E[t] A[ude][=F. Coleman], S[apere] A[ude] [=W.W.Westcott], Somnium Scipionis, The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, The Symbols of Pythagoras, ed. William Wynn Westcott, Collectanea Hermetica Vol. 5, (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1894) (YL 387) | |
| Croce, Benedetto | translated by Douglas Ainslie, The Philosophy of Spirit, 4 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1909-1921): | |
| Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic (1909; 1922) (YL 440) | ||
| Philosophy of the Practical. Economic and Ethic (1913) (YL 446) | ||
| Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept (1917) (YL 444) | ||
| Theory & History of Historiography (1921) | ||
| translated by R. G. Collingwood, The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (London: Howard Latimer, 1913) (YL 445) | ||
| Cudworth, Ralph | The True Intellectual System of the Universe (London: Richard Royston, 1678) (YL 453) | |
| Dante Alighieri | translated by P. H. Wicksteed The Convivio of Dante Alighieri, The Temple Classics (London: J. M. Dent, 1909) (YL 467) | |
| translated by H. F. Cary The Vision: or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri, The Chandos Classics (London & NY: Frederick Warne, 1890) (YL 476; other versions: YL 468-474) | ||
| Deussen, Paul | translated by J. H. Woods & C. B. Runkle, Outline of the Vedanta System of Philosophy according to Shankara (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1927) (YL 518) | |
| Doughty, C. M. | Travels in Arabia Deserta 2 vols. (London: Jonathan Cape & the Medici Society, 1923) (YL 538) (abridged version of 1908, YL 539). | |
| Duhem, Pierre | Le système du monde 10 vols. (Paris: Hermann, 1913-59) | |
| Farr, Florence [as S.S.D.D.] | Egyptian Magic ed. William Wynn Westcott, Collectanea Hermetica Vol. 8, (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1896) (YL 662A) | |
| Fechner, Theodor | translated by Hugo Wernekke, On Life and Death (3rd ed. Chicago & London: Open Court Publishing, 1914) (YL 665) | |
| Fischer, Ludwig | translated W. H. Johnston, The Structure of Thought: A Survey of Natural Philosophy (German 1927; London: George Allen & Unwin, 1931) | |
| Frazer, Sir James G. | The Golden Bough (3rd ed.; London: Macmillan, 1911-1915) (YL 697-703) | |
| Gentile, Giovanni | translated Dino Bigongiari, The Reform of Education (London: Benn Bros., 1923) (YL 741) | |
| Goblet d’Alviella, Le Comte | translated by Sir George Birdwood, The Migration of Symbols (London: Constable & Co., 1894) (YL 751) | |
| Hartmann, Franz | Magic White and Black or The Science of Finite and Infinite Life containing Practical Hints for Students of Occultism (London: George Redway, 1886) | |
| In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1890) | ||
| The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme, the God-Taught Philosopher (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trübner, 1891) (YL 853) | ||
| The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim known by the name of Paracelsus (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trübner, 1896) (YL 854) | ||
| The Principles of Astrological Geomancy (new & revd. ed., London: Wm Rider & Son, 1913) | ||
| Hastings, James & J. A. Selbie et al. | Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics 12 vols. (Edinburgh: T. & C. Clark, 1908-21) (YL 855) | |
| Hegel, G. W. F. | translated William Wallace, The Logic of Hegel (from The Encylcopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences), (2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon, 1892) | |
| translated E. S. Haldane & F. H. Simson, Lectures on the Philosophy of History 3 vols. (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trübner, 1892-96) | ||
| ‘Hermes Trismegistus’ | ed. & translated by Walter Scott, Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924) (YL 881) | |
| Holmes, W. G. | The Age of Justinian and Theodora: A History of the Sixth Century A.D. 2 vols. (2nd ed. London: G. Bell, 1912) (YL 903) | |
| Hume, Robert Ernest | translated, introduced and annotated, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, (1921; rev. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931; repr. 1971) (YL 2122) | |
| Iamblichus | translated Thomas Taylor, Iamblichus on The Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (London: Bertram & Dobell, 1895) (cf. YL 945) | |
| Inge, William Ralph | The Philosophy of Plotinus 2 vols. (London: Longmans, Green, 1918) (YL 954) | |
| Joannes Hispalensis [Juan de Sevilla, John of Seville] | Epitome Totius Astrologiae, conscripta à Ioanne Hispalensi Hispano Astrologo celeberrimo, ante annos quadrigentos, Ac nunc primum in lucem edita (Nuremburg: Montanus & Neuber, 1548) | |
| translator, edited C. S. Barach, ‘Excerpta e Libro Alfredi Anglici ‘De Motu Cordis’ item Costa-Ben-Lucae ‘De Differentia Animae et Spiritus’ Liber translatus a Johanne Hispalensi’, Bibliotheca Philosophorum Mediae Aetatis, Volume 2 (Innsbruck: Wagner’schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1878). | ||
| Jourdain, Eleanor | An Adventure, see Moberly. | |
| Keith, A. Berriedale | The Religion and Philosophy of the Vedas and Upanishads (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1925), 2 vols. (volumes 31 & 32 of Harvard Oriental Series) (YL 1058) | |
| King, Francis | Modern Ritual Magic: The Rise of Western Occultism (Bridport: Prism, 1989) (originally: Ritual Magic in England [London: Neville Spearman, 1970]) | |
| Ritual Magic of the Golden Dawn: Works by S. L. MacGregor Mathers
and Others (1987; Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1997) revised & enlarged from Astral Projection, Ritual Magic and Alchemy by S. L. MacGregor Mathers and Others (London: Neville Spearman, 1971) | ||
| Kingsford, Anna, edited by Edward Maitland | “Clothed with the Sun” being the Book of the Illuminations of Anna (Bonus) Kingsford, (New York: Frank F. Lovell, 1889) | |
| Kingsford, Anna & Edward Maitland | The Perfect Way; or, The Finding of Christ (1882; 5th ed., London: Watkins, 1923) | |
| The Credo of Christendom and other Addresses and Essays on Esoteric Christianity (London: J. M. Watkins, 1916) (YL 1064) | ||
| Leadbeater, Charles W. | The Reality of the Astral Plane (Benares & London: Theosophical Publishing, 1906) | |
| “The Astral Plane”, Transactions of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society, No. 24, Address given on 21 November 1894, (London: George Redway, 1895) | ||
| Lévi, Éliphas, [Alphonse Louis Constant] | ed. A. E. Waite, The Mysteries of Magic: A Digest of the Writings of Éliphas Lévi (London: George Redway, 1886; 2nd ed. revised and enlarged, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1897) | |
| Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855-56), translated, annotated and introduced by A. E. Waite, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual, (London: George Redway, 1896; revised 1923, reprint York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1972; 1999) (YL 1109) | ||
| Histoire de la Magie (1860), translated, annotated and prefaced by A. E. Waite The History of Magic, (London: Rider & Son, 1913; York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1999) | ||
| translated & edited William Wynn Westcott, The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum Interpreted by the Tarot Trumps (London: George Redway, 1896) (YL 1108) | ||
| McTaggart, J. McT. E. | Human Immortality and Pre-Existence (London: Edward Arnold, 1915) (YL 1201) | |
| Studies in Hegelian Cosmology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1918) (YL 1203) | ||
| The Nature of Existence, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1921 & 1927) (YL 1202) | ||
| Mardrus, J. C. | translated and edited E. Powys Mathers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 4 vols. (London: Casanova Society, 1923) (YL 251) | |
| Mathers, S. L. MacGregor | The Kabbalah Unveiled, see Rosenroth. | |
| Mead, G. R. S. | Fragments of a Faith Forgotten. Some short sketches among the Gnostics mainly of the first two centuries. A contribution to the study of Christian origins, based on the most recently recovered materials (London & Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1900) (1920s library) | |
| The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908) (1920s library) | ||
| The Doctrine of the Subtle Body in the Western Tradition (London: J. M. Watkins, 1919) | ||
| Moberly, Charlotte & Eleanor Jourdain | An Adventure (4th ed. rev.; London: Faber and Faber, 1931) (YL 1327) | |
| More, Henry | The Immortality of the Soul (London: William Morden, 1659) (YL 1378) | |
| A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings (London: William Morden, 1662) (YL 1377) | ||
| Moses,
William Stainton, [as ‘M. A. Oxon’] | Spirit Identity (London: W. H. Harrison, 1879) | |
| Higher Aspects of Spiritualism (London: E. W. Allen & Co., 1880) | ||
| Spirit Identity and Higher Aspects of Spiritualism (London: London Spiritualist Alliance, 1908) (YL 1397) | ||
| Parsons, John Denham | Our Sun-God or Christianity before Christ (London: private, 1895) (1920s library) | |
| Petrie, W. M. Flinders | The Revolutions of Civilisation (1911; 3rd ed., London & New York: Harper, 1922) (YL 1559) | |
| Plotinus | translated and introduced by Stephen MacKenna, Plotinus (5 vols; London: P.L.Warner for Medici Society, 1917-30) (YL 1589-93) | |
| Plunket, E. M. | Ancient Calendars and Constellations (London: John Murray, 1903) (YL 1596) | |
| Plutarch | translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie: commonlie called, the Morals, (London: A. Hatfield, 1603; revised, tall edition, 1657) | |
| translated by A. R. Shilleto, Morals: Ethical Essays, Bohn's Classical Library, Vol. 1 (London: George Bell, 1908) (YL 1598) | ||
| translated by C. W. King, Morals: Theosophical Essays, Bohn's Classical Library, Vol. 2 (London: George Bell, 1908) (YL 1599) | ||
| Pound, Ezra | The Translations of Ezra Pound (London: Faber & Faber, 1953; 1984) | |
| Purohit Swāmi, Shree | The Aphorisms of Yôga by Bhagwān Shree Patanjali, (London: Faber and Faber, 1938) (YL 1535) | |
| An Indian Monk: His life and adventures (London: Macmillan, 1932) (YL 2035) | ||
| Pythagoras | see Cicero and Pythagoras | |
| Qusta ibn Luqa | ‘De Differentia Animae et Spiritus’, see Joannes Hispalensis | |
| ‘Le livre des caractères de Qostâ ibn Loûqa’, see Paul Sbath | ||
| Redford, George | A Manual of Ancient Sculpture: Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman. with a chronological list of ancient sculptors and their works (2nd ed. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886) (YL 1732) | |
| Regardie, Israel | A Garden of Pomegranates. An outline of the Qabalah (Rider & Co.: London, 1932) | |
| The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Stella Matutina). 4 vols. as one (1937-68; 6th ed. St Paul MN: Llewellyn, 1989) [RGD] | ||
| Renan, Ernest | translated William G. Hutchinson, The Poetry of the Celtic Races, and Other Studies, (London: Walter Scott, 1896) (YL 1735) | |
| Rhys, Sir John | Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic Heathendom (1888; 2nd ed.; London: Williams & Norgate, 1892) (YL 1741) | |
| Robson, Vivian | The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (London: Cecil Palmer, 1923) (YL 1772) | |
| Rosenroth, Knorr von | Kabbala Denudata, translated S. L. MacGregor Mathers,The Kabbalah Unveiled (London: George Redway, 1887) (YL 1292 & 1292a) | |
| Russell, Bertrand | An Outline of Philosophy (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927) (YL 1798) | |
| Russell, George (AE) | Song and its Fountains (London: Macmillan, 1932) | |
| Schneider, Hermann | translated by Margaret Green, The History of World Civilization 2 vols. (London: George Routledge, 1931) (YL 1853) | |
| Shastri, Hari Prasad | Wisdom from the East (London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1936) | |
| Sinnett, A. P. | The Occult World (London: Trübner & Co., 1881) | |
| Esoteric Buddhism (London: Trübner & Co., 1883; the 5th ed., annotated & enlarged (1885) has been reprinted [as Esoteric Budhism]: San Diego: Wizards Bookshelf, 1994) | ||
| Spence, Lewis | An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (London: G. Routledge, 1920) | |
| Spengler, Oswald | translated by C. F. Atkinson, The Decline of the West 2 vols. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926-29) (YL 1975 & 1975A) | |
| Strindberg, August | En Blå Bok, translated Claud Field, Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts, (London: George Allen, 1913) (1920s library) | |
| Sturm, Frank Pearce | see Taylor R. | |
| Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro | Essays in Zen Buddhism (London: Luzac, 1927) (YL 2033) | |
| Swedenborg, Emanuel | translated by J. J. Garth Wilkinson & R. L. Tafel, Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and Concerning the Divine Wisdom (London: Swedenborg Society, 1883) (YL 2036) | |
| translated by George Bush & J. H. Smithson, The Spiritual Diary, 5 vols. (London: James Speirs, 1883-1902) (YL 2040-2040D) | ||
| translated by J. Clowes Arcana Coelestia, 13 vols. (London: Swedenborg Society, 1891) (Vol. 1: YL 2037) | ||
| translated by J. R. Rendell & I. Tansley, The Principia or the First Principles of Natural Things, 2 vols. (London: Swedenborg Society, 1912) (YL 2039 & 2039a) | ||
| Taylor, A. E. | A Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928) (YL 2107) | |
| Taylor, R. | ed., Frank Pearce Sturm: His Life, Letters, and Collected Work (Urbana, Chicago & London: U. Illinois Press, 1969) | |
| Taylor, Thomas | see Iamblichus | |
| Thorndike, Lynn | A History of Magic and Experimental Science during the first thirteen centuries of our era 2 vols. (subsequently 8 vols.) (London: Macmillan, 1923) (YL 2134) | |
| Tritheim, Johannes [Trithemius], Abbot of Spanheim | Traité des Causes Secondes (De Septem Secundeis: Chronologica Mystica), Bibliothèque Rosicrucienne Première Série No. 1 (Paris: Bibliothèque Chacornac, [n.d., late 19th century]) | |
| Various | Five Years of Theosophy: Mystical, Philosophical, Theosophical, Historical and Scientific Essays Selected from “The Theosophist” (London: Reeves & Turner, 1885) | |
| Vico, Giambattista | The New Science of Giambattista Vico, translated Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch (1948; Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1984) | |
| Waite, A. E. | The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah (Theosophical Publishing Society: London, 1902) | |
| The Key to the Tarot: being fragments of a secret tradition under the veil of divination (William Rider & Son: London, 1910); later: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. . . (Rider: 1911) | ||
| The Secret Doctrine in Israel. A study of the Zohar and its connections (William Rider & Son: London, 1913) | ||
| The Holy Kabbalah. A study of the secret tradition in Israel (Williams & Norgate: London, 1929) | ||
| translator: see Lévi | ||
| Warner A. & A. E. | eds., Five Favourite Tales from the Arabian Nights in Words of One Syllable (London: H. K. Lewis, 1871) (YL 676) | |
| Westcott, William Wynn | translated & annotated, Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Formation and the Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom (Bath: Robert Fryar, 1887; 2nd ed. 1893)(London: J. M. Watkins, 1911; YL 1870) | |
| ed. R. A. Gilbert, The Magical Mason: Forgotten Hermetic Writings of William Wynn Westcott, Physician and Magus (Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1983) | ||
| ed. D. Küntz, The Kabbalah of the Golden Dawn (Holmes: Edmonds WA, 1997) | ||
A few other works of interest | ||
| The following list includes works which are referred to on the site but are not directly relevant to A Vision, and also some books which have built on Yeats’s system to create astrological readings of the Phases of the Moon. | ||
| Allen, Richard Hinckley | Star-Names and their Meanings (New York, NY: G. E. Stechert, 1899); reprinted as Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning (NY: Dover Publications, 1963). | |
| al-Nadim [an-Nadim], Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn | Kitab al-Fihrist, 2 vols; ed. Gustav Flügel, with Johannes Rödigger and August Müller, (Leipzig: F.C.W.Vogel, 1872); edited and translated Bayard Dodge, The Fihrist of Al-Nadim: A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture, 2 vols (NY & London: Columbia Univ Press, 1970). | |
| Arbib, M. A. & M. B. Hesse | The Construction of Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) Edinburgh Gifford Lectures, 1983. | |
| Aromatico, Andrea | trans. Jack Hawkes, Alchemy: The Great Secret (Gallimard, 1996; NY: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2000). | |
| Arroyo, Stephen | Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements (Sebastopol CA: CRCS Publications, 1975). | |
| Bennett, J. G. | Gurdjieff: A Very Great Enigma (1969; Ripon: Coombe Springs Press, 1984) | |
| Brown, Robert | Researches into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians (2 vol. London: Williams & Norgate, 1899, 1900) | |
| Burckhardt, Titus | translated by Bulent Rauf, Mystical Astrology according to Ibn ’Arabi (Une clef spirituelle de l’astrologie musulmane d’après Mohyi-d-din Ibn ’Arabi) (French, 1950; Abingdon: Beshara Publications, 1977) | |
| Busteed, Marilyn, Richard Tiffany and Dorothy Wergin | The Phases of the Moon: A Guide to Evolving Human Nature (Berkeley & London: Shambala, 1975). | |
| Carmody, Francis J. | Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation: A Critical Bibliography (Berkeley & LA: University of California Press, 1956) | |
| Colquhoun, Ithell | Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and the ‘Golden Dawn’ (London: Spearman, 1975) | |
| Crowley, Aleister | Moonchild: A Prologue (1929; York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1970) | |
| Decker, Ronald and Michael Dummett | A History of the Occult Tarot 1870-1970 (London: Duckworth, 2002) | |
| Dee, Dr John | ed. Meric Casaubon A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for Many Yeers between Dr. John Dee . . . and some Spirits (London: T. Garthwait, 1659) (YL 501). | |
| Eliade, Mircea | Occultism, Witchcraft and Cultural Fashions (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1976) | |
| translated by W. R. Trask, The myth of the eternal return. or, cosmos and history (Le mythe de l’eternel retour. Archétypes et répétitions, 1951), Bollingen series. 46 (1954; Routledge & Kegan Paul: [Henley-on-Thames, 1982?]) | ||
| Gilbert, R. A. | The Golden Dawn: Twilight of the Magicians (Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: The Aquarian Press, 1983) | |
| Godwin, Joscelyn | The Theosophical Enlightenment (Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1994) | |
| Goldring, Douglas | The Nineteen Twenties: A General Survey and some Personal Memories (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1945) | |
| Goldsmith, Martin | Moon Phases: A Symbolic Key (West Chester, Penn.: Whitford Press, 1988). | |
| Grabes, Herbert | Speculum, Mirror und Looking-Glass: Kontinuität und Originalität der Spiegelmetapher in den Buchtiteln des Mittelalters und der englischen Literatur des 13. bis 17. Jahrhunderts (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1973) | |
| Gregory, Augusta, Lady | edited by Daniel J. Murphy, Lady Gregory’s Journals 2 vols. (Gerards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1978 & 1987) | |
| Howe, Ellic | The Magicians of the Golden Dawn (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972) | |
| Ibn Wahshiyah [Ahmad bin Abubekr bin Wahshih] | translated, edited and introduced by Joseph Hammer [later Baron von Hammer-Purgstall], Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained: with an account of the Egyptian priests, their classes, initiation and sacrifices (London: G. & W. Nicol, 1806)(YL 832). | |
| Khvol’son, Daniil Avraamovich [also Daniel Chwolsohn or Chwolson] | Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus (St Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1856) | |
| Über die Überreste der Altbabylonischen Literatur in Arabischen Übersetzungen (St Petersburg, 1859). | ||
| Lewis, Wyndham | The Caliph's Design: Architects! Where is your Vortex? (London: The Egoist, 1919) (YL 1118). | |
| Lurie, Alison | Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson (New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2001) | |
| Merrill, James [& David Jackson] | The Changing Light at Sandover, including the whole of The Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant, and a new coda, The Higher Keys (New York, NY: Atheneum, 1985) | |
| Nizida | The Astral Light: An Attempted Exposition of Certain Occult Principles in Nature, with some remarks upon Modern Spiritualism (London, Theosophical Publishing, 1889) | |
| Renan, Ernest | translated by S. Symonds, An Essay on the Age and Antiquity of the Book of Nabathæan Agriculture (1860; [English] London: Trübner & Co., 1862). | |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Eureka: A Prose Poem (New York NY: G. P. Putnam, 1848) | |
| O’Leary, De Lacy Evans | How Greek Science passed to the Arabs (1949; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,1979). | |
| Rudhyar, Dane | The Lunation Cycle: A Key to the Understanding of Personality (1967; Santa Fe, CA: Aurora Press, 1986). | |
| Said, Edward | Orientalism (1978; rev. with Afterword, NY: Vintage Books, 1994) | |
| Sbath, Paul | ‘Le livre des caractères de Qostâ ibn Loûqa, grand savant et célèbre médecin chrétien au IXe siècle’, Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte XXIII: 1 (Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1941). | |
| Stone, J. Henry Van | The Pathway of the Soul: A Study in Zodiacal Symbology (London: Modern Astrology/Fowler, 1912) (1920s library) | |
| Tester, S. J. | A History of Western Astrology (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1987) | |
| Vickers, Brian | “On the Function of Analogy in the Occult”, in: eds. Ingrid Merkel and Allen G. Debus, Hermeticism and the Renaissance: Intellectual History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe (London: Associated University Presses, 1988) | |
| Volguine, A. | Astrologie Lunaire (1936; rev. 1947; Paris: Dervy-Livres, 1977) | |
| Watts, Alan | The Two Hands of God: Myths of Polarity (1963; London: Rider & Co., 1978) | |
| Webb, James | The Occult Underground (La Salle IL: Open Court Publishing, 1974), originally The Flight from Reason (London: Macdonald & Co, 1971) | |
| The Occult Establishment (La Salle IL: Open Court Publishing, 1976; Richard Drew Publishing, Glasgow, 1981) | ||
| Wiles, Maurice | “Myth in Theology”, in ed. John Hick, The Myth of God Incarnate (London: SCM Press, 1977) | |
| Wilkinson, David | Your Inner Phase (private [MyPub.com], 1997) | |
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