Reviews of A Vision

In collecting together all the reviews of A Vision itself and A Packet for Ezra Pound, I have relied on K. P. S. Jochum’s invaluable bibliography; his section of reviews of books by Yeats (Section G) in turn refers to Wade’s bibliography: W149 (A Vision A), W163 (A Packet for Ezra Pound), W191/192 (A Vision B, British and US editions). For some years there were a few gaps on this page, but these have now been filled, and all of the reviews on Jochum's list are available here, though rearranged into chronological order.

The texts are given in a form as close to that of the originals as possible, so that I have not standardised variations of punctuation or italicisation. Only the page-layout, column-arrangement, and consequent hyphenation at the ends of lines have been dispensed with. Any ellipsis included is that of the originals, not editing here. These reviews are journalism, so there are inevitable inconsistencies and odd errors; since some of the reviews include ‘sic’, the misprints I have reproduced for accuracy's sake have been indicated in red ‘[sic]’. The quotations from Yeats are given as they appear in the review, and there are some errors here too. As for actual material errors, A.E.’s review does, for instance, count thirty phases in Yeats’s System and Mary Colum does call Creative Mind and Body of Fate the Knower and the Unknown, but these are not commented on.

These reviews are intended as a scholarly resource, so I have been very careful in the transcription and checking, but if you wish to use them and are unsure about the accuracy of any detail e-mail me and I can check again against the originals—increasingly many of them are available online or on library databases.

Each review is on a separate webpage; at the end of the list, however, there is a link to a collected version (265Kb), which may be more readily searchable. The search engines at the bottom search the whole site, but the pages of the reviews are all of the format Gnnn, with the exception of Edmund Wilson’s review which starts CB, since it was substantially included in his book Axel’s Castle.

A Vision A (Wade 149)
13 February 1926	The Irish Statesman	review	AE	text	G482
27 March 1926	The New Statesman	‘The Visionary Yeats’	anon.	text	G479
22 April 1926	The Times Literary Supplement	‘Mr. Yeats’s Occultism’	[de Selincourt]	text	G481
October 1926	The Quest	‘A Vision’	[G. R. S. Mead]	text	G480
October 1926	Adelphi	short notice	anon.	text	G478
16 January 1929	New Republic	‘Yeats’s Guide to the Soul’	Edmund Wilson	text	CB527
A Packet for Ezra Pound (Wade 163)
7 September 1929	The Irish Statesman	review	AE	text	G553
18 September 1929	Commonweal	‘Mr. Yeats’s Trivia’	Seán O’Faoláin	text	G551
4 December 1929	The Nation	‘Mr. Yeats’s Kubla Khan’	Seán O’Faoláin	text	G552
A Vision B (Wade 191 & 192)
18 October 1937	The Scotsman	‘Mr. Yeats’s Vision: Messages of the “Communicators”’	Edwin Muir	text	G791
November 1937	Ireland To-day	‘Mummy Is Become Merchandise’	Cecil Ffrench Salkeld	text	G798
November 1937	The London Mercury	‘Mr. Yeats’s Metaphysical Man’	Seán O’Faoláin	text	G792
2 November 1937	The Irish Independent	‘Invisible Beings Communicated with Mr. Yeats, He Says’	R[oibeárd] O F[aracháin]	text	G787
8 November 1937	The Irish News	‘Mr. W. B. Yeats’s Latest Book’	C. E.	text	G785
9 November 1937	The Liverpool Daily Post	‘Beyond the Normal’	O[liver] E[dwards]	text	G786
15 November 1937	Boekenschouw	‘Het visioen van William Butler Yeats’	Jos[eph] Panhuysen	text	G793
19 November 1937	The Cambridge Review	‘Yeats’s Mysticism’	J. Bronowski	text	G781
19 November 1937	The Spectator	‘The Source of Poetry’	Michael Roberts	text	G797
4 December 1937	Time and Tide	‘Staring at Miracle’	Charles Williams	text	G801
8 December 1937	The Listener	review	anon.	text	G775
20 January 1938	The New English Weekly	review	anon.	text	G776
22 January 1938	The New Statesman	review	anon.	text	G777
22 January 1938	The Illustrated London News	review	C. E. B.	text	G778
4 February 1938	The Church of Ireland Gazette	review	anon.	text	G774
March 1938	New Verse	‘Thy Chase Had a Beast in View’	G. E. G[rigson]	text	G788
March-April 1938	Poetry Review	‘A Poet’s Dream’	H. T. Hunt Grubb	text	G789
12 March 1938	The Saturday Review	‘Speculations of a Poet’	William Rose Benét	text	G780
13 March 1938	The New York Times Book Review	‘W. B. Yeats Expounds His “Heavenly Geometry”’	Horace Reynolds	text	G795
25 March 1938	The Commonweal	‘Doom’	Michael Williams	text	G802
April 1938	Criterion	review	Stephen Spender	text	G799
April 1938	Forum and Century	‘A Poet’s Philosophy’	Mary M. Colum	text	G783
20 April 1938	New Republic	‘Yeats’s Vision’	Edmund Wilson	text	G803
23 April 1938	Boston Evening Transcript	‘Poetry Now’	John Holmes	text	G790
May-June 1938	Les Langues Modernes	review	A. Rivoallan	text	G796
8 May 1938	New York Herald Tribune Books	‘Bones of a Poet’s Vision’	Babette Deutsch	text	G784
Summer 1938	Yale Review	‘Through Frenzy to Truth’	Kerker Quinn	text	G794
July-September 1938	Études Anglaises	review	M. L. Cazamian	text	G782
9 July 1938	The Nation	‘Lend a Myth to God’	Eda Lou Walton	text	G800
March 1939	Philosophical Review	review	R. C. Bald	text	G779

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