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It is common knowledge that the 1925 version of A Vision was extensively revised for the second edition of 1937: as Allan Wade noted, “ so much which appeared in the first version… has been omitted and so much new material added, that this is almost a new book.” 1 However, an atypical error in the Wade/Alspach Bibli-ography 2 has heretofore obscured our awareness that the 1937 version exists in three different states and that the 1962 London edition apparently is the best available text. This note, necessarily a combination of fact and conjecture, is intended only as a prolegomenon for the needed definitive edition which will hopefully be undertaken in the near future.
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Allan Wade, A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats, 3rd ed., rev. Russell K. Alspach (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), p. 192.
(The Letters of W. B. Yeats. ed. Allan Wade [London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954], p. 792), his optimism was not fulfilled.
For information on this collection, see William E. Fredeman, “The Bibliographical Significance of a Publisher’s Archive: The Macmillan Papers,” SB, 23 (1970): 183–91.
Philip V. Blake-Hill, “The Macmillan Archive”, BMQ, 36 (1972): 74–80.
The same correction is made in Explorations, sel. Mrs. W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1962), p. 416.
As noted by Marion Witt in “Yeats: 1865–1965”, PMLA, 80 (1965): 315.
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Finneran, R.J. (1975). A Preliminary Note on the Text of A Vision (1937). In: Harper, G.M. (eds) Yeats and the Occult. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02937-2_16
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