A Vision
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A Vision is W.B. Yeats’s esoteric philosophical work that outlines a complex system of history, personality, and the occult that underpins much of his later poetry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Vision (work by W. B. Yeats) | 2 |
| A Vision canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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esoteric work ⓘ philosophical work ⓘ |
| author |
W.B. Yeats
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surface form:
W. B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats ⓘ
surface form:
William Butler Yeats
|
| centralConcept |
Great Wheel
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gyres ⓘ historical cycles ⓘ phases of the moon ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| describedAs | outline of a complex system of history, personality, and the occult ⓘ |
| genre |
literary criticism
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occult literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| hasEdition | 1937 revised edition ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose treatise ⓘ |
| hasPart |
classification of human personalities
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discussion of the afterlife ⓘ doctrine of the gyres ⓘ occult correspondences ⓘ symbolic lunar phases ⓘ system of historical cycles ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cyclical nature of history
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interplay of fate and free will ⓘ relationship between the material and spiritual worlds ⓘ spiritual evolution ⓘ |
| influenced | symbolism in Yeats’s later poetry ⓘ |
| influencedWork | late poetry of W. B. Yeats ⓘ |
| inUniverse | personal mythological system of W. B. Yeats ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
idiosyncratic system of symbolic gyres
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influence on modernist literature ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Western esotericism
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symbolist aesthetics ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| publisher | T. Werner Laurie Ltd. ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
The Tower (poetry collection)
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The Winding Stair and Other Poems ⓘ automatic writing of W. B. Yeats and Georgie Hyde-Lees ⓘ |
| subject |
astrology
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history ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ mysticism ⓘ occultism ⓘ personality ⓘ |
| workPeriod | Yeats’s late period ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
A Vision (work by W. B. Yeats)
this entity surface form:
A Vision (work by W. B. Yeats)