A Vision: Key to Yeats as Alchemical Poet & Magician

[Paul Ferguson]

"Conflicts and oppositions in Yeats' life and chart were healed and regarded in a new light through his experience with the channeled material he received and recorded in A Vision. This was the culmination of an alchemical process of soul work"

https://www.academia.edu/112327862/A_Vis...d_Magician

[Paul Ferguson]

See also:

“The Wrong Supernatural World”: Yeats’s Mystic Revision

"Although Yeats often pointed to mysticism as an ideal framework for understanding the physical world, his
1937 emendations to A Vision seem to countermand this. A closer look reveals, however, that Yeats’s intent
was not to discount his earlier effort, but to mislead skeptics like T.S. Eliot in order that he might subvert
controversy and strengthen the work’s revelatory experience."

https://www.academia.edu/34544285/_The_W...15_pp_7_10