Reader`s Guide to Yeats`s A Vision, Mann Neil

This book helps readers to approach and understand the origins, structure, and implications of the system. Concentrating on the 1937 revised edition of A Vision, the treatment is divided into major topic areas with several levels: a general introduction to each topic; a fuller and deeper examination
of that topic, drawing on A Visions two versions and the manuscript background, and forming the bulk of each chapter; an examination of how the topic manifests in Yeatss literary work; full notes to explore conceptual and textual problems. The first three chapters examine the background and
origins of A Vision; the central seven chapters look at the major elements involved in the system; the following four at the major processes of life and history. The main treatment ends with a summary and conclusion, and is supplemented by a glossary of terms and appendices.