W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": Abbreviations (original) (raw)

The following abbreviations, where they relate to common sources in Yeats studies, are largely in line with those of the Yeats Annual. These works are also listed separately in the Bibliography.

Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1955).

AV A

A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon certain Doctrines attributed to Kusta Ben Luka (London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1925). See also CVA.

AV B

A Vision (London: Macmillan, 1962).

BYV

Hazard Adams, The Book of Yeats�s Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1995).

The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, general editor: John Kelly (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, 1997, 1994).

CVA

A Critical Edition of Yeats�s A Vision (1925), eds. George Mills Harper and Walter Kelly Hood (London: Macmillan, 1978).

E&I

Essays and Introductions (London and New York: Macmillan, 1961).

Explorations, selected by Mrs W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1962; New York: Macmillan, 1963).

Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats (1954; 2nd ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1964).

The Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. Allan Wade (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954; New York: Macmillan, 1955).

LTWBY

Letters to W. B. Yeats, eds. Richard J. Finneran, George Mills Harper and William M. Murphy with Alan B. Himber (London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University Press, 1977). 2 vols.

Mem

Memoirs: Autobiography - First Draft: Journal, transcribed & ed. Denis Donoghue (London: Macmillan, 1972; New York: Macmillan, 1973).

MRWBY

Graham Hough, The Mystery Religion of W. B. Yeats (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1984).

Myth

Mythologies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1959).

MYV

George Mills Harper, The Making of Yeats�s �A Vision�: A Study of the Automatic Script, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan; Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987).

A. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984).

OBMV

The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1895-1935, chosen by W. B. Yeats (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936).

PEP

A Packet for Ezra Pound, (Dundrum: Cuala, 1929).

Barbara Croft, �Stylistic Arrangements�: A Study of William Butler Yeats�s A Vision (London: Associated University Presses, 1987).

TSMC

W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901-1937, ed. Ursula Bridge (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Oxford University Press, 1953).

Virginia Moore, The Unicorn: W. B. Yeats� Search for Reality (New York NY: Macmillan, 1954).

The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, eds. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957; corrected 3rd printing 1966.

VPl

The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats,ed. Russell K. Alspach assisted by Catherine C. Alspach (London and New York: Macmillan, 1966; corrected 2nd printing 1966).

VSR

The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition eds. Phillip L. Marcus, Warwick Gould and Michael J. Sidnell (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1981).

WWB

The Works of William Blake Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, edited with lithographs of the illustrated "Prophetic Books," and a memoir and interpretation, eds. Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, 3 vols. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893).

Yeats Annual (London: Macmillan, 1982-2000; Palgrave, 2001-), referred to by issue number.

YAACTS

Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies (publishers vary, 1983-), referred to by issue number.

A Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats�s Library, Edward O�Shea, (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985), cited by item number.

YM&M

Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks (2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).

Yeats and the Occult, ed. George Mills Harper (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; Niagara Falls NY: Maclean-Hunter Press, 1975).

YPM

Morton Irving Seiden, William Butler Yeats: The Poet as Mythmaker 1865-1939(East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press, 1962).

Yeats and the Theatre ed. Robert O�Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; Niagara Falls NY: Maclean-Hunter Press, 1975).

YVP

Yeats�s Vision Papers (London: Macmillan, 1992), George Mills Harper (General Editor) assisted by Mary Jane Harper; see the Bibliography for the editors of individual volumes.