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Some, perhaps all, of those readers I most value, those who have read me many years, will be repelled by what must seem an arbitrary, harsh, difficult symbolism. Yet such has almost always accompanied expression that unites the sleeping and waking mind. (AV B 23)
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For the tangled history of publication and revision, one may consult Connie K. Hood, “The Remaking of A Vision”, YAACTS 1 (1983) 33–67.
James Lovic Allen, “Belief versus Faith in the Credo of Yeats”, Journal of Modern Literature, 4 (1975) 692–716.
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Mcdowell, C. (1988). “The Completed Symbol”: Daimonic Existence and the Great Wheel in A Vision (1937). In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07948-3_9
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