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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. |
| Au | 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). |
| CL | 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). |
| Ex |
Explorations, selected by Mrs W. B. Yeats
(London: Macmillan, 1962; New York: Macmillan, 1963). |
| IY | Richard Ellmann, The Identity
of Yeats (1954; 2nd ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1964). |
| L | 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). |
| NC | 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).
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| SA | 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). |
| TU | Virginia Moore, The
Unicorn: W. B. Yeats’ Search for Reality (New York NY: Macmillan, 1954). |
| VP | 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). |
| YA | 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. |
| YL | 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). |
| YO | 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). |
| YT | 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. |