YEATS'S PARADISES.
[N.p., but San Francisco]: Arion Press, 1991. Large octavo. Red card wrappers, string-bound. 20 pp. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Fine.
Yeats's Paradises is a lecture “delivered by the author at the University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, on 12 October, 1990, upon the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of the Arion Press edition of Poems of W. B. Yeats … “ – from the colophon. The lecture examines the various otherworlds, whether blissful, mythical, or purgatorial, that W. B. Yeats created and explored throughout his work. Vendler’s essay argues that these imagined realms provide insight into Yeats's evolving artistic vision and his critique of the earthly world. Fine. Item #804
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