Volume 20, Number 20 · December 13, 1973
Yeats and the Spirits
By William Empson
Yeats, the Tarot and the Golden Dawn
by Kathleen Raine
Humanities (New Yeats Papers II, The Dolmen Press), 60 pp., $6.00 (paper)
W.B. Yeats: Memoirs, Autobiography (First Draft) and Journal
edited by Denis Donoghue
Macmillan, 318 pp., $7.95
A selection from the picture cards of the Tarot pack, especially the pictures on Yeats's own pack, compared to versions designed by his intimates, with quotations about symbols from Yeats and others which seem to derive from the cards (apparently, no direct discussion of them was encouraged in Yeats's circle)—the theme has a tantalizing charm; and Kathleen Raine makes points which I suppose are still not adequately recognized:
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