Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Historical Cones: Yeats’s Cycles of History
Original caption: The Historical Cones
Two opposed sets of cones are divided by horizontal lines carrying historical dates and bracketed phase numbers. Red and black distinguish the interwoven cycles. The heading explains the diagram’s relation to historical faculties in Yeats’s speculative arrangement of the past and his present.
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Uncredited diagram. "The Historical Cones: Yeats’s Cycles of History" [source caption]. In A Vision, William Butler Yeats. First edition, title dated 1925; privately printed for subscribers. Complete historical text, xxiii preliminary pages and 256 numbered pages, with Edmund Dulac illustrations and the original diagrams. Internet Archive scan; matching scanned title page used as cover., 1925, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd.. Source scan leaf 204. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/vision-historical-cones
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Title from the printed caption. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Historical source image. Editorial titles and interpretations are identified as such; paper tone and historical marks retained.
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- Gyres in A VisionExpanding and contracting figures through which Yeats represents opposed tendencies and their movement.
- The Four Faculties in A VisionWill, Mask, Creative Mind and Body of Fate: the four interacting faculties in Yeats’s 1925 model.
- The Historical Cones in A VisionThe red-and-black diagram that aligns dates, phases and historical Faculties in Yeats’s first A Vision.
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Uncredited diagram. The Historical Cones: Yeats’s Cycles of History. A Vision. Scan leaf 204. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/vision-historical-cones