Hodos

He had tried to prolong his youthful dream, had mounted into Hodos Chameliontos, and I have known none mount there and come to good that lacked philosophy.

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Hodos Camelionis, not Hodos Chameliontos, were the words, a mixture of Greek and Latin typical of such documents.3

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

It was complete for ‘Ireland after Parnell’ through what is now section XI, and was heavily cut from the middle of section XII on through ‘Hodos Chameliontos’ and ‘The Tragic Generation,’ ending with what is now its section X.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Curtis Bradford gives a detailed reconstruction of the composition of the remaining sections of The Trembling of the Veil: ‘Ireland after Parnell’ (titled ‘Ireland after the Fall of Parnell’ only in Trembling 1922), ‘Hodos Chameliontos’ (titled ‘Hodos Camelionis’ only in Trembling 1922), ‘The Tragic Generation,’ and ‘The Stirring of the Bones.’

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

A printed ‘Preliminary Notice’ of the Macmillan Edition de Luxe listed Autobiographies as volumes VI and VII, with contents the same as they would eventually be in the Macmillan, London, 1955 Autobiographies and in this edition, but in a two-volume format that divided The Trembling of the Veil between ‘Hodos Chameliontos’ and ‘The Tragic Generation,’ and with notes at the end of each volume.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Hodos Camelionis, not Hodos Chameliontos, were the words, a mixture of Greek and Latin typical of such documents.3

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Curtis Bradford gives a detailed reconstruction of the composition of the remaining sections of The Trembling of the Veil: ‘Ireland after Parnell’ (titled ‘Ireland after the Fall of Parnell’ only in Trembling 1922), ‘Hodos Chameliontos’ (titled ‘Hodos Camelionis’ only in Trembling 1922), ‘The Tragic Generation,’ and ‘The Stirring of the Bones.’

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

WBY worked steadily on the next three parts of The Trembling of the Veil: ‘Ireland after Parnell’, ‘Hodos Chameliontos’, and ‘The Tragic Generation’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

He had tried to prolong his youthful dream, had mounted into Hodos Chameliontos, and I have known none mount there and come to good that lacked philosophy.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

WBY worked steadily on the next three parts of The Trembling of the Veil: ‘Ireland after Parnell’, ‘Hodos Chameliontos’, and ‘The Tragic Generation’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965