The Candle of Vision

George William Russell’s visionary memoir blends poetry, mysticism, and autobiographical reflection into a record of spiritual sight and inner illumination. Significant within modern esoteric and Irish literary culture, it offers readers meditations on imagination, symbols, nature, and the experience of visionary consciousness.

Irish poet, essayist, editor, and mystic who wrote under the initials AE. A leading figure in the Irish Literary Revival, he also produced influential essays and poems on spiritual experience, theosophy, and mystical philosophy.