Yeats was « in the middle way » when, in 1913, he turned to the seemingly pedestrian mode of autobiography. Reveries is the first volume of The Autobiography which Yeats continued writing till his death in 1938. However, this first volume is essentially concerned with the Yeatsian quest for « Unity of Being » and has none of the historical chronicle dimension of the later volumes. It is a text of some importance given Yeats's insistence that « poetry is no rootless flower but the speech of a man ». A re-tracing of the origins of a poet, a personal creation myth. This article attempts to analyze the autobiographical act, a text somewhere between anamnesis and amnesia.Reveries, publié en 1915, est le premier volume de ce qui allait devenir Th...