Author:William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

An Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure who was one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival.

William Butler Yeats

Works

Collections of poetry

• Crossways (1889)
  • The Stolen Child (1889)
• The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics also known as The Rose (1893)
  • The Rose of Battle (1893)
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1892)
  • Rose of the World (1892)
  • When You Are Old (1892)
• Poems (1895)
• The Wind among the Reeds (1899)
  • He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1899)
• In the Seven Woods (1903)

• The Green Helmet and other Poems (1910)
  • His Dream
  • A Woman Homer Sung
  • The Consolation also known as Words
  • No Second Troy
  • Reconciliation
  • King and No King
  • Peace
  • Against Unworthy Praise
  • The Fascination of What's Difficult
  • A Drinking Song
  • The Coming of Wisdom with Time
  • On Hearing That The Students....
  • To a Poet
  • The Mask
  • Upon a House
  • At the Abbey Theatre
  • These are the Clouds
  • At Galway Races
  • A Friend's Illness
  • All Things Can Tempt Me
  • The Young Man's Song also known as Brown Penny
  • The Hour-Glass 1912
  • Notes

• Responsibilities (1914)
  • Introductory Rhymes
  • The Grey Rock
  • The Two Kings
  • To a Wealthy Man
  • September 1913
  • To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
  • Paudeen
  • To a Shade
  • When Helen Lived
  • The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World'
  • The Three Beggars
  • The Three Hermits
  • Beggar to Beggar Cried
  • The Well and the Tree
  • Running to Paradise
  • The Hour before Dawn
  • The Player Queen
  • The Realists
  • The Witch
  • The Peacock
  • The Mountain Tomb
  • To a Child Dancing in the Wind
  • A Memory of Youth
  • Fallen Majesty
  • Friends
  • The Cold Heaven
  • That the Night Come
  • An Appointment
  • The Magi
  • The Dolls
  • A Coat
  • Closing Rhymes

• The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
  • The Wild Swans at Coole
  • In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
  • An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
  • Men Improve With the Years
  • The Collar-Bone of a Hare
  • Under the Round Tower
  • Solomon to Sheba
  • The Living Beauty
  • A Song
  • To a Young Beauty
  • To a Young Girl
  • The Scholars
  • Tom O'Roughley
  • Shepherd and Goatherd
  • Lines Written in Dejection
  • The Dawn
  • On Woman
  • The Fisherman
  • The Hawk
  • Memory
  • Her Praise
  • The People
  • His Phoenix
  • A Thought From Propertius
  • Broken Dream
  • A Deep-Sworn Vow
  • Presences
  • The Balloon of the Mind
  • To a Squirrel at Kule-na-no
  • On Being Asked for a War Poem
  • In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
  • Upon a Dying Lady
  • Ego Dominus Tuus
  • A Prayer on Going Into My House
  • The Phases of the Moon
  • The Cat and the Moon
  • The Saint and the Hunchback
  • Two Songs of a Fool
  • Another Song of a Fool
  • The Double Vision of Michael Robartes

• Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
  • Easter, 1916 (1921)
  • The Second Coming (1920)
  • A Prayer for my Daughter (1921)
• Later Poems (1922) Renewal R92982 [1] (PD in US)
  • The wind among the reeds (1899)
  • The old age of Queen Maeve (1903)
  • Baile and Aillinn (1903)
  • In the Seven Woods (1904)
  • The shadowy waters (1906)
  • From The green helmet and other poems (1912)
  • Responsibilities (1914)
  • The wild swans at Coole (1919)
  • Michael Robartes and the dancer (1921)
• Early poems and stories (1925) Renewal R109043
• The Tower (1926) Renewal R163206 (PD in US in 2021)
  • Sailing to Byzantium (1926)
  • Leda and the Swan (1924)
  • Among School Children (1926)
  • The New Faces (1926)
• The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
• Collected poems (1933) Renewal R280791
• Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems (1935)
• Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936, as editor and prefacer) Renewal R343175
• New Poems (1938)
• Last Poems (1939)
  • The Black Tower (1939)
• Four Years
• Stories of Red Hanrahan [1914) [2]
• Synge and the Ireland of His Time
• Rosa alchemica (1914) [3]

Individual Poems

• The Wanderings of Oisin (1889)
• Poems written in Discouragement (1913)
• Falling of Leaves
• The Fiddler of Dooney
• Love and Death
• Mad as the Mist and Snow
• Pardon, old fathers
• Politics (1936–38)
• Those Dancing Days Are Gone
• Swift's Epitaph

Anthologised:

• Yeats, W. B. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and "The Fiddler of Dooney" Harry Clarke (ill.). The year's at the spring, 1920.

Drama

• At the Hawk's Well (1916)
• Calvary (1921)
• The Cat and the Moon (1924)
• Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
• The Countess Cathleen (1892-1912)
• Deirdre (1907)
• Four Plays for Dancers (1921)
• The Hour Glass (1904) [4] (PD in US) (1912 Edition)
• The King's Threashold (1904)
• The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
• Mosada (1886)
• Oedipus Rex (1928, translation of Sophocles' work)
• On Baile's Strand (1905)
• The Pot of Broth
• Purgatory (1938)
• The Resurrection (1931)
• The Shadowy Waters (1900)
• The Words upon the Window Pane (1934)
• The Herne's Egg, and other plays (1938) Renewal R375210 (PD in US in 2033) [5]
  • The herne's egg (1938) Renewal R378184
  • A full moon in March
  • The king of the great clock tower Renewal R292749
• Plays and controversies (1924) Renewal R92986 (PD in US in 2019)
• Plays in prose and verse (1924) Renewal R92981
• Last poems & plays (1940) Renewal R418909
• Where there is nothing... (1903) [6] (PD in US)
• The unicorn from the stars, and other plays (1908) [7]
  • The unicorn from the stars
  • Cathleen Ni Houlihan
  • The hour-glass
• Collaborative one-acts plays, 1901-1903 [8]

Prose

• The Celtic Twilight (1893)
• Rosa Alchemica
• The Secret Rose (1897) [9]
• A Vision (1925) Renewal R361993
• Essays (1924) Renewal R92987 (PD in US in 2019)

Autobiography

• Volume I - Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) [10] (PD)
• Volume II - The Trembling of the Veil (1938)

Other

• Introduction to Gitanjali (1913)
• Dramatis personae Renewal R315015 Renewal R315016 Renewal R315017
• Letters to the new island. Renewal R284228
• The Letters of W. B. Yeats. Renewal RE172675
• Explorations Renewal RE503926
• The Celtic twilight and a selection of early poems. Renewal RE499507
• The cutting of an agate (1912) [11]

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1939, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.