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

• The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)

• The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics or The Rose (1893)

• The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

• In the Seven Woods (1904)

• The Green Helmet and other Poems (1912)

• Responsibilities (1914)

• The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

• Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)

• The Tower (1928) — Copyrighted in the United States due to Renewal R163206 (until 2021)

• The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) — Copyrighted in the United States

• Word for Music Perhaps (1933) — Copyrighted in the United States

• A Woman Young and Old (1933) — Copyrighted in the United States

• From a Full Moon in March (1935) — Copyrighted in the United States

• New Poems (1938)

• Last Poems (1939) — Copyrighted in the United States

Individual Poems

• The Fiddler of Dooney
• Love and Death
• Mad as the Mist and Snow
• Pardon, old fathers
• 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) [1] (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) [2]
  • 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) [3] (PD in US)
• The unicorn from the stars, and other plays (1908) [4]
  • The unicorn from the stars
  • Cathleen Ni Houlihan
  • The hour-glass
• Collaborative one-acts plays, 1901-1903 [5]

Prose

• The Celtic Twilight (1893)
• Rosa Alchemica
• The Secret Rose (1897) [6]
• Rosa alchemica (1914) [7]
• A Vision (1925) Renewal R361993
• Essays (1924) Renewal R92987 (PD in US in 2019)

Autobiography

• Volume I - Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) [8] (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) [9]

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.