Author:William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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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) (Unindexed)
• The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics or The Rose (1893) (Unindexed)
• The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) (External scan)
• In the Seven Woods (1903)
• 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 until 2021 due to Renewal R163206
• The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
  • A Woman Young and Old
• Word for Music, Perhaps And Other Poems (1933)
• A Full Moon in March (1935)
• New Poems (1938) (Unindexed)
• Last Poems (1939)

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
• Under Ben Bulben
• The Song of Wandering Aengus

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

• Mosada (1886)
• The Countess Cathleen (1892)
• The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows (1893) (Unindexed)
• The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
• The Shadowy Waters (1900)
• Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
• On Baile's Strand (1904) (1903 edition, as published in In the Seven Woods (1903)
• Where there is nothing... (1903)
• The Hour Glass (1904) (1912 edition, as published in Responsibilities)
• The King's Threshold (1904)
• The Pot of Broth (1904)
• Deirdre (1907)
• The unicorn from the stars, and other plays (1908)
  • The unicorn from the stars
  • Cathleen Ni Houlihan
  • The hour-glass
• At the Hawk's Well (1916)
• Calvary (1921)
• Four Plays for Dancers (1921)
• The Cat and the Moon (1924)
• Plays and Controversies (1924) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2020 due to Renewal R92986
• Plays in Prose and Verse (1924) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2020 due to Renewal R92981
• Sophocles' King Oedipus, a version for the modern stage (translation of Sophocles' play, 1928) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2024 due to Renewal R162692
• The Resurrection (1931)
• The Words upon the Window Pane (1934)
• The Herne's Egg, and other plays (1938) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2033 due to Renewal R375210
  • The Herne's Egg (1938) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2034 due to Renewal R378184
  • A Full Moon in March
  • The King of the Great Clock Tower (1934) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2030 due to Renewal R292749
• Purgatory (1938)
• Last Poems & Plays (1940) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2036 due to Renewal R418909

Prose

• The Celtic Twilight (1893)
• The Secret Rose (1897)
• Rosa alchemica (1914)
• Essays (1924) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2020 due to Renewal R92987
• A Vision (1925) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2021 due to Renewal R361993

Autobiography

• Volume I - Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) (External scan)
• Volume II - The Trembling of the Veil (1938)

Other

• Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) (non-fiction)
• The cutting of an agate (1912) (External scan)
• Introduction to Gitanjali (1913)
• Dramatis personae (1935) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2031 due to Renewal R315015, Renewal R315016, Renewal R315017
• Letters to the new island. (1934) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2030 due to Renewal R284228
• The Letters of W. B. Yeats. (1955) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2051 due to Renewal RE172675
• Explorations (1962) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2058 due to Renewal RE503926
• The Celtic twilight and a selection of early poems (1962) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2058 due to Renewal RE499507

Works about Yeats

• "To William Butler Yeats", a poem by Florence Earle Coates, 1904
• “Yeats, William Butler,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Yeats, William Butler,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Yeats, William Butler”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
• “Yeats, William Butler,” in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• A Catalogue of English and American First Editions of William Butler Yeats (1939), by William Matson Roth (External scan)