Author:William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
(1865–1939)

William Butler Yeats

Works

Articles

• A Biographical Fragment (1923)
• Our Need for Religious Sincerity (1926)

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)
• 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) 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)

Poems

• Index of Titles
• Index of First Lines

Drama

• Mosada (1886)
• The Countess Cathleen (1892)
• The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) (frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley)
• The Shadowy Waters (1900)
• Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
• On Baile's Strand (1904)
• Where There is Nothing... (1903)
• The Hour-Glass (1904)
• 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 (1922 edition from Plays in Prose and Verse)
  • Cathleen ni Houlihan (1922 edition from Plays in Prose and Verse)
  • The Hour-Glass (see above)
• The Green Helmet (1912)
• At the Hawk's Well (1916)
• Calvary (1921)
• Four Plays for Dancers (1921)
• The Player Queen (1922)
• Plays in Prose and Verse (1922)
  • Cathleen ni Houlihan
  • The Pot of Broth
  • The Hour-Glass (prose)
  • The King's Threshold
  • On Baile's Strand
  • The Shadowy Waters
  • Deidre
  • The Unicorn from the Stars
  • The Green Helmet
  • The Hour-Glass (verse)
  • The Player Queen
• The Cat and the Moon (1924)
• Plays and Controversies (1924)
• Plays in Prose and Verse (Revised Edition) (1924)
• 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), (transcription project)
• The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows (1893)
• Rosa alchemica (1914)
• Essays (1924)
• A Vision (1925)

Autobiography

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

Other

• The works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic and critical (1893; edited with Edwin John Ellis)
• Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) (non-fiction)
• Irish Fairy Tales (1903) (as editor)
• Twenty-One poems (1907) (editor; poems by Katharine Tynan Hinkson)
• Esoteric Spiritualism // A Collection of Esoteric Writings of T. Subba Row, The Bombay Theosophical publication fund, Bombay, 1910
• 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
• "William Butler Yeats" in The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, by Emma Goldman (1914)
• "Yeats, William Butler," in 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)
• "Yeats, William Butler," in Thom's Irish Who's Who (p. 265), Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co. (1923)