Author:William Butler Yeats
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Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure who was one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival |
Contents
Works[edit]
Collections of poetry[edit]
- 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)
- Word for Music, Perhaps And Other Poems (1933)
- A Full Moon in March (1935)
- New Poems (1938) (Unindexed)
- Last Poems (1939)
Individual poems[edit]
- 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
- "The Blessed" in The Yellow Book, 13 (1897), pp. 11−13
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Volume I - Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916) (external scan)
- Volume II - The Trembling of the Veil (1938)
Other[edit]
- 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[edit]
- "To William Butler Yeats", a poem by Florence Earle Coates, 1904
- "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)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1924.
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 75 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.
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