The William Butler Yeats Page
( 1865-1939 )
Major Works
The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose. Edited by Richard J. Finneran. Scribner Poetry, 1997. A collection intended to give a sample of Yeats's range.
The Celtic Twilight ( 1893; 1902 ). The 1902 ( enlarged by nearly 50% ) edition was reprinted by Colin Smythe, 1994.
Poems ( 1895; 1927 ).
The Secret Rose ( 1897 ).
The Wind Among the Reeds ( 1899 ).
Cathleen Ni Hoolihan ( 1902 ). A play.
The Green Helmet and Other Poems ( 1910; enlarged, 1912 ).
Responsibilities: Poems and a Play ( 1914; enlarged, 1916 ).
Reveries over Childhood and Youth ( 1915 ).
The Wild Swans at Coole ( 1917 ).
Michael Robartes and the Dancer ( 1920 ).
The Trembling of the Veil ( 1922 ).
A Vision ( 1925; revised and enlarged, 1937; 1962 ).
Mythologies ( 1925; 1959 ). Reprints ( more or less ) The Celtic Twilight and The Secret Rose. This collection is available from Colliers, 1969.
Autobiographies ( 1926 ).
The Tower ( 1928 ).
The Winding Stair ( 1929 ).
Words for Music, Perhaps ( 1932 ).
Dramatis Personae ( 1935; enlarged, 1936 ).
New Poems ( 1938 ).
Last Poems and Two Plays ( 1939 ).
Collected Poems ( 1933; enlarged, 1950; Definitive Edition, 1956 ).
Collected Plays ( 1934; 1950 ).
Letters, Essays and Introductions. Macmillan, 1961. From earlier collections.
Explorations: Essays and Plays. Selected by Mrs. W. B. Yeats. Macmillan, 1962. Reprinted, 1989.
Collected Works of William Butler Yeats. Fourteen Volumes. Edited by Richard J. Finneran and other editors. Macmillan.
The Gonne-Yeats Letters. Edited by Anna MacBride and A. Norman Jeffares. Syracuse, 1995.
Selected Yeats Poems from The Poet's Corner.
Poetry of Yeats Extensive List of On-Line Texts from Bibliomania.
About Yeats
Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks. Macmillan, 1948. Reprinted by Norton, 1978.
A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: A New Biography. Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1989.
Yeats Societies Links and other information.
William Butler Yeats from Academy of American Poets.
Literary San Antonio. W.B. Yeats in Texas?!
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