Author:William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
(1865–1939)

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Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure who was one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival

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)
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

The Island of Statues (1885)
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 (1928)
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)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1939, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 84 years or less. These works may 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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