W. B. Yeats bibliography explained

This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised. Posthumous editions are also included if they are the first publication of a new or significantly revised work. Years are linked to corresponding "year in poetry" articles for works of poetry, and "year in literature" articles for other works.

1880s

• 1885  - "Song of the Fairies" & "Voices," poems in the Dublin University Review (March)
• 1886  - Mosada, verse play
• 1888  - Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
• 1889  - Crossways^[1]
• 1889  - The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, includes "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child" and "Down by the Salley Gardens"

1890s

• 1890  - "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", poem first published in the National Observer, 13 December; poem included in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892
• 1890  - Irish Fairies in The Leisure Hour^[2]
• 1891  - Representative Irish Tales
• 1891  - John Sherman and Dhoya, two stories
• 1892  - Irish Fairy Tales
• 1892  - The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, includes "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (see 1890, above) (Lyrics from this book appear in Yeats' collected editions in a section titled "The Rose" [1893] but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose")
• 1893  - The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
• 1893  - The Rose, poems
• 1893  - , co-written with Edwin Ellis
• 1894  - The Land of Heart's Desire, published in April, his first acted play, performed 29 March
• 1895  - Poems, verse and drama; the first edition of his collected poems. Containing: The Countess Cathleen, The Land of Heart's Desire, The Wanderings of Usheen and the poetry collections The Rose, Crossways
• 1895  - Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, an anthology
• 1897  - The Tables of the Law. The Adoration of the Magi, privately printed; The Tables of the Law first published in The Savoy, November 1896; a regular edition of this book appeared in 1904
• 1897  - The Secret Rose, fiction
• 1899  - The Wind Among the Reeds, including "Song of the Old Mother"

1900s

• 1900  - The Shadowy Waters, poems
• 1902  - Cathleen Ní Houlihan, play
• 1903  - Ideas of Good and Evil, nonfiction^[3]
• 1903  - In the Seven Woods, poems, includes "Adam's Curse" (Dun Emer Press)
• 1903  - Where There is Nothing, play
• 1903  - The Hour Glass, play, copyright edition (see also 1904 edition)
• 1904  - The Hour-Glass; Cathleen ni Houlihan; The Pot of Broth, plays
• 1904  - The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand
• 1904  - The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi, a privately printed edition appeared in 1897
• 1905  - Stories of Red Hanrahan, published in 1905 by the Dun Emer Press, although the book states the year of publication was 1904; contains stories from The Secret Rose (1897) rewritten with Lady Gregory; another edition was published in 1927
• 1906  - Poems, 1899  - 1905, verse and plays
• 1907  - Deirdre
• 1907  - Discoveries, nonfiction

1910s

• 1910  - The Green Helmet and Other Poems, verse and plays
• 1910  - Poems: Second Series
• 1911  - Synge and the Ireland of his Time, nonfiction
• 1912  - The Cutting of an Agate
• 1912  - Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany
• 1912  - A Coat
• 1913  - Poems Written in Discouragement
• 1916  - Responsibilities, and Other Poems
• 1916  - Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, nonfiction
• 1916  - Easter 1916
• 1917  - The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, a significantly revised edition appeared in 1919
• 1918  - Per Amica Silentia Lunae
• 1918  - In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
• 1918  - The Leaders of the Crowd
• 1919  - Two Plays for Dancers, plays; became part of Four Plays for Dancers, published in 1921
• 1919  - The Wild Swans at Coole, significant revision of the 1917 edition: has the poems from the 1917 edition and others, including "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and "The Phases of the Moon"; contains: "The Wild Swans at Coole", "Ego Dominus Tuus", "The Scholars" and "On being asked for a War Poem"

1920s

• 1920  - "The Second Coming"
• 1921  - Michael Robartes and the Dancer, poems; published in February, although book itself states "1920"
• 1921  - Four Plays for Dancers, plays; includes contents of Two Plays for Dancers, published in 1919, together with At the Hawk's Well and Calvary
• 1921  - Four Years
• 1922  - Later Poems
• 1922  - The Player Queen, play
• 1922  - Plays in Prose and Verse, plays
• 1922  - The Trembling of the Veil
• 1922  - Seven Poems and a Fragment
• 1923  - Plays and Controversies
• 1924  - The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, poems and drama
• 1924  - Essays
• 1925  - The Bounty of Sweden^[4]
• 1925  - A Vision A, nonfiction, a much revised edition appeared in 1937, and a final revised edition was published in 1956
• 1926  - Estrangement
• 1926  - Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats, nonfiction; see also, Autobiography 1938
• 1927  - October Blast
• 1927  - Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction
• 1927  - The Resurrection, a short play first performed in 1934
• 1928  - The Tower, includes "Sailing to Byzantium"
• 1928  - The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary, poems
• 1928  - Sophocles' King Oedipus: a version for the modern stage
• 1929  - A Packet for Ezra Pound, poems
• 1929  - The Winding Stair published by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, now exceedingly rare

1930s

• 1932  - Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems
• 1933  - Collected Poems
• 1933  - The Winding Stair and Other Poems
• 1934  - Collected Plays
• 1934  - The King of the Great Clock Tower, poems
• 1934  - Wheels and Butterflies, drama
• 1934  - The Words Upon the Window Pane, drama
• 1935  - Dramatis Personae
• 1935  - A Full Moon in March, poems
• 1937  - A Vision B, nonfiction, a much revised edition of the original, which appeared in 1925; reissued with minor changes in 1956, and with further changes in 1962
• 1937  - Essays 1931 to 1936
• 1937Broadsides: New Irish & English Songs, edited by Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley^[5]
• 1938  - Autobiography, includes Reveries over Childhood and Youth (published in 1914), The Trembling of the Veil (1922), Dramatis Personae (1935), The Death of Synge (1928), and other pieces; see also Autobiographies (1926)
• 1938  - The Herne's Egg, drama
• 1938  - The Ten Principal Upanishads
• 1938  - New Poems
• 1939  - Last Poems and Two Plays poems and drama (posthumous)
• 1939  - On the Boiler, essays, poems and a play (posthumous)

External links

• • Complete works at Archive.org
• Poetry Foundation web page with an extensive Yeats bibliography
• A Collection of Writing

Notes and References

1. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Definitive Edition, With the Author's Final Revisions. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York, NY 1956
2. News: WB Yeats on fairies: 'At Howth, a great colony of otherworld creatures travel nightly'. .
3. Review of Ideas of Good and Evil by W. B. Yeats. The Athenaeum. 3948. June 27, 1903. 807–808.
4. Book: Foster, R. F. . W. B. Yeats: A Life II . Oxford University Press. 2005-03-17 . 978-0-19-158425-1 . 247.
5. Book: Broadsides: New Irish & English Songs . W. B. . Yeats . Dorothy . Wellesley . Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington . 1937 . December 1972 . . 978-0716513841 . 10 May 2016 . registration .