W. B. Yeats bibliography
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 foremost 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
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[1]
- 1891 – Representative Irish Tales
- 1891 – John Sherman and Dhoya, two stories[2]
- 1892 – Irish Faerie Tales
- 1892 – The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, includes "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (see 1890, above)[1] (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[1]
- 1893 – The Rose, poems[1]
- 1894 – The Land of Heart's Desire, published in April, his first acted play, performed 29 March[1]
- 1895 – Poems, verse and drama; the first edition of his collected poems[1]
- 1895 – Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, an anthology[1]
- 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[1]
- 1897 – The Secret Rose, fiction[1]
- 1899 – Crossways
- 1899 – The Wind Among the Reeds, including "Song of the Old Mother"
1900s
- 1900 – The Shadowy Waters, poems[1]
- 1902 – Cathleen Ní Houlihan, play[1]
- 1903 – Ideas of Good and Evil, nonfiction[1]
- 1903 – In the Seven Woods, poems,[1] includes "Adam's Curse" (Dun Emer Press)
- 1903 – Where There is Nothing, play[1]
- 1903 – The Hour Glass, play, copyright edition (see also 1904 edition)[1]
- 1904 – The Hour-Glass; Cathleen ni Houlihan; The Pot of Broth, plays[1]
- 1904 – The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand[1]
- 1904 – The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi, a privately printed edition appeared in 1897[1]
- 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[1]
- 1906 – Poems, 1899 –1905, verse and plays[1]
- 1907 – Deirdre[1]
- 1907 – Discoveries, nonfiction[1]
1910s
- 1910 – The Green Helmet and Other Poems, verse and plays[1]
- 1910 – Poems: Second Series[1]
- 1911 – Synge and the Ireland of his Time, nonfiction[1]
- 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[1]
- 1916 – Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, nonfiction[1]
- 1916 – Easter 1916[1]
- 1919 – The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, a significantly revised edition appeared in 1919[1]
- 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[1]
- 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"[1]
1920s
- 1920 – The Second Coming
- 1921 – Michael Robartes and the Dancer, poems; published in February, although book itself states "1920" [1]
- 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 [1]
- 1921 – Four Years
- 1922 – Later Poems [1]
- 1922 – The Player Queen, play [1]
- 1922 – Plays in Prose and Verse, plays [1]
- 1922 – The Trembling of the Veil [1]
- 1922 – Seven Poems and a Fragment [3]
- 1923 – Plays and Controversies [1]
- 1924 – The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, poems and drama [1]
- 1924 – Essays [1]
- 1925 – A Vision A, nonfiction, a much revised edition appeared in 1937, and a final revised edition was published in 1956 [1]
- 1926 – Estrangement
- 1926 – Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats, nonfiction; see also, Autobiography 1938 [1]
- 1927 – October Blast [1]
- 1927 – Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction [1]
- 1927 – The Resurrection, a short play first performed in 1934
- 1928 – The Tower, includes Sailing to Byzantium [1]
- 1928 – The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary, poems [1]
- 1929 – A Packet for Ezra Pound, poems [1]
- 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[1]
- 1933 – Collected Poems[1]
- 1933 – The Winding Stair and Other Poems[1]
- 1934 – Collected Plays[1]
- 1934 – The King of the Great Clock Tower, poems[1]
- 1934 – Wheels and Butterflies, drama[1]
- 1934 – The Words Upon the Window Pane, drama[1]
- 1935 – Dramatis Personae[1]
- 1935 – A Full Moon in March, poems[1]
- 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[1]
- 1937 – Essays 1931 to 1936[1]
- 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)[1]
- 1938 – The Herne's Egg, drama[1]
- 1938 – New Poems[1]
- 1939 – Last Poems and Two Plays poems and drama (posthumous)[1]
- 1939 – On the Boiler, essays, poems and a play (posthumous)[1]
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