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Principal Works

*all are poetry unless otherwise noted

Mosada: A Dramatic Poem. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1886.

The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. London: Kegan Paul, 1889.

John Sherman and Dhoya (novel and story). London: Unwin, 1891.

The Countess Cathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics. London: Unwin, 1892. Contains "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "When You Are Old," and "Who Goes with Fergus?"

The Celtic Twilight (stories). London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893.

The Land of Heart's Desire (verse drama). London: Unwin, 1894.

Poems. London: Unwin, 1895.

The Secret Rose (stories). London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897.

The Wind Among the Reeds. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899.

The Shadowy Waters (verse drama). London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1900.

Cathleen ni Houlihan (verse drama). London: Bullen, 1902.

Where There Is Nothing (play). New York: John Lane, 1902.

Ideas of Good and Evil (essays). London: Bullen, 1903.

In the Seven Woods. Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1903.

The Hour-Glass: A Morality (play). London: Heinemann, 1903.

The Hour-Glass and Other Plays. London and New York: Macmillan, 1904.

The King's Threshold and On Baile's Strand (verse dramas). London: Bullen, 1904.

Stories of Red Hanrahan (stories). Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1905.

Poems 1899-1905. London: Bullen; Dublin: Maunsel, 1906.

The Poetical Works. 2 vol. New York and London: Macmillan, 1906-07.

Deirdre (verse drama). London: Bullen; Dublin: Maunsel, 1907.

Discoveries: A Volume of Essays. Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1907.

The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays (with Lady Gregory). New York: Macmillan, 1908.

The Golden Helmet (story). New York: John Quinn, 1908.

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose. 8 vol. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1908.

The Green Helmet and Other Poems. Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1910.

Synge and The Ireland of His Time (essay). Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1911.

The Cutting of an Agate (essay). New York: Macmillan, 1912.

Poems Written in Discouragement 1912-1913. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1913.

Responsibilities: Poems and a Play. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1914. Contains "The Magi."

Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (autobiography). Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1915.

Responsibilities and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1916.

The Wild Swans at Coole. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1917. Enlarged ed., London: Macmillan, 1919.

Per Amica Silentia Lunae (essays). London: Macmillan, 1918.

Two Plays for Dancers. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1919.

Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1921. Contains "The Second Coming."

Four Plays for Dancers. London: Macmillan, 1921.

The Trembling of the Veil (autobiography). London: Laurie, 1922.

Later Poems. London: Macmillan, 1922.

Plays in Prose and Verse, Written for an Irish Theatre (with Lady Gregory). London: Macmillan, 1922.

The Player Queen (play). London: Macmillan, 1922.

Plays and Controversies (essays and plays). London: Macmillan, 1923.

Essays. London: Macmillan, 1924.

The Cat and the Moon (poems and play). Dublin: Cuala Press, 1924. Contains "Leda and the Swan."

The Bounty of Sweden (Nobel lecture). Dublin: Cuala Press, 1924.

Early Poems and Stories. London: Macmillan, 1925.

A Vision (prose). London: Laurie, 1925.

October Blast. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1927. Contains "Sailing to Byzantium."

The Tower. London: Macmillan, 1928.

Sophocles' King Oedipus: A Version for the Modern Stage. London: Macmillan, 1928.

The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1928.

A Packet for Ezra Pound (essay). Dublin: Cuala Press, 1929.

The Winding Stair. New York: Fountain Press, 1929.

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1932.

The Winding Stair and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1933. Contains "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop."

The Collected Poems. New York: Macmillan, 1933.

Letters to the New Island (essays). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.

The Words Upon the Window-Pane (play). Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934.

Wheels and Butterflies (plays). London: Macmillan, 1934.

The Collected Plays. London: Macmillan, 1934.

The King of the Great Clock Tower (verse drama). Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934.

A Full Moon in March (plays and poems). London: Macmillan, 1935.

Dramatis Personae (autobiography). Dublin: Cuala Press, 1935.

Poems. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1935.

Nine One-Act Plays. London: Macmillan, 1937.

Essays, 1931 to 1936. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1937.

The Herne's Egg: A Stage Play. London: Macmillan, 1938.

New Poems. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1938.

Last Poems and Two Plays. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1939.

On the Boiler (essays). Dublin: Cuala Press, 1939.

Last Poems and Plays. London: Macmillan, 1940. Contains "Long-Legged Fly."

If I Were Four-and-Twenty (essay). Dublin: Cuala Press, 1940.

Poems: Definitive Edition. 2 vol. London: Macmillan, 1949.

The Collected Plays. London: Macmillan, 1952.

The Variorum Edition of the Poems. Ed. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. New York: Macmillan, 1957.

Mythologies (stories and assorted prose). New York: Macmillan, 1959.

Essays and Introductions. New York: Macmillan, 1961.

Explorations (essays). New York: Macmillan, 1962.

The Variorum Edition of the Plays. Ed. Russell K. Alspach. London and New York: Macmillan, 1966.

Uncollected Prose. 2 vol. Ed. John P. Frayne. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

Memoirs: Autobiography. Ed. Denis Donoghue. London: Macmillan, 1972.

The Collected Poems. Revised 2nd ed. Ed. Richard Finneran. New York: Macmillan, 1989.

The Collected Works. 14 vol., ongoing. Richard Finneran and George Mills Harper, general eds. New York: Macmillan, 1989- .

Under the Moon: The Unpublished Early Poetry. Ed. George Bornstein. New York: Scribner, 1995.

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Biography

Keith Alldritt. W. B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1997.

Richard Ellmann. Yeats: The Man and the Masks. New York: Macmillan, 1948.

R. F. Foster. W. B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. 1: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Joseph Hone. W. B. Yeats 1865-1939. New York: Macmillan, 1943.

A. Norman Jeffares. W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949.

----------. W. B. Yeats: A New Biography. London: Arena, 1990.

William Michael Murphy. Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives. Syracuse University Press, 1995.

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Selected Criticism

Richard Ellmann. The Identity of Yeats. London: Faber & Faber, 1954.

T. R. Henn. The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats. London: Methuen, 1950.

Gloria C. Kline. The Last Courtly Lover: Yeats and the Idea of Woman. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.

M. L. Rosenthal. Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Jon Stallworthy. Between the Lines: Yeats's Poetry in the Making. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.

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