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)

Poetry

Individual poems

Index of Titles
Index of First Lines

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 (1920)
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)

Drama

Individual plays

The Island of Statues (1885)
Mosada (1886)
The Countess Cathleen (1892)
The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
The Shadowy Waters (1900)
Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
On Baile's Strand (1903)
Where There is Nothing... (1903)
The Hour-Glass (1904)
The King's Threshold (1904)
The Pot of Broth (1904)
Deirdre (1907)
The Green Helmet (1912)
At the Hawk's Well (1916)
Calvary (1921)
The Player Queen (1922)
The Cat and the Moon (1924)
Sophocles' King Oedipus, a version for the modern stage (1928)
The Resurrection (1931)
The Words upon the Window Pane (1934)
- A Full Moon in March
- The King of the Great Clock Tower (1934)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030 due to Renewal R292749
The Herne's Egg (1938)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2034 due to Renewal R378184
Purgatory (1938)

Collections of plays

The Unicorn From the Stars, and other plays, with Lady Gregory (1908)
Four Plays for Dancers (1921) (external scan)
Plays in Prose and Verse (1922)
Plays and Controversies (1924) (external scan)
Plays in Prose and Verse (Revised Edition) (1924)
The Herne's Egg, and other plays (1938)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2033 due to Renewal R375210
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)

As editor

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) (transcription project)
The works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic and critical, edited with Edwin John Ellis (1893)
Irish Fairy Tales (1892) (transcription project)
Twenty-One poems by Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1907)

Other

Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) (non-fiction)
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)
"Yeats, William Butler," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
"Yeats, William Butler," in Thom's Irish Who's Who (p. 265), Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co. (1923)
A Catalogue of English and American First Editions of William Butler Yeats (1939), by William Matson Roth (external scan)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1931.

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 86 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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