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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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[2]
- 1890 – Irish Fairies in The Leisure Hour[3]
- 1891 – Representative Irish Tales
- 1891 – John Sherman and Dhoya, two stories[4]
- 1892 – Irish Fairy Tales
- 1892 – The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, includes "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (see 1890, above)[2] (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[2]
- 1893 – The Rose, poems[2]
- 1893 – The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical, co-written with Edwin Ellis
- 1894 – The Land of Heart's Desire, published in April, his first acted play, performed 29 March[2]
- 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[2]
- 1895 – Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, an anthology[2]
- 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[2]
- 1897 – The Secret Rose, fiction[2]
- 1899 – The Wind Among the Reeds, including "Song of the Old Mother"
1900s edit
- 1900 – The Shadowy Waters, poems[2]
- 1902 – Cathleen Ní Houlihan, play[2]
- 1903 – Ideas of Good and Evil, nonfiction[2][5]
- 1903 – In the Seven Woods, poems,[2] includes "Adam's Curse" (Dun Emer Press)
- 1903 – Where There is Nothing, play[2]
- 1903 – The Hour Glass, play, copyright edition (see also 1904 edition)[2]
- 1904 – The Hour-Glass; Cathleen ni Houlihan; The Pot of Broth, plays[2]
- 1904 – The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand[2]
- 1904 – The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi, a privately printed edition appeared in 1897[2]
- 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[2]
- 1906 – Poems, 1899 –1905, verse and plays[2]
- 1907 – Deirdre[2]
- 1907 – Discoveries, nonfiction[2]
1910s edit
- 1910 – The Green Helmet and Other Poems, verse and plays[2]
- 1910 – Poems: Second Series[2]
- 1911 – Synge and the Ireland of his Time, nonfiction[2]
- 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[2]
- 1916 – Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, nonfiction[2]
- 1916 – Easter 1916[2]
- 1917 – The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, a significantly revised edition appeared in 1919[2]
- 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[2]
- 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"[2]
1920s edit
- 1920 – "The Second Coming"
- 1921 – Michael Robartes and the Dancer, poems; published in February, although book itself states "1920"[2]
- 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[2]
- 1921 – Four Years
- 1922 – Later Poems[2]
- 1922 – The Player Queen, play[2]
- 1922 – Plays in Prose and Verse, plays[2]
- 1922 – The Trembling of the Veil[2]
- 1922 – Seven Poems and a Fragment[6]
- 1923 – Plays and Controversies[2]
- 1924 – The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, poems and drama[2]
- 1924 – Essays[2]
- 1925 – The Bounty of Sweden[7]
- 1925 – A Vision A, nonfiction, a much revised edition appeared in 1937, and a final revised edition was published in 1956[2]
- 1926 – Estrangement
- 1926 – Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats, nonfiction; see also, Autobiography 1938[2]
- 1927 – October Blast[2]
- 1927 – Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction[2]
- 1927 – The Resurrection, a short play first performed in 1934
- 1928 – The Tower, includes "Sailing to Byzantium"[2]
- 1928 – The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary, poems[2]
- 1928 – Sophocles' King Oedipus: a version for the modern stage
- 1929 – A Packet for Ezra Pound, poems[2]
- 1929 – The Winding Stair published by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, now exceedingly rare
1930s edit
- 1932 – Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems[2]
- 1933 – Collected Poems[2]
- 1933 – The Winding Stair and Other Poems[2]
- 1934 – Collected Plays[2]
- 1934 – The King of the Great Clock Tower, poems[2]
- 1934 – Wheels and Butterflies, drama[2]
- 1934 – The Words Upon the Window Pane, drama[2]
- 1935 – Dramatis Personae[2]
- 1935 – A Full Moon in March, poems[2]
- 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[2]
- 1937 – Essays 1931 to 1936[2]
- 1937 – Broadsides: New Irish & English Songs, edited by Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley[8]
- 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)[2]
- 1938 – The Herne's Egg, drama[2]
- 1938 – The Ten Principal Upanishads
- 1938 – New Poems[2]
- 1939 – Last Poems and Two Plays poems and drama (posthumous)[2]
- 1939 – On the Boiler, essays, poems and a play (posthumous)[2]
Notes edit
- ^ The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Definitive Edition, With the Author's Final Revisions. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York, NY 1956
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk Michael Cox, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ "WB Yeats on fairies: 'At Howth, a great colony of otherworld creatures travel nightly'". The Irish Times.
- ^ Harper, Margaret Mills, book review of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, vol. 12: John Sherman and Dhoya, in Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1993, retrieved January 18, 2009
- ^ "Review of Ideas of Good and Evil by W. B. Yeats". The Athenaeum (3948): 807–808. 27 June 1903.
- ^ Additional work found on Project Gutenberg
- ^ Foster, R. F. (17 March 2005). W. B. Yeats: A Life II. Oxford University Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-19-158425-1.
- ^ Yeats, W. B.; Wellesley, Dorothy, eds. (December 1972) [1937]. Broadsides: New Irish & English Songs. Irish University Press. ISBN 978-0716513841. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
External links edit
- Works by William Butler Yeats at Project Gutenberg
- Complete works at Archive.org
- Poetry Foundation web page with an extensive Yeats bibliography
- A Collection of Writing