William Butler Yeats: Life

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Life

1865-86: b. 10.40 p.m., 13 June 1865, 1 George’s Ville [a semi-detached house, later 5, Sandymount Ave.], Dublin; son of John Butler Yeats, a lawyer turned painter and Susan Mary Yeats [née Pollexfen; d. 3 Jan. 1900], and gs. of ‘Parson John’ rector of Co. Down and Drumcliff, Sligo, in lineal descent from Jervis Yeats, a Williamite soldier who succeeded as a linen merchant and whose gs. Benjamin married a Mary Butler, bringing 560 acres in Co. Kildare into the family [see infra]; passed early childhood in Sligo (‘I have walked upon Sindbad’s yellow shore and never shall another’s hit my fancy’; Autobiog.); family moves to London, 1867-72 in pursuit of his father’s ambition to become a painter, living first at 23 Fitzroy Rd., nr. Regent’s Park, then 14 Edith Villas, West Kensington, in 1874, and after 8 Woodstock Rd., Bedford Park, in 1876; returns to Sligo, 1872-74, travelling on the Sligo or the Liverpool, ships of the Pollexfen line; still unable to read at seven; back in London, 1874-81, ed. at Godolphin Sch., Iffley, Rd., Hammersmith, 1877-81; with his father saw Irving play Hamlet and affected the actor’s way of walking, 1879; family holiday in Devon, 1879; returns to Dublin on exhausion of father’s income from Kildare property, living at Balscadden Cottage, Howth and villa in Rathgar [‘a time of crowding & indignity’]; attends Erasmus Smith High School, Harcourt St., Dublin, Oct. 1881-Dec. 1883, under headship of William Wilkins; family moves to Island View, overlooking Howth Harbour, 1881; attends Metropolitan College of Art, May 1884-July 1885; enamoured of Laura Armstrong, a cousin who acts in his ‘Vivien and Time’, plays in the home of Judge Wright in Howth, betweeen 1882 and 1884 (when she became married); meets AE (George Russell) at College of Art; writes “Love and Death”, a drawing-room play, April 1884; shown A. P. Sinnett’s Esoteric Buddhism (1884) by Charles Johnston [but see under Johnston, Rx]; family moves to 10 Ashfield Tce., nr. Harold’s Cross, 1884; “Island of Statues” (Aug. 1884); two short lyrics printed in Dublin University Review (March 1885); forms Dublin Hermetic Society in York St. with Johnston, Claude Wright, and Charles Weekes, et al., 16 June, 1885, WBY chairing the first meeting, which is noticed in Dublin University Review (1 July 1885); joins Contemporary Club, fnd. by Charles Hubert Oldham in 1885; meets Douglas Hyde, Katharine Tynan and John O’Leary, 1885; reads Standish James O’Grady, James Clarence Mangan, and Samuel Ferguson; commences The Shadowy Waters (1900), 1885, to be started over in 1894; attends his first séance; arrival of Brahmin Mohini Chatterjee to help fnd. Dublin Theosophical Lodge, 1885-early 1886 (‘We ourselves are nothing but a mirror [...] deliverance consists in turning the mirror away so it reflects nothing’); publishes “The Seeker” (Dublin University Review, 1 Sept. 1885, pp.120-23); moves to Royal Hibernian Academy School, early 1886; publishes Mosada: A Dramatic Poem (1886), a pamphlet ‘play’ written for Laura Armstrong in 1885, in which a Moorish enchantress is burned on the unwitting orders of her childhood sweetheart; publishes essay on ‘The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson’, in Irish Fireside (9 Oct. 1886), to be reprinted in Dublin University Review (Nov. 1886), inaugurating his attacks on Dowden; “The Stolen Child” appears in Irish Monthly (Dec. 1886);
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1887-91: writes The Wanderings of Oisin, originally as Usheen, between 1886 and 1888, and completed in its easliest version in Nov. 1887; based on Michael Comyn’s poem “The Lay of Oisin in the Land of Youth” in O’Looney’s translation for the Transactions of the Ossianic Society, 1854-63, with influence from Tennyson’s “Voyage of Maeldune”, &c.; returns to London with his parents, living at 58 Eardley Crescent, Earls Court, 1887; his mother suffers first of her strokes, 1887; first meeting with MacGregor Mathers (bapt. Samuel Liddle Mathers), who he used as a model for Michael Robartes’, 1887; W. B. visits Morris at Kelmscott House; joins Esoteric Section of Theosophistical Society (London Lodge); member of The Rhymers’ Club, with Lionel Johnson, Ernest Rhys, and others incl. John Davdison; moves with family to 3 Blenheim Rd., also nr. Bedford Pk., 1888; John Butler Yeats’s property in Ireland sold under Ashbourne Act, 1888; WBY first attends the Southwark Irish Literary Club, March 1888; commences publishing in the Providence Journal and Boston Pilot through O’Leary’s Fenian connections [‘Your Celt has written the greater bulk of his letters from the capital of the enemy’]; meets Oscar Wilde at home of William Ernest Henley, ed. of Scots Observer, Sept. 1888; joins esoteric section of Theosophical Society in London, ‘about Xmas 1888’ by his own account, making oath of obedience and belief to Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in spite of criticisms of the Psychical Research in 1884; invited to visit Wilde’s home at Tite St. on Christmas Day, when Wilde reads from the MS of “The Decay of Lying” after a turkey dinner; informed by Wilde that literary gossip was not a job for a gentleman; meets John Todhunter, York Powell, John Nettleship, and Edwin Ellis; does copying work in British Museum and Bodleian libraries for David Nutt; lectures on “Sligo Fairies”; with T. W. Rolleston, Douglas Hyde, Katharine Tynan, John Todhunter, George Sigerson, et. al., produces Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland (1888), under guidance of John O’Leary; ed., Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888), as well as Stories from Carleton (1889), the latter two for Walter Scott; publishes The Wanderings of Oisin (Jan. 1889), with help of subscriptions raised by John O’Leary, only to meet with disappointing sales; meets Maud Gonne, 30 Jan. 1889 (‘the troubling of my life began’), sent to the WBY’s home in London by John O’Leary; joins the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and initiated 7 March 1890, adopting name of ‘DEDI’ [Demon est Deus Inversus]; secures Maud Gonne’s membership and initiation also; writes doggerel verses for Tract Society cards; composes “Lake Island of Inisfree” about an island on Lough Gill (actually called Iniscrewin), London 1890, under circumstances narrated in the novella John Sherman; collaborates with Edwin J. Ellis during 1889-1893 on edition of The Poems of William Blake, 3 vols. (1893), erroneously calling Blake Irish through a supposed Irish grandfather (Cornelious O’Neal) in the introduction; sees Florence Emery Farr (d.1917) at Bedford Park Playhouse, London; gives paper to Theosophical Society on “Theosophy and Modern Culture”, Aug. 1890; asked to resign from esoteric section of the Theosophical Society by Madame Blavatsky’s secretary, Nov. 1890; forms Rhymers’ Club with Ernest Rhys and others, generally meeting at the Cheshire Cheese; studies Kabbala, Swedenborg, and Boehme; proposes marriage to Maud, only to be refused, at Howth, Aug. 1891; attends inaugural meeting of Young Ireland League, intended to unite Irish literary societies, with John O’Leary, Sept. 1891; edits an anthology of Irish novelists as Representative Irish Tales [No. 10 in Unwin’s Pseudonym Library] (1891); publishes John Sherman and Dhoya (both 1891), as pseud. ‘Ganconagh’ [meaning ‘love-talker’ - as explained in ‘Irish Fairies, Ghosts, Witches, &c.’, article in Lucifer, 15 Jan. 1889];
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1892-94: staying at 3 Ely Place with Hermetic Group of Theosophists formed around George Russell, with D. N. Dunlop, Ferderick Dick and the illustrator Althea Gyles (discovered by Dick); fnd. Irish Literary Society in London, Dec. 1891-Jan. 1892, superseding Southwark Literary Society, with T. W. Rolleston as Secretary, Charles Gavan Duffy as President, and Stopford Brooke as Vice-President; horrifies older membership by criticising poetry of Davis in public; proposes publishing series of books to begin with a biography of Tone by Rolleston, and a consecutive history of Ireland in ballads, edited by WBY, with a life of Sarsfield by Lady Wilde, and a work on Irish education by Lionel Johnson, July 1892 (Wade, ed., Letters, p.212); appeals to Richard Garnett, then reader for Unwin, over differences with C. G. Duffy; sends letter forecasting ruin of Irish Library project to Freeman’s Journal (6 Sept. 1892); invited by W. E. Henley to contribute to National Observer, resulting in publication of eight stories, 1892-94; proposes again to Maud Gonne, who returns to France; meets her arriving in Dublin in same ship as Parnell’s coffin; writes poem on Parnell; publishes fiction in The New Review, The Sketch, The Savoy, The Pageant, The Speaker, and The Weekly Sun, 1892-1896; Elkin Mathew publishes of Book of the Rhymers’ Club (1892); fnd. National Literary Society in Dublin, with John T. O’Kelly (who announced the plans in the United Irishman), John O’Leary and others, modelled on Young Ireland League, with inaugural meeting at the Rotunda, 24 May 1892; publishes The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892), the former a verse play (orig. written as “Countess Kathleen O’Shea” ) intended to convince Maud Gonne that he could write for a general audience; final version incl. a scene which ‘should have the effect of a missal painting’ acc. stage-directions; ed. Irish Fairy Tales (1892); est. library service of Irish National Literary Society, June [var. Sept.] 1892, Maud Gonne travelling to establish branches; “Fergus and the Druid” printed in National Observer, May 1892; writes letter to United Ireland (14 May 1892) rebuking Irish public for not buying books; admitted to Second Order of the Golden Dawn, 1892; contests ‘necessity for de-anglicising Ireland’ by use of Irish language of the new literature as proposed by Hyde, in letter to United Ireland (17 Dec. 1892); publishes edition of Blake with Edwin Ellis (2 vols., 1893); edits The Celtic Twilight (1893), a collection of tales and sketches about of leprechauns, tramps and ghostly visitations; lectures on “Nationality and Literature” to the National Literary Society, 19 May 1893, comparing the evolution of national literature to that of a tree, epic, ballad, and lyric corresponding to stages of national life; visits Belfast and lectures to Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club on ‘the consoling faith’ of “Irish Fairy Lore”, 21 Nov. 1893; visits Paris, accompanied by Maud Gonne, Feb. 1894; stays with MacGregor Mathers, and proposes to Gonne again; meets Verlaine and attends performance of Villiers de l’Isle Adams’s Axël, with Gonne, 26 Feb., 1894; Second Book of the Rhymers’ Club (1894); meets Mrs. Olivia Shakespear, a cousin of Lionel Johnson; his play, The Land of Heart’s Desire, produced in at Avenue Theatre, London, 29 March & 14 April 1894 [var. running six weeks], under management of Florence Farr who appeared in it with Dorothy Paget; playbill by Beardsley; viewed by Oscar Wilde and George Moore; stays in Sligo with his cousin George Pollexfen and revises Countless Kathleen there while experimenting with symbols, Nov. 1894-May 1895; visits Gore-Booths at Lissadell, 1894, and enjoys himself ‘telling stories - old Irish stories’ to the girls;
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1895-97: writes letter to Dublin Daily Express [var. Telegraph] (27 Feb. 1895), listing 100 ‘best Irish books’ on the lines of a previous list that appeared in The Freeman’s Journal in 1885 (pamph. 1886); answered by D. F. Hannigan with an alternative list excluding Standish James O’Grady; rejects ‘Irishness’ of Ussher, Berkeley, Swift, and Sterne in letter during exchanges with Dowden in Dublin Daily Express (8 March 1895); contributes further list of ‘The Thirty Best Irish Books’ to United Ireland (16 March, 1895); substantially revised Wanderings of Oiseen, 1895; issues collected, expanded, and revised Poems (1895); enters affair with Olivia Shakespear, 1896-97; contribs. four articles on Irish literature monthly to The Bookman (July-Oct. 1895), the last including a list of 40 Irish titles; edits A Book of Irish Verse (March 1895), with an introduction criticising sentimental patriotism associated with Duffy’s view of Irish literature and Anglo-Irish hostility to Irish culture epitomised by TCD; worsening relations with Dowden and Mahaffy; shares rooms with Arthur Symons at Fountain Court, Temple, London, 1895-96; issues the essay “The Moods” (1895), professing that all strong emotions were actually eternal messengers or gods (Essays and Introductions, p.195); attends New Lyric Club Dinner, 22 Jan. 1896; moves to 18 Woburn Buildings (later 15 Woburn Walk), 1896; visits Paris and sees Jarry’s Ubi Roi; meets Synge, and tours West of Ireland with Symons, staying at Edward Martyn’s house, Tulira [var. Tullyra] Castle where a ‘vision of Diana’ comes to provide ‘the chief source of [his] inspiration’ (Autobiog. p.371); meets Lady Gregory there and receives his first invitation to Coole Park, in south Co. Galway; visits Aran Islands on two fishing trips, being much impressed by folk and fairy tales narrated to him; plots a novel to be set on Aran and in Paris; involved with Maud Gonne in 1798 commemoration commitee-work and elected President of Commemorative Association of Great Britain and France, 1897; rides ‘in a wagonette’ with Maud Gonne to public meetings; opening event in Dublin on sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victoria’s accession marked by serious riots, 22 June 1897; re-encounters Lady Gregory in London, 1896; becomes involved with George Russell, Maud Gonne, McGregor Mathers and others, in establishing an Order of Celtic Mysteries to be centred on a ‘Castle of Heroes’ on Lough Key, Co. Roscommon, 1896-1902; travels to Paris to found the Order, and there meets Synge, Dec. 1896;
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1897-1902: collects folklore with Lady Gregory on Aran, in the Burren, in Sligo and in Doneraile, Co. Cork, as well as at Coole, 1896-mid 1898; first visit to Coole Park (‘my home for nearly forty years’; Wade, ed., Letters, p.799), where he collects folklore with Lady Gregory, 1897; there attempts to complete The Speckled Bird, his novel contracted at rate of �2 p.w. in advance from Lawrence & A. H. Bullen; first draft 1896; worked on intermittently, 1897-1902; main chars. based on WBY’s father, Maud Gonne, MacGregor Mathers and Olivia Shakespear; abandons it at 150,000 words; accepts money from Lady Gregory to free him from journalism having written over 200 pieces for The Bookman and the Boston Pilot, et al.; plans the Irish Literary Theatre - originally styled ‘The Celtic Theatre’- with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn, first at Duras, the home and garden of the old Count Florimond de Basterot, and later at Coole Park, Oct. 1897; publishes The Secret Rose (1897), a collection of esoteric tales; alienated from nationalism by violence of Jubilee Riots, 1897; publishes The Tables of the Law (The Savoy, Nov. 1897), and reprinted in The Tables of the Law & The Adoration of the Magi (1897), both intended for The Secret Rose (1897) but excluded by Bullen; writes further esoteric fiction; accompanies Gonne on tour of Irish communities in England and Scotland; keeps an occult diary, July 1898-March 1901; invited to carve his name on the beech tree in Coole Park, summer 1898; reading anthropological writings of Frazer, Gerald Heard and Flinders Petrie; commences “Vision Notebook”, 11 July 1898, continued sporadically to March 1901; contribs. to the Celtic Congress, 1901 (as reported in Celtia); writes letter to Freeman’s Journal (13 Nov. 1901) affirming role of artist as ‘principal voice of the conscience’; Gonne discloses her affair with Lucien Millevoye, resulting in a ‘spiritual marriage’ with WBY, December 1898; proposes to Gonne in Paris, and is refused, 31 Jan. 1899; issues The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), ending with the lively vernacular and somewhat earlier ballad “The Fiddler of Dooney” ; formation of the Irish Literary Theatre announced in the press under the auspices of a sub-committee of the National Literary Society, 16 Jan. 1899; writes Countess Cathleen: A Miracle Play, performed by the Irish Literary Theatre in Antient Concert Rooms, 8 May, 1899, with Florence Farr as Aleel, after assurances from Fr Thomas Finlay that there was nothing blasphemous in the play; personal target of the young Patrick Pearse’s call that the literary revival be ‘crushed’ in a letter to An Claidheamh Soluis (13 May 1899); publishes ‘Ireland Bewitched’, with Lady Gregory, in Contemporary Review (1899; Welch, eds., Writings 1993); resigns from IRB with Gonne following plot to murder Frank Hugh O’Donnell, 1900; death of Susan Yeats (WBY’s mother); writes in favour of Irish language revival ‘because the mass of the people cease to understand any poetry when they cease to understand the Irish language, which is the language of their imaginations’ (The Leader, Sept. 1900); caught up in major row in the Order of the Golden Dawn, involving Aleister Crowley (‘Brother Perdurabo’) and the battle of Blythe Rd., and leading to expulsion of Mathers, April 1900, but continues as a member until 1923; inaugurates Irish Literary Theatre at a meeting of the National Literary Society, January 1899; launches Beltaine, journal of the Irish Theatre, May 1899 (3 issues, 1899-1900);
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1900-03: publishes in first issue thereof a defence of The Countess Cathleen and its symbolism; witnesses the Fay brothers’ production of Alice Milligan’s Red Hugh and acknowledges the possibility of using the Dublin accent for Irish drama; proposes marriage to Gonne and is again refused; lectures on psalteries with Florence Farr; writes to Dublin Daily Express (3 April 1900), stating that anyone who cheers Queen Victoria on her visit to Dublin would do dishonour to Ireland; collaborates with Moore on Diarmuid and Grania set to music by Elgar, resulting in estrangement; the play performed, 21 Oct. 1901 (pub. 1951); launches Samhain, early 1901 (7 issues, 1901-06, and 1908; to be followed by The Arrow, 1906-07, and 1909); Maud Gonne appears in title role of his play Cathleen ni Houlihan at St. Teresa’s Abstinence Association Hall, Clarendon St. (2, 3, & 4 April 1902); reading Nietzsche helps him ‘greatly to build up in [his] mind an imagination of the heroic life’, 1902; joins Moore and Douglas Hyde in denouncing destructive excavations conducted by seekers for the Ark of the Covenant at Tara (letter to Times, 27 June 1902); becomes President of Irish National Theatre Society, Feb. 1903, based on the Fays’ Irish National Dramatic (formerly Ormonde) Society, and with Maude Gonne, George Russell and Douglas Hyde as Vice-Presidents, and W. G. Fay as stage-manager; argues for recognition of ‘that English idiom of the Irish-thinking people of the west’ as ‘the only good English spoken by any large numbers of Irish people today’ (Samhain, Oct. 1902); receives telegram before a lecture, informing him that Gonne is to marry MacBride, as she does on 21 Feb. 1903; particularly stung by her conversion to Catholicism; issues ‘Speaking to the Psaltery’, an essay based on research with Florence Farr into the use of voice-music with Arnold Dolmetsch’s 12-stringed instrument; brief affair with Farr, 1903; dissociates himself from decadent aestheticism of his earlier essay “Autumn of the Body” in letter to George Russell, 4 March 1903; talks with Gonne and re-establishes friendship, May 1903; signs protest against King’s visit to Dublin, May 1903; writes a to newspaper commenting facetiously on decoration of the king’s room at Maynooth during Edward VII’s visit (United Irishman, 1 Aug 1903); fights with Gonne and others over Synge’s Shadow of the Glen (Oct. 1903); issues Ideas of Good and Evil (1903), substituted for The Speckled Bird by agreement with Bullen; undertakes American tour arranged by John Quinn (Nov. 1903-March 1904; further American tours, 1911, 1914, 1920, and 1932); meets Ezra Pound; receives news of trouble in Gonne-MacBride marriage while in America, Nov. 1903; plans to establish Abbey Theatre with subvention form tea-heiress Annie Horniman;
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1904-09: Abbey Theatre opens, 27 December 1904 with programme with new plays by WBY and Lady Gregory (On Baile’s Strand and Spreading the News), as well as Cathleen Ni Houlihan and Synge’s In the Shadow of the Glen; acts as Abbey Manager, 1904-1910; writes short plays such as The Pot of Broth (1903) and The Hour Glass: A Morality (1903), both in 1902; also heroic plays including The King’s Threshold (8 Oct. 1903 [var. 7]; printed 1904), in Molesworth Hall, with designs by Miss Horniman; new collection of poetry, In the Seven Woods (1904), the first book to be printed by Dun Emer (later Cuala) Press, with the Caslon Old Face type used for all 78 books thereafter; revises The Secret Rose with Lady Gregory, bringing the stories ‘closer to the life of the people’, and adding ‘Red Hanrahan’ (Stories of Red Hanrahan, 1905) - later to remark, ‘if their style has any merit now, that merit is hers’; issues Poems 1899-1905 (1906); WBY, Lady Gregory, and Synge installed as Directors of the Abbey, 1906; institutes a working distinction between ‘poetic plays’ and ‘peasant drama’, Fay managing the latter; publishes Discoveries (1907), a prose collection; Deirdre premiered at the Abbey, 26 Nov. 1906 (pub. 1907), with costumes by Miss Horniman and scenery by Robert Gregory; later performed in London with Mrs. Patrick Campbell in lead, 1908; Abbey tours in Ireland and Britain with The Eloquent Dempsey, a political farce by William Boyle, Lady Gregory’s The Doctor in Spite of Himself (trans. into Kiltartanese from Molière), and WBY’s Deirdre; first performance of The Playboy of the Western World, and attendant Abbey riots, Jan. 1907 (Lady Gregory sends telegram to WBY, ‘Audience broke up at use of the word ‘shift’); travels to Italy with Lady Gregory and her son Robert, visiting Ferrara (where Duke Ercole had reigned), 1907; John Butler Yeats departs for New York, 1907; arrival of Ezra Pound in England, 1908; Dun Emer Industries becomes Cuala Industries and Press, 1908; Wade issues the first bibliography of his writings, 1908 (rep. in Variorum Edition, 1957, p.779); briefly consummated relationship with Gonne, Dec. 1908 before the ‘spiritual marriage’ is resumed (‘I am praying still that your bodily desire for me may be taken from you too’, wrote Gonne); reading through Balzac, 1908-09;
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1910-1914: Iseult Gonne speaks to WBY in terms that he takes as a marriage proposal, 1910; breach with John Quinn lasting years due to indiscreet talk about his mistress, only to be resolved in 1911; death of Synge, 1909; love-affair with Mabel Dickinson, physiotherapist (masseuse; sis. of Dublin architect and critic), 1908-1913, ending acrimoniously when she claims to be pregnant (whereon WBY consults Lady Gregory and a clairvoyant, Elizabeth Radcliffe, practitioner of automatic handwriting [which Georgie Yeats may have observed]; Collected Works in Prose and Verse in (8 vols. 1908) published by A. H. Bullen at the Shakespeare Head Press, with financial aid of Miss Horniman; new collections The Green Helmet (1910), including poems grouped as ‘Raymond Lully to his wife Pernella’ (later corrected to ‘Nicholas Flamel’), dealing with Gonne; Edmund Gosse negotiates a civil pension listing for WBY, with proviso that he is free to take part in political activity in Ireland; offence occasioned when the Gregorys receive a letter from Gosse condemning their interference in the matter, and leading to WBY chief rift with them; WBY writes long (and probably unposted) letter of self-analysis to Robert Gregory (2 Aug. 1910; quoted in Ellmann, 1948, p.179); Miss Horniman alienated by production of Shaw’s Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet (Abbey, Feb 1910) and further alienated by purportedly inadvertant failure to close Abbey following death of Edward VII (6 May 1910); WBY visits his father in New York during first Abbey American tour, 1911; peaceful first night of Playboy in Boston followed by riots in New York (‘stink pots and rosaries’); second night attended by Theodore Roosevelt; company technically arrested in Philadelphia; threats to Lady Gregory’s life in Chicago; WBY’s interest in spiritualism revives on meeting an American medium Eta Wreidt, resulting in first introduction to Leo Africanus, “guide”, talks to J. M. Synge (‘said he was happ0y but when he saw me longed to live’), and hears voice of Maud Gonne through Mrs. Wreidt’s trumpet, Feb. 1911; admitted to Theoricus Adeptus Minor in Stella Matutina (successor to Golden Dawn), 10 Jan. 1912; meets Tagore, 1912; refuses to sign assurance addressed to Ulster Unionists that Home Rule would not be sectarian; meets Miss X, whose automatic handwriting he subjects to tests, 1912-14; publishes essays on tragic drama as Cutting of the Agate (1912); writes letter to Grierson thanking him for edition of Donne, Nov. 1912; stays with Maud Gonne in Normandy, 1912; poems of appear in Poetry (Chicago), altered by Pound without permission; controversy surrounding the Hugh Lane Bequest of Impressionist paintings to the Municipal Gallery brings his disillusionment with Irish nationalism to a head, 1913; lectures on “Dreams and Ghosts” (Dublin, Nov. 1913) and mocked by The Irish Times; receives civil list pension of �150, 1913 [but see supra]; Dublin Corporation rejects Hugh Lane’s gift, 1913; Pound acts as his secretary at Ashdown Forest Pound, winters 1913-16; contribs. “Dublin Fanaticism” to Irish Worker (1 Nov. 1913), rebuking employers for using religion as a weapon in the Lock-Out Strike and nationalists for failing to protest at police brutality; issues Poems Written in Discouragement (1913); takes rooms at Stone Cottage, Ashdown Forest, with Pound as his ‘secretary’, 1913-1916; in May 1911 meets [Bertha] Georgiana Hyde-Lees (called ‘Georgie’ and ‘George’ by WBY alone), dg. of Nelly Hyde-Lees and step-daughter of Olivia Shakespear’s brother H. T. Tucker whom she married in Feb. 1911; reintroduced at Tucker’s house house in Ashdown Forest, 1913, in company with Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, George’s best friend;
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1914-16: visits America, January 1914; attends Chicago Poetry banquet; contacts ‘Leo Africanus’ through Mrs. Wreidt’s séances; resumes affair with Olivia Shakespear, 1914 (her dg. having married Pound, 14 April 1914); travels with Gonne and Dr. Everard Feilding (President of Psychical Research Society) and with Maud Gonne, to Mirabeau, nr. Poitiers, to investigate the supposed miracle of a bleeding picture of Christ - later shown to be inauthentic by Lister Institute tests on blood exuded, May 1914; publishes Responsibilities (Cuala 1914; Macmillan 1916); introduces Georgie to Stone Cottage, she being a member of a group of Rudolph Steiner Theosophists, Summer 1914; addresses audience on Thomas Davis, Antient Concert Rooms, 220 Nov. 1914, and received vote of thanks from Tom Kettle, seconded by Patrick Pearse; takes eccentric view at outbreak of World War I (‘England is paying the price for having despised intellect’); spends winter at Stone Cottage, 1914-15; addresses Thomas Davis Centenary audience with Pearse and Kettle, 20 Nov. 1914; composes “Ego Dominus Tuus” expounding ntithetical theory supplied by Leo Africanus (printed in Per Amica Silentia Lunae, 1918); refuses knighthood, 1915; death of Sir Hugh Lane in torpedoed Lusitania, May 1915; publishes Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1915; actually 1916), first part of autobiographies, written in 1914; excited by exposure to the Noh, effected by Pound who was acting as literary executor of Ernest Fenollosa; dictates his Noh play At the Hawk’s Well to Pound, Jan. 1916; performed in Lady Cunard’s drawing room March 1916; writes essay establishing connection between peasant beliefs and those of spiritualists such as Swedenborg and Henry More; first draft of Autobiographies, 1916-17 (rev. & publ. 1926); dining in London when news of the 1916 Easter Rising arrives, 25 April 1916; composes “Easter 1916” between May and September; printed in 25 copies, 1917; the poem disliked by Maud Gonne (‘It isn’t worthy of you & above all it isn’t worthy of the subject [...] A sacrifice has never yet turned a heart to stone though it has immortalised many’); unsucessfully proposes to Gonne soon after execution of John MacBride (5 May 1916), 1 July 1916;
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1917-19: repeatedly proposes to Isuelt with her mother’s permission given a week after her own refusal; reads French Catholic poets with Iseult with a view to ‘civilis[ing] Irish Catholics’; offers final proposal on mailboat to England, Sept. 1917, to be finally refused a week after; purchases Ballylee Castle, formerly part of Coole estate and now in hands of Congested Districts Board, for �35 on 17 June 1917, re-naming it ‘Thoor Ballylee’; commissiones Prof. William A. Scott to undertake restoration, using concrete for the roof rather than an elaborate design prepared by Sir Edward Lutyens; joins Saville Club, London, 1917; m. Georgie Hyde-Lees at Harrow Rd. Registry Office, 20 Oct. 1917, with Ezra Pound as best man; grows seriously anxious that he has ‘betrayed three people’ (letter to Lady Gregory, 29 Oct. 1917); Mrs. Yeats commences automatic writing, at Ashdown Forest Hotel, late Oct. 1917; first extant record, 5 Nov. 1917 continuing till 20 March 1920]; ‘spiral’ introduced by automatic handwriting, 6 Dec. 1917; fails to locate the lake-isle of Innisfree on honeymoon boat-trip on Lough Gill; final visit to Coole Park, where his presence has become increasingly annoying to junior members of the family, 1917; issues Wild Swans at Coole (Cuala 1917; Macmillan 1919); writes Dreaming of the Bones (1919), set at Corcomroe, Co Galway; asks Edmund Dulac to cut medieval-looking woodcut of Giraldus Cambrensis, though actually a port. of WBY, Jan. 1918 (later used for A Vision); takes rooms in Oxford, 1918; receives news of death of Lady Gregory’s son Robert over Italy, February 1918, and publ. an obituary in the Observer; moves to Glendalough; continues to write prose dialogue involving Robartes and Aherne, in which the former’s wisdom supposedly gleaned from the Judwalis is explained, 1918-19; later boiled down to make A Vision (1925); visits Sligo for restoration of Thoor Ballylee, staying at Ballinamantane House, nr. Gort, lent by Lady Gregory, summer-autumn, 1918; stays at Gonne’s house on St. Stephen’s Green to December 1918; issues Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918), a prose work on the ‘Antithetical Self’ guided by Georgie’s automatic writing and later systematised as A Vision (1925); issues The Only Jealousy of Emer (1919; rev. in prose as Fighting the Waves, 1929); a dg., Anne Yeats, b.1919, named after Ann Hyde, Countess of Ossory, following suggestions that her son is trying to be reincarnated; Yeatses visit Kilkenny to find information for her biography, July 1919; publishes ‘A People’s Theatre’, an open letter to Lady Gregory, 1919; est. Dublin Drama league with James Stephens and Lennox Robinson, offering international drama (to be replaced by the Gate Theatre), 1919; a son, Michael Yeats, b.1921; leases house at 4, Broad St., Oxford, Oct. 1919, giving up rooms at Woburn Buildings after twenty years tenancy; reworks first draft of ‘Memoirs’ for publication as Trembling of the Veil;
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1920-24: tours America, Jan-May 1920-21, including Pasedena, S. California; meets Junzo Sato in Portland, Oregon, and receives from him ‘Sato’s gift’, a 550-yr old Samurai sword, March 1920; frequents Manor House, Garsington, home of Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell near Oxford; friendship of John Masefield and Robert Bridges; returns to Dublin and undergoes tonsilectomy performed by Oliver St. John Gogarty, staying with Gonne in Wicklow Mountains prior to operation, 1920; Calvary (1921), based on Wilde’s The Doer of Good; issued Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), poetry collection; publishes Four Plays for Dancers (1921); condemns British policy in Ireland at Oxford Union, 1921, speaking of ‘the horrible things done to ordinary law-abiding people by these maddened men [i.e., the Black and Tans]’; George travels to Ireland and buys 82 Merrion Sq., 1922 [‘to Dublin what Berkeley Sq. is to London’]; receives honorary degree from QUB, July 1922; death of John Butler Yeats, August 1922; receives to Ard Feis of Sinn Féin and goes to Irish Race Conference in Paris; issues Seven Poems and a Fragment (1922); co-opted Senate of the Irish Free State as cultural advisor at instigation of Desmond Fitzgerald, 1922; receives hon. degree from TCD, Dec. 1922; introduced to Berkeley’s works by Capt. D. A. MacManus, winter 1922-23, and receives 2-vol. edn. of Works from Lennox Robinson soon after; receives the Nobel Prize for Literature, 10 Dec. 1923 (‘How much, Smyllie, how much is it?’), and commended for ‘his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation’ [Nobel Prize Committee]; publishes Plays and Controversies (1923); issues The Cat and the Moon (1924; performed at the Abbey Theatre, 1926), the equivalent of a Japanese ‘kiogen’ farce; visits wife of Mathers, Jan. 1924; his poem “Leda and the Swan” diplomatically refused by George Russell on The Irish Statesman, and printed instead in Francis Stuart’s To-Morrow (1924) which WBY now supports as being a ‘wild paper of the young which will make enemies everywhere and suffer suppression’; gives Irish Times interview (“Paul Claudel and Mussolini - A New School of Thought” ) forecasting ‘authoritative government’; takes long holiday in Sicily, Capri, and Rome, Nov. 1924-Feb. 1925, frequently visiting the Sistine Chapel; suffers from high blood pressure, 1924;
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1925-30: speaks against the anti-Divorce Bill in the Senate, 11 June, 1925, arguing that the price of you pay for an indissoluble marriage is a public opinion that will tolerate cynical an illegal relations between the sexes’; A Vision issued in private edn. (Cuala 1925), with port. of WBY as Giraldus Cambrensis, and soon after in London (Macmillan 15 [var. 11] Jan. 1926; rev. 1937), and called by Ezra Pound ‘very, very bughouse’; addresses the Irish Literary Society on “The Child and the State”, 30 Nov. 1925; publishes The Bounty of Sweden (1925), autobiographical writing; issues Autobiographies (1926); chairs the Committee on the New Irish Coinage, 1926-28; also concerned with Irish MS Commission, historic buildings, National Gallery of Ireland; presses for return of Lane pictures; visits St Otteran’s School, Waterford, as School Inspector for the Irish State, producing “Among School Children” ; suffers a hemorrhage of the lung, 1927; issues October Blast (1928), and his great mature collection, The Tower (1928); visits Mürren and Milan, Autumn 1925; receives Irish Government subsidy for ‘The Child and the State’ (30 Nov. 1925); defends O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars, Feb. 1926 (‘You have disgraced yourselves again [...] You have rocked the cradle of another genius’); makes ‘long, impassioned speech’ in Senate on Copyright Bill; suffers the ‘ignoble complaint’ of measles, 1926, with a small rupture from exercise afterwards; King Oedipus, based on translation by Paul Masqueray (Abbey, 6 Dec. 1926); shocked by assassination of Kevin O’Higgins, 10 July 1927; moved by death of Con Markievicz, August 1927; Oedipus at Colonus, Abbey, 12 Sept. 1927; suffers serious congestion of the lungs, Oct. 1927; visits Cannes to February 1928; sells house on Merrion Square, 1928; makes his last speech and resigns from Senate due to deteriorating health, July 1928; spends winter in Rapello where he owns a flat at No. 12-8, via Americhe, 1928-1934; travels to Algeciras for health, staying at Hotel Reina Cristina, Nov. 1928; suffers from Maltese fever at Rapello, Dec. 1928, and remains ill for four months; experiences ‘exultant weeks’ of recovery in Spring, 1929; stays briefly at Howth hotel, moving to flat in 72 [var. 42] Fitzwilliam Sq., July 1929; visits Coole and stays briefly at Ballylee, the latter for the last time, Summer 1929; issues A Packet for Ezra Pound (August 1929); his Fighting the Waves (Abbey 1929) choreographed and produced as ballet by Ninette de Valois with music by George Antheil and masks by Hildo van Krop; contribs. “The Irish Censorship” to The Spectator (29 Sept. 1928) and “The Censorship and Thomas Aquinas” to Irish Statesman [q.d.]; issues The Winding Stair (October 1929); stays at Portofino, April 1930;
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1931-34: writes ‘Byzantium’; rents South Hill on Killiney Hill, Feb.-May 1931; rescues Cuala Press financially, May 1931; writes ‘Seven Sages’; awarded DLitt (Oxon), May 1931; stays at Coole, Aug. 1931; broadcast in Belfast BBC, Sept. 1931; The Words upon the Window-Pane, his play on Jonathan Swift, produced at Abbey with May Craig as clairvoyant Mrs Henderson, Nov. 1931 [var. 1930]; meets Shri Purohit Swami (b.1882) in 1931, and shares accommodation with him in Majorica, with Gwyneth Foden as a third; and works with Purohit to produce an edition of Ten Principal Upanishads (1937) up to his return to India, 1936; death of Lady Gregory at Coole, 28 April 1932; lectured in Brooklyn, New York, leases Riversdale, Willbrook, nr. Rathfarnham [Dublin Mountains] Co. Dublin, May 1932; establishes the Irish Academy of Letters and Medals with AE and others, Sept. 1926 (membership limited to 25), and opposed at a rally organised by Fr. Gannon, S.J.; lectures in America Oct. 1932-Jan. 1933, giving a lecture, ‘Modern Ireland’, and [another] “The Irish Renaissance” at Bowdoin Coll., Maine, Nov. 1932; publishes Words for Music, Perhaps and Other Poems (Nov. 1932), incl. ‘Crazy Jane’; leases Riversdale, Rathfarnham, 1932; displays a growing affinity with rising European Fascism on the model of Mussolini; introduced to Gen. Eoin O’Duffy (1892-1944) by Capt. Dermot McManus, who had earlier given him Berkeley to read; thinks him a ‘plastic’ man but nevertheless associates with the Irish Fascist (‘Blue Shirts’) movement, 1933; reissues The Winding Stair and Other Poems (Sept. 1933), incorporating Words for Music, Perhaps, with expanded notes on the collection; issues Collected Poems (1933; 1950, &c.) [edns. after 1950 have additional poems]; undergoes Steinach operation implanting testerone and a vasectomy performed by Dr. Norman Haire, London, late Spring, 1934; suffers Pound’s outburst (‘putrid’; Dublin, ‘a reactionary hole’), 1934; writes songs for the Blue Shirts, Dec. 1934, but rewrites them in Aug. with effect that they can no longer be sung; writes ‘Supernatural Songs’ at Rapello, June 1934; resides in Rome, Autumn 1934; The Resurrection (Abbey 1934); issues Collected Plays (1934); publishes Wheels and Butterflies (1934), with preface associating the author with younger Irish writers; The King of the Great Clock Tower (Abbey, 30 July 1934), performed in prose (later to be rewritten as verse and printed in Full Moon in March, 1935); visits Rapallo to sell flat, June 1934; lectures at Allessandra Volta Foundation in Royal Italian Academy, Rome on ‘The Dramatic Theatre’, addressing Maeterlinck, Pirandello, and Gordon Craig among others, Aug. 1934; edits The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 (1936) during undertakes in autumn 1934-936; excludes Wilfred Owen and other war poets who ‘plead for the suffering of their men’; Margot Collis (née Ruddock) of the Group Theatre establishes contact through a proposed poet’s theatre; WBY meets her in London en route to theatrical congress in Rome and initiates friendship in the character of ‘old Pythagoras’ with the ‘Crazed Girl’, who later went mad in Barcelona and had to be rescued by the British Consul, attracting press notice to WBY’s embarrassment; friendship with the successful Irish novelist Ethel Mannin, conducting long correspondence mostly concerning politics, on which they diametrically disagree, from 1934 to his death;
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1935-37: issues A Full Moon in March (1935), poetry, and Dramatis Personae (1935), prose; occupies 17, Lancaster Gate Tce., London (during five weeks illness from congestion of the lungs), March 1935; PEN dinner in his honour, Dublin, June 1935; attended funeral of George Russell (“AE”) in Bournemouth, July 1935; Nancy Price of People’s National Theatre Co. put on The Player Queen with Margot Ruddock, in a festival of WBY’s plays, Autumn 1935; ed., Cuala Broadsides with Dorothy Wellesley (estranged wife of future Duke of Wellington and former lesbian lover of Vita Sackville-West), and engages in sexual threesome with her and her companion Hilda Matheson, at Penns in the Rocks in 1936; travels to Majorca with Shri Purohit Swami, translating Upanishads, accompanied by Mrs. Gwyneth Foden; brief infatuation with Foden, terminating with her flight back to London when he disclosed his low opinion of her verse in public; experiences heart trouble and nephritis, 1936; visited Margot visits Majorca in May, who threatens suicide and throws herself from hospital window; her husband sells story to papers; WBY shelters with Dorothy Wellesley; broadcasts on modern poetry for BBC radio, London 1936-37; records broadcast from Abbey stage, Feb. 1937; four broadcasts directed by George Barnes, being ‘In the Poet’s Pub’ (2 April [1937]); ‘In the Poet’s Parlour (22 April 1937); ‘My Own Poetry (3 July 1937), and ‘My Own Poetry Again’ (29 Oct. 1937); The Words Upon the Window-Pane, broadcast during Experimental Hour, BBC, National Programme (22 Nov. 1937); ‘Roger Casement’ appears in Irish Press, Feb. 1937; elected member of Athenaeum Club, 1937; visits Dorothy Wellesley at Penn in the Rocks, for his last broadcast (prob. July 1937, of which there is a photo port.); returns to Rathfarnham; banquet for WBY in Dublin, 17 Aug. 1937 (resulting in A Speech and Two Poems, 1937); 2nd ed. of A Vision published Oct. 1937; answered Pablo Neruda’s call to visit Madrid with a letter supporting the Republic against Fascism; published Essays 1931-1936 (1937); travels to Mentone, Winter 1937;
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1938: issues New Poems (1938), writes The Herne’s Egg, January 1938; to England, March 1938; his last visit to the Abbey to attend the premier of Purgatory (10 August 1938), with settings by Anne Yeats who also designed On Baile’s Strand (11 August); stays with Dorothy Wellesley at Penns in the Rocks, Sussex, and next with Edith Shackleton Heald (b.1884), feminist [sometimes called misandrogynous] correspondent of the Daily Express, and her sister Nora at The Chantry House, the house they built at Steyning, Sussex, Spring 1938; continues the affair with Edith at in small flat on Holland Park (‘those who create have to cultivate the wild beast in themselves’); refuses invitation to lecture in India; Maud Gonne visits at Riversdale; completes ‘Under Ben Bulben’, on 4 Sept., 1938; publ. The Death of Cuchulain (1939; produced 1949); plans On the Boiler (1939), actually written in Monaco and Menton, and pub posthumously under the Cuala imprint in Oct. 1938; “I Became an Author” [article], in Listener, 1938, his penultimate publication; issues New Poems (1938); travels to Monte Carlo, soon removing to Menton and settling in Hôtel Idéal-Séjour, Cap Martin for health, Dec. 1938, sharing it with Edith, while Georgie, Dorothy and Hilda occupied a nearby villa; falls seriously ill, Winter 1938; dictates prose draft on 7 Jan., forming basis of ‘Cuchulain Comforted’; Last Poems and Two Plays (publ. June 1938);
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1939: Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats published by Macmillan, September 1938; writes last poem, ‘The Black Tower’, 21 Jan. 1939; dictates revisions to Georgie; passes into coma, and d. afternoon, 28 Jan., at Roquebrune, Cap Martin, S. France; vigiled by Edith and Georgie; bur. at Roquebrune; memorial services held in Dublin (St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 7 Feb.) and London (16 March, St. Martin’s in the Fields, organised by John Masefield); W. H. Auden issued a dialogue, ‘The Public v. the Private Yeats’, 1939; a commemorative issue of The Arrow appeared in 1940, as did an issue of The Bell with several evaluative essays; obituary issue of London Mercury (March 1939), incl. first printing of “Four Recent Poems”; his remains removed from France on board the corvette Macha, and reinterred at Drumcliff in keeping with his wishes, Sept. 1948, with the epitaph given in ‘Under Ben Bulben’ engraved on the unadorned stone (‘Cast a cold eye/On life, on death./Horseman, pass by!’); current rector of Drumcliff refuses to conduct interment; doubts cast on whether the remains were authentically Yeatses; Mrs. Yeats bestows a large number of WBY’s manuscript plays on the NLI in Autumn, 1957; centenary ceremony held in Sligo, and addressed by Frank O’Connor, 1965; responsibility for biography authorised by Mrs. Yeats passes from Denis Donoghue to F. S. L. Lyons and at his early death to Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford), issued as The Apprentice Mage (Vol. I, 1997), to be followed by The Arch-Poet (Vol 2, 2003); a life of Mrs. Yeats is in the hands of Ann Saddlemyer; the entire personal library of WBY amounting to 2,500 books was donated to the National Library of Ireland, by his son Michael and grand-daughter Gráinne, to be housed in a separate Yeats Room. NCBE DIB DIW DIL PI IF OCEL KUN ODQ FDA G20 HAM OCIL

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Works

Poetry Collections (original editions)
Mosada: A Dramatic Poem (Dublin: Sealy, Bryer & Walker 1886) [first printed in Dublin University Review, and then published in pamphlet form by subscription on his father’s account; 100 copies printed, of which a dozen are extant]; The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1889); Poems (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1895; rev. eds. 1899, 1901); The Secret Rose (London: Lawrence & Bullen 1897), book design by Althea Gyles, dedication to A.E. [‘war of the spiritual with the natural order’]; The Wind Among the Reeds (London: Elkin Mathews 1899), design of intertwining reeds by Althea Gyles [with 12 de luxe copies on vellum; 500 copies]; In the Seven Woods (Dublin: Dun Emer 1903) [actually publ. 1904]; Twenty One Poems (Dub, Dun Emer 1904) [actually 1905]; The Green Helmet and Other Poems ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum 1910; NY & London: Macmillan 1912) [the Macmillan edn. adding six poems]; Poems [rev. edn.] (London: T Fisher Unwin 1912); Poems Written in Discouragement ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1913); Responsibilities: Poems and a Play ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1914; London: Macmillan 1916); Eight Poems (Moreland Press [1916]), 20[24pp.], technical [publication in ltd. edn. 400 with complex variants in publisher and bibliographical form]; also Easter 1916 (1916) [lim. edn. of 25 copies ‘privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends’]; The Wild Swans at Coole: Other Verses and a Play in Verse [i.e., At The Hawk’s Well, omitted from Macmillan edn., 1919] ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1917); Nine Poems (London, priv. by Clement Shorter 1918); The Wild Swans at Coole [2nd edn.] (London: Macmillan 1919) [add. poems incl. ‘Irish Airman’, Phases of the Moon’, ‘The Saint and the Hunchback’; ‘Two Songs of a Fool’, ‘The Double Vision of Michael Robartes’]; Michael Robartes and The Dancer ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1920); Seven Poems and a Fragment ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1922); Later Poems (London: Macmillan 1922); The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems (Dublin: 1924); Seven Poems and Certain Poems ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1924); October Blast ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1927); The Tower (London: Macmillan 1928) [cover design by Sturge Moore]; Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1932); The Winding Stair and Other Poems (London: Macmillan 1933) [ded. Edmund Dulac]; New Poems ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1938); Last Poems and Two Plays [plays being ‘The Death of Cuchulain’ and ‘Purgatory’] ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1939; US 1940) [Wade 204]; If I Were Four-and-Twenty (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1940) [ltd. edn. 450].

Poetry Collections (London)
[Macmillan editions as opposed to earlier Cuala edns.]: Crossways (1889); The Rose (1893); The Wind Among the Reeds (1899); In the Seven Woods (1904); The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910); Responsibilities (1914); The Wild Swans at Coole (1919); Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921); The Tower (1928); The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933); Words for Music Perhaps [1931]; A Woman Young and Old [q.d.]; A Full Moon in March (1935); Last Poems and Plays (posthum. 1940) [1936-39; incl. three poems formerly issued in On the Boiler, 1939].

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Plays (original editions)
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1892; Bost: Roberts Bros. [1892]), Do., another edn. [revised 7th edn., 1912) [Wade 93]; The Land of Heart’s Desire (London: T Fisher Unwin 1894; Chicago: Stone & Kimball 1894), Do., rev. edn. (Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1903), and Do., another edn. (Windsor Press 1926) [ltd. 750 copies]; The Shadowy Waters: A Dramatic Poem (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1900) [ded. Lady Gregory]; Cathleen Ni Houlihan (London: A. H. Bullen 1902), Do., another edn. [2nd Theatre Edn.] (1909) [Wade 93]; Where There Is Nothing [Vol. 1 of Plays for an Irish Theatre] (London: A. H. Bullen 1903) [first printed in supplement to The United Irishman, 1 Nov. 1902] [Wade 44]; The Hour-Glass (London: Heinemann 1903); The Hour-Glass and Other Plays, being vol. two of plays for an Irish Theatre (London: Macmillan 1904) [ltd. edn. 100 on Japanese vellum; Wade 52]; ; Deirdre (London: A. H. Bullen; Dublin: Maunsel 1907) [performed 1908]; with Lady Gregory, The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays (NY: Macmillan 1908) [title play revised version of Where There is Nothing; Cathleen ni Houlihan, and The Hour-Glass]; The Golden Helmet (NY: John Quinn 1908); [later The Green Helmet]; The Green Helmet (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1911) [only sep. edn.]; The Countess Cathleen [rev. edn.] (T. Fisher Unwin 1912); The Player Queen (London: Macmillan 1922); Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version for the Modern Stage (London: Macmillan 1928; US 1928); The Words Upon the Window Pane ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1934); The Full Moon in March [title play and verse revision of ‘The King and the Great Clock Tower’, with various poems] (London: Macmillan 1935); Last Poems and Plays [poems selected varying from Last Poems and Two Plays ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1939; London: Macmillan 1940).

Plays (collected editions)
The Hour-Glass and Other Plays [‘Cathleen ni Houlihan’ and ‘The Pot of Broth’]; (NY & London: Macmillan 1904); The Hour-Glass, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth [Vol. 2 of Plays for an Irish Theatre] (London: A. H. Bullen 1904; Dublin: Maunsel 1905); The King’s Threshold [and] On Baile’s Strand [Vol. 3 of Plays for an Irish Theatre] (London: A. H. Bullen 1904); Plays for an Irish Theatre [‘Deirdre; ‘The Green Helmet’; ‘On Baile’s Strand’; ‘The King’s Threshold’; ‘The Shadowy Waters’; ‘The Hour Glass’; ‘Cathleen ni Houlihan’] (London & Stratford: A. H. Bullen 1911), with preface; Two Plays for Dancers [‘The Dreaming of the Bones’, and ‘Only Jealousy of Emer’] ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1919); Four Plays for Dancers [‘At the Hawk’s Well’; The Only Jealousy of Emer’; ‘The Dreaming of the Bones’; ‘Calvary’] (q.d.); Plays in Prose and Verse, Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend [Lady Gregory] (London: Macmillan 1922); Wheels and Butterflies [‘The Words Upon the Window Pane’; ‘Fighting the Waves’; ‘The Resurrection’; ‘The Cat and the Moon’] (London: Macmillan 1934); The Herne’s Egg; A Stage Play (London: Macmillan 1938) [Wadd 196]; Diarmuid and Grania [rep. from the Dublin Magazine (April-June 1951).

Fiction
Pseud. ‘Ganconagh’, John Sherman and Dhoya [Unwin ‘Pseudonym. Library’] (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1891; 3rd edn. 1892), (iv), [1]-195pp., and Do., rep. edn. (Dublin: Lilliput 1990); The Celtic Twilight: Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries (London: Lawrence & Bullen 1893; NY: Macmillan 1894), x, 235pp. [2,000 copies; the last poem, ‘Into the Twilight’, orig. printed as ‘The Celtic Twilight’ in National Observer; Wade 8]; The Celtic Twilight (London: Lawrence & Bullen 1902), revised and enlarged edn.; another edn., The Celtic Twilight: Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries (1912); The Tables of the Law [and] The Adoration of the Magi (priv. edn. 1897; London: Elkin Mathews 1904); Do., priv. edn. (1914) [ltd. 510; Wade 26]; Stories of Red Hanrahan (Dublin: Dun Emer 1904) [actually 1905; incl. ‘The Twisting of the Rope’]; Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends, An Extract from a Record Made by his Pupils; and a Play in Prose [‘The Resurrection’] ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1932); Modern Poetry, a Broadcast [BBC lecture] (BBC 1936) [from Northern Ireland].

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Criticism & miscellaneous prose
Ideas of Good and Evil (London: A. H. Bullen 1903) [contains ‘The Autumn of the Body’, first issued as ‘Autumn of the Flesh’, 1898; ‘The Symbolism of Poetry’, 1900; ‘The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry’, 1900; ‘Magic’, first publ. in The Monthly Review, Sept. 1901; and ‘At Stratford-on-Avon’]; The Cutting of the Agate (NY: Macmillan 1912; London: Macmillan 1919) [incl. ‘Lady Gregory’s Translations’, ‘Poetry and Tradition’; ‘The Tragic Theatre’, pp.25-35; ‘Preface to the First Edition of The Well of The Saints’, pp.111-22; ‘Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations’, pp.123-29; ‘J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time’, pp.130-76]; Per Amica Silentia Lunae (London: Macmillan 1918) [dedicated to Isuelt Gonne; incl. Ego Dominus Tuus’, first published 1917, now appearing with Anima Hominis and Anima Mundi, essays formerly gathered as An Alphabet]; Poetry and Ireland, Essays by W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1909) [var. 1908]; Synge and the Ireland of His Time by William Butler Yeats with a Note Concerning a Walk through Connemara with Him by Jack Butler Yeats. ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1911); Introduction to Ezra Pound, Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1916); Plays and Controversies (London: Macmillan 1923; NY: Macmillan 1924); Essays (London: Macmillan 1924) [first vol. of Uniform Edition]; Letters to the New Island, ed. Horace Reynolds (Cambridge Mass: Harvard UP 1934) [early criticism published in America]; Essays, 1931-1936 ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1937); On the Boiler ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala [1939]); Tribute to Thomas Davis (Cork UP; Oxford: Blackwell 1947), with foreword by Denis Gwynn and ‘Unpublished Letter’ by "AE" [George Russell].

A Vision
A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraltus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta ben Luka (London: T. Werner Laurie 1925) [actually 1926; issued for subscribers]; A Vision [rev. & enl. edn.] (London: Macmillan 1937) [Wade 191]; reiss. with corrections 1962; rep. 12967, 1974, 1978, &c.), 304pp. [subscribed Capri February 1925 on p.300 and 1934-1939 on p.302 [“The End of the Cycle”], to which is attached “All Souls’ Night”, pp.303-05, subscribed Oxford 1920]; George Mills Harper & Walter Kelly Hood, eds., A Critical Edition of Yeats's “A Vison” [1925] (London: Macmillan 1978).

Criticism (selected articles)
‘The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson’, in The Irish Fireside [Irish Poets and Irish Poetry ser.] (9 Oct., 1886) [rep. John Frayne, ed., Uncollected Prose, Vol. I, Macmillan 1970, pp.81-87]; ‘The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson’, in Dublin University Review, 2 (Nov. 1886); Frayne, 1, 87-104; ‘Popular Ballad Poetry of Ireland’, in Leisure Hour (No. 1889 [written in July 1887]; rep. Frayne, I, pp.146-62; ‘Nationality and Literature’ [a lecture given on 19 May 1893], reported in United Ireland, 27 May, 1893; Frayne, I, pp.266-75); ‘Irish National Literature, I, From Callanan to Carleton, Bookman, July 1895; Frayne, I, p.360-64); ‘Irish National Literature, II, Contemporary Prose Writers - Mr. O’Grady, Miss Lawless, Miss Barlow, Miss Hopper, and the Folk-lorists’, Bookman, Aug. 1895; Frayne, I, p.366-73); ‘Irish National Literature, III, Contemporary Irish Poets - Dr Hyde, Mr Rolleston, Mrs Hinkson, Miss Nora Hopper, A.E., Mr. Aubrey de Vere, Dr Todhunter, and Mr. Lionel Johnson’ (Bookman, Sept. 1895; Frayne, I, pp.375-82); ‘Irish National Literature, IV, A List of the Best Irish Books’ (Bookman, Oct. 1895; Frayne, I, pp.382-87); ‘Contemporary Prose Writers,’ The Bookman (Aug 1895), includes remarks on Standish O’Grady, Emily Lawless, et al.; W. B. Yeats, ‘A General Introduction to [recte ‘for’] My Work’ in Edward Callan, Yeats on Yeats: The Last Introductions and the ‘Dublin’ Edition, New Yeats Papers XX (Mountrath: Dolmen 1981), pp.59-63 [see FDA3 667n. for comment]; W. B. Yeats and Thomas Kinsella, Davis, Mangan, Ferguson? Tradition and the Irish Writer (Dublin: Dolmen 1970); also ‘Modern Ireland’ [rep. of 1936 BBC lecture], in Robin Skelton and David R. Clark, eds., Irish Renaissance (Dublin: Dolmen 1965); see also Yeats, ‘The Censorship and St Thomas Aquinas’ [Irish Statesman 11 (1928), 47-48 [rep. in Uncollected Prose, ed. Frayne, Vol. 2, London: Macmillan 1975, pp.477-80; also in Julia Carlson, ed., Banned in Ireland, Censorship & the Irish Writer, Routledge/Georgia UP 1990]. For fuller listing, see Table of Content of John. Frayne, The Uncollected Prose, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan 1970-75), infra.

Autobiographical Writings
Discoveries (Dublin: Dun Emer 1907); Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1915, actually appearing 1916) [the first designed by Sturge Moore]; The Trembling of the Veil (London: T. Werner Laurie 1922) [for subscribers; October 1922; incl. ‘Four Years’ (1921) [publ. in London Mercury and The Dial, July 1921], dealing with 1887-91, and also a ‘A Biographical Fragment with some notes’, later ‘The Stirring of the Bones’]; Autobiographies (London: Macmillan 1926) [consisting of ‘Ireland After Parnell’, ‘Hodos Chameliontos’, ‘The Tragic Generation’, ‘The Stirring of the Bones’]; The Bounty of Sweden ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1925); Estrangement, Being Some Fifty Thoughts from a Diary Kept by William Butler Yeats in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Nine ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1926); The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1928) [first printed as ‘The Death of Synge and Other Pages ... &c.]’ in The Dial [Chicago], April 1928, pp.271-88; rep. as ‘... and Other Passages ... (&c.), in The London Mercury, XVII, April 1928, pp.637-52]; further extracts from 1909 onwards; A Packet for Ezra Pound ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1929); Dramatis Personae ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1935), dealing with 1896-1902; Dramatis Personae 1892-1902, Estrangement, The Death of Synge, The Bounty of Sweden (NY: Macmillan 1936); The Autobiographies (London: Macmillan 1938) [consisting of ‘Reveries Over Childhood and Youth’; ‘The Trembling of the Veil’; ‘Dramatis Personae’]. (See further under Posthumous Writings.)

Denis Donoghue, transcribed & ed., W. B. Yeats: Memoirs: Autobiography - A First Draft [&] Journal (NY: Macmillan 1972); [containing an ‘Autobiography’ for the years 1887-90, written in 1916-17, pp.19-135; Journal, pp.137-280; Appendixes, ‘Occult Notes and Diary, &c.; ‘A Symbolic Artist and theComing of Symbolic Art’; ‘Althea Gyles’; William Sharp; Gosse, Lady Gregory and Yeats; Proceedings of the American society for Psychical Research; Key Passages from the Journal Published in Estrangement and The Death of Synge].

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Anthologies & editions
Ed., with others [chiefly by T. W. Rolleston under guidance of John O’Leary], Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland (Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son 1888) [incls. work by Ellen O’Leary, Douglas Hyde, John Todhunter, T. W. Rolleston, Katharine Tynan, Rose Kavanagh, and Yeats’s poems The Stolen Child’, ‘Meditations of the Old Fisherman’, ‘Madness of King Goll’ and ‘Love Songs’; Wade 289]; ed., Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (London: Walter Scott; NY: Thom. Whitaker; Toronto: W. J. Gage 1888) [T. C. Croker, William Carleton, Patrick Kennedy, Lady Wilde; as well as others trans. from Irish collected by Hyde; with poems by Mangan, Allingham, Ferguson and W. B. Yeats]; ed., A Book of Irish Verse: Selected from Modern Writers with an Introduction [‘Modern Irish Poetry’] and notes by W. B. Yeats (London: Methuen 1895), 275pp.; also Do. [2nd and later editions], (London: Methuen 1900, 1912, 1920 [4th edn.]), incl. Preface to New Edn., and former Introduction, p.xvii-xxxi [Wade 225]; ed., with introduction, Stories from Carleton (London: London: Walter Scott; NY: Thom. Whitaker; Toronto: W. J. Gage [1889]); ed. Representative Irish Tales, 2 vols. (NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Knickerbocker Press [1891]) [Carleton and nine other Irish authors]; ed. Irish Fairy Tales [Children’s Library] (London: T. Fisher Unwin; NY: Cassell 1892), ill. Jack B. Yeats [collects 16 tales by Carleton, Crofton Croker, Michael Hart, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Lover, P. W. Joyce, Douglas Hyde, Lady Wilde, Gerald Griffin, Standish O’Grady, with a final chapter on classification and bibliography, by Yeats]; ed., with Edwin J[ohn] Ellis, The Works of William Blake, […] Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical Edition […] by Edwin John Ellis […] and William Butler Yeats, 3 vols. (London: Bernard Quaritch 1893) [ltd. edn. 500; Wade 218]; ed. Poems of Spenser (Edinburgh, T. C. & E. C. Jack [1906]); ed., Some Essays and Passages by John Eglinton (Dublin: Dun Emer 1905); ed. Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan (Dublin: Dun Emer 1907); ed. Poems and Translations by John M. Synge ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1909); ed. Deirdre of the Sorrows: A Play by John M. Synge ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1910); ed. Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1912); Introduction to Shri Purohit Swami, trans., Bhagwan Shri Hamsa, An Indian Monk: His Life and Adventures (1932); Introduction to Shri Purohit Swami, The Holy Mountain: Being the Story of a Pilgrimage to Lake Manas and of Initiation on Mount Kailas in Tibet (1934), and also to his trans. and annotation of Patanjali’s Aphorisms of Yoga [q.d.]; ed. with F. R. Higgins, Broadsides ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1935), twelve monthly poetry sheets, 4pp., in each; also ed. The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1936); ed. Shree [var. Shri] Purohit Swami, Ten Principal Upanishads (London: Faber 1937); ed., with Dorothy Wellesley, Broadsides ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1937) [first separately, then bound, Dec. 1937]; Yeats, Preface to Joseph Hone and M[ario] M Rossi, Bishop Berkeley (London: Faber 1931); also preface to Oliver St. John Gogarty, An Offering of Swans (Cuala Press 1924), and Gogarty, Wild Apples (1930).

Journals & Broadsides
ed., Beltaine: an Occasional Publication, Number One (London: At the Sign of the Unicorn; Dublin: At the Daily Express Office [May] 1889); Beltaine, Number Two (London: At the Sign of the Unicorn 1900); Beltaine, Number Three (London: At the Sign of the Unicorn 1900); Samhain [No. 1] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1901); Samhain [No. 2] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1902); Samhain [No. 3] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1903); Samhain [No. 4] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1904); Samhain [No. 5] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: A. H. Bullen 1905); The Arrow [five pamphlets] (Abbey Treatre 20 Ct. 1906-22 Aug. 1909); Samhain [No. 6] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: A. H. Bullen 1906); Samhain [No. 7] (Dublin: Maunsel 1908). A Collection of Old and New Songs, ed., F. R. Higgins, with W. B. Yeats (Cuala [MCMXXXV] 1935), rep. IUP 1971, T. M MacGlinchey publ. ; Robert Hogg, printer); with songs by Yeats, James Stephens, F. R. Higgins, Frank O’Connor, Lynn Doyle, Bryan Guiness [sic], Padraic Colum ; ills. By Jack B Yeats, Victor Brown, Sean O’Sullivan, E. C. Peet, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal ; music by Arthur Duff. ALSO, Broadsides: New Irish and English Songs, ed. W. B. Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley, ill. Jack B. Yeats, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal. [Note that copy in PGIL with this cover actually binds Old and New Songs, as supra.]

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Collected & Selected works (contemporary)
The Poetical Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. I, Lyrical Poems (NY & London: Macmillan 1906); Vol. II; Dramatical Poems (NY & London: Macmillan 1907); Poems Lyrical and Narrative; Being the First Volume of the Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908); The King’s Threshold; On Baile’s Strand; Deirdre; The Shadowy Waters [Vol. II of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908); The Countess Cathleen; The Land of Heart’s Desire; The Unicorn from the Stars [Vol. III of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908); The Hour Glass; Cathleen Ni Houlihan; The Golden Helmet; and The Irish Dramatic Movement: Being the Fourth Volume of the Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908) [Vol. IV of Coll. Works]; The Celtic Twilight; and Stories of Red Hanrahan [Vol. V of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908); Ideas of Good and Evil [Vol. VI of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908); The Secret Rose; Rosa Alchemica; The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi; John Sherman and Dhoya [Vol. VII of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908); Edmund Spenser; Poetry and Tradition and Other Essays [Vol. VIII of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908); [?Synge,] Poems, Second Series (Lon & Stratford: A. H. Bullen 1909) [actually 1910]; A Selection from the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1913); Selected Poems (NY: Macmillan 1921); Early Poems and Stories (London: Macmillan 1925); The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (NY: Macmillan 1933); The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1934; 1952) [20 prev. printed plays, and Oedipus at Colonus; eds. after 1952 have additional plays]; Nine One-act Plays (London: Macmillan 1937).

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Posthumous & scholarly editions
Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1944); Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1950), Do., with additions (1950) [Wade 211]; Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1953) [Wade 211D]; Autobiographies (London: Macmillan 1955) [consisting of ‘Reveries over Childhood and Youth’, ‘The Trembling of the Veil’, ‘Dramatis Personae’, ‘Estrangement’, ‘The Death of Synge’ and ‘The Bounty of Sweden’]; Mythologies (London & NY: Macmillan 1959); Donald Pearce, ed., The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats (Bloomington: Indiana UP 1960; London: Faber & Faber 1961); Essays and Introductions (London & NY: Macmillan 1961), 2 ports.; Later Poems (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1961); Explorations, selected by Mrs. W. B. Yeats (London & NY: Macmillan 1962), viii. 452pp.; W. B .Yeats, Eleven Plays by W. B. Yeats (NY: Collier Books 1964); John P. Frayne ed., Uncollected Prose: Reviews, Articles, and Other Miscellaneous Prose, 1897-1939, Vol. 1 (London: Macmillan; NY: Columbia UP 1970) [infra]; Denis Donoghue, transcribed & ed., W. B. Yeats, Memoirs - Autobiography: A First Draft [&] Journal (NY: Macmillan 1972) [containing an ‘Autobiography’ for the years 1887-90, written in 1916-17, pp.19-135; ‘Journal’, pp.137-280; also Appendixes; Robert O’Driscoll, Symbolism and Some Implications of the Symbolic Approach: W. B. Yeats and the Eighteen-Nineties (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1975); Robert O’Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds, eds., Yeats and the Theatre (Toronto: Macmillan 1975) [incl. lecture, ‘Friends of My Youth’]; John Frayne & Colton Johnson, ed., Uncollected Prose [2 Vols.], Vol. 2 (Macmillan; Columbia UP 1975) [infra]; William H. O’Donnell, ed., The Speckled Bird, with Variant Versions (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 1976); Mary Helen Thuente, ed. and intro., Representative Irish Tales [1891] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1979); George Mills Harper, general ed., Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers, 3 vols. (London: Macmillan; Iowa UP 1992) [papers of Yeats and Mrs Yeats]; Robert Welch, ed., Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend, and Myth (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1993) [infra]; [q. ed.], Essays on Irish Literature [Penguin Twentieth Century Classics] (Penguin 1997) [var. 1995], 320pp.; George J. Watson, ed., and intro. W. B. Yeats, Short Fiction [John Sherman, Dhoya, and stories of The Secret Rose] (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1995), 320pp.; ‘Countess Cathleen’, in The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays [Synge, Yeats, and O’Casey] (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1996), 224pp.; Richard Allen Cave, ed., W. B. Yeats, Selected Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1997), 448pp.

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Definitive editions
Richard Finneran & George Mills Harper, general eds., The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: R. J. Finneran, ed., Vol. 1: The Poems (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 1989); William H. O’Donnell, ed., Vol. 5: Later Essays (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 1994); William H. O’Donnell, ed., Vol. 6: Prefaces and Introductions (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 1989); George Bornstein, ed., Vol. 7: Letters to the New Island (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 1989); Vol. 12: R. J. Finneran, ed., John Sherman and Dhoya (1992) [continuing].

Collected & standard editions
Poems [1st edn.] (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1895) [ltd. edn. 750; Wade 15]; The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1933; 2 vols., 1949); new ed., (London: Macmillan 1950, 1951 [corrected], &c.; 8th imp. 1956 et seq.); Richard J. Finneran, ed., The Poems: A New Edition [3rd ed.] (London: Macmillan 1983, 1984) [controversial edn. follows order of 1933 edn. sectioned into lyrical, narrative, and dramatic poems rather than chronological as in original collections, and and incl. poems rejected from canon by Yeats]; Daniel Albright, ed., W. B. Yeats: The Poems [Everyman] (London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1990; 1992), 940pp.; The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1934; later edns. incl. 1960, 1969); A. N. Jeffares, ed., Selected Poems (London: Macmillan 1962); Jeffares, ed., Selected Plays (London: Macmillan 1964; Pan 1974); Jeffares, ed., Selected Prose (London: Macmillan 1964, and eds.); Jeffares, ed., Selected Criticism (London: Macmillan 1964 Pan 1980); Autobiographies (London: Macmillan 1955); Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, eds., The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1957), Do. [Corrected 3rd Edn.] (London: Macmillan 1966); Russell K. Alspach and Catherine C. Alspach, eds., The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1965; 1966); Mythologies (London: Macmillan 1959); Essays and Introductions (London: Macmillan 1961) [contains ‘Ideas of Good and Evil’, ‘The Cutting of the Agate’, and later essays and introductions]; Donald R. Pearce, ed., Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats (Indiana UP 1960); and Explorations, selected by Mrs W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1962); Walter Starkie, ed., The Celtic Twilight and a Selection of Early Poems (NY: Signet Classics 1962); John P. Frayne and Colton Johnson, eds., Uncollected Prose, Reviews: Articles, and Other Miscellaneous Prose, 1897-1939, 2 vols. (NY: Columbia UP 1970, 1975); R. J. Finneran, ed. W. B. Yeats, The Poems: A New Edition (London: Macmillan [3rd ed.] 1983, 1984), issued along with Editing Yeats’s Poems: A Reconsideration (1983); A. Norman Jeffares, Yeats’s Poems, with appendix by Warwick Gould (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989); A. Norman Jeffares, ed., A Vision and Related Writings [1937 Revised Version] (London: Arena 1990); Timothy Webb, ed., Selected Poems of W. B. Yeats [Penguin classics] (London: Penguin 1990; 2000), xlii, 322pp.; Robert Welch, ed., W. B. Yeats: Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend, and Myth (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1993); James Pethica [William College], sel. & ed., Yeats’s Poetry, Drama, and Prose: Authoritative Texts; Contexts [and] Criticism [Norton Critical Edition] (NY & London: W. W. Norton & Co. 2000), 518 [ded. ‘For Warwick and Deirdre [Gould]’]; Richard Allen Cave, Selected Plays of W. B. Yeats [Penguin 20th-century Classics] London: Penguin, 1997), xlviii, 389pp., ill. with music & plans; Richard J. Finneran, ed., The Yeats Reader: Selected Poetry, Drama and Prose (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2002), 527pp. & index. [8 plays, &c.]; Edward Larrissy, ed., W. B. Yeats: A Critical Edition of the Major Works (OUP 1997), 572pp. [poems divided by genre as in 1933 edn.]; Seamus Heaney, ed., The Faber Yeats (London: Faber & Faber 2004) [retitle of 2002].

Reprint editions
CORNELL YEATS SERIES: Philip L. Marcus, Warwick Gould & Michael J. Sidnell, The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition (Cornell UP 1981), xxxiv, 271pp., and Do. [2nd Edn., rev. & enl.] London: Macmillan 1992), xlvii, 297pp., ill., ports.; Phillip L. Marcus, ed., The Death of Cuchulain (NY: Cornell UP 1982), x, 182pp.; Sandra F. Siegel, ed., Purgatory: Manuscript Materials [Cornell Yeats Series] (Cornell 1986), 240pp. [incl. author’s final text]; George Bornstein, ed., The Early Poetry, Vol. I, ‘Mosada’ and ‘The Island of Statues’: Manuscript Materials [Cornell Yeats Series] (NJ: Cornell UP 1986), 456pp.; Andrew Parkin, ed., The Herne’s Egg [in Irish Dramatic Texts Series] (1991); Allison Armstrong, ed., The Herne’s Egg [Cornell Yeats Series] (NY: Cornell UP 1993), 205pp.; Carolina Holdsworth, ed., The Wind Among the Reeds: Manuscript Materials [Cornell Yeats Series] (Cornell UP 1993), 256pp.; Catherine Phillips, ed., The Hour-Glass: Manuscript Materials [Cornell Yeats Series] (NY: Cornell UP 1994), 408pp.; Thomas Parkinson and Ann Brannley, eds., Michael Robartes and the Dancer [Cornell Yeats Series] (NY: Cornell UP 1994), 232pp.; George Bornstein, ed., The Early Poetry, Vol. II, ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’ and Other Early Poems to 1895 [Cornell Yeats Series] (Cornell UP 1994), 576pp.; Stephen Parrish, ed., The Wild Swans at Coole: Manuscript Materials [Cornell Yeats Series] (Cornell UP 1995), 476pp.; David R Clark, ed., The Winding Stair [1929]: MS Materials [Cornell Yeats Series] (Cornell 1995), 266pp.; James Pethica, ed., W. B Yeats, Last Poems: Manuscript Materials [Cornell Yeats Series (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP), 471pp. [See Cornell Series as listed on the publisher's website.]

SCRIBNER COLLECTED WORKS (ongoing compilation): The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. III: Autobiographies, ed., William H. O’Donnell & Douglas N. Archibald (NY: Scribner 2002), 560pp.; Vol. V: Later Essays, ed. William H. O’Donnell (NY:: Scribner 2003), 560pp. [first iss. 1989]; Vol. X: Later Articles and Reviews [post-1900], ed. Colton Johnson (Scribner 2003), 426pp.

MACMILLAN EDITIONS (check status): The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats - Vol. XII: “John Sherman and Dhoya”, ed., Richard J. Finneran (London: Macmillan [2002]), 144pp.; William H. O’Donnell, ed., The Speckled Bird (London: Palgrave), 274pp. critical variorum edition [1896; final draft 1902].

SUNDRY EDITIONS (POETRY): Daniel Albright, Poems of W. B. Yeats (1990); A. Norman Jeffares (1989); Augustine Martin (Vintage 1990; 1992); Ian Hamilton, ed., W. B. Yeats, Selected Poems (Bloomsbury 1992), 144pp. [emphasis on love poetry]; also Poems [rep. of 1895 edn.] (Spelsbury: Woodstock Books 1994); The Wind among the Reeds [1899] [Decadents, Symbolists, Anti-Decadents series] (Woodstock Books 1994). Also, Joseph Spence, ed., The Sayings of W. B. Yeats (London 1993); Seamus Heaney, ed. W. B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (London: Faber 2000).

SUNDRY EDITIONS (PROSE): Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends: An Extract from A Record Made by His Friends; and a Play in Prose [The Resurrection] [facs. rep. of Cuala 1931 Edn.] (Shannon: IUP 1970), [4], 46pp.; Michael Sidnell, George P Mayhew, and David R. Clark eds., Druid Craft: The Writing of ‘The Shadowy Waters’ (Amherst: Massachusetts UP 1971); Curtis Bradford, ed., The Writing of ‘The Player Queen’ (Northern Illinois UP 1977); David R. Clark & James B. McGuire, eds., The Writing of ‘Sophocles’ King Oedipus’ (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1989).

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Correspondence
‘Some Passages from the Letters of W. B. Yeats to A. E.’, Dublin Magazine, n.s., XIV (July-Sept. 1939); [Hone, ed.,] Letters on the Poetry of W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley (OUP 1940; 1964); Clifford Bax, ed., Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, and W. B. Yeats ([Dublin] Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1941) [see vars. under Bax]; Ursula Bridge, ed., W. B. Yeats and T[homas] Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901-37 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1953); Roger McHugh, ed., Letters to Katharine Tynan (Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds; NY: McMullen 1953); Alan Wade, ed., The Letters of W. B. Yeats (London: Rupert Hart 1954; NY: Macmillan 1955); Roger McHugh, ed., Ah, Sweet Dancer: W. B. Yeats-Margot Ruddock: A Correspondence (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1970), 142pp.; Richard Finneran, ed., The Correspondence of Robert Bridges and W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1977); Ann Saddlemyer, ed., Theatre Business: The Correspondence of the First Abbey Theatre Directors: William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1982); Joseph Hone, ed., John Butler Yeats: Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats and Others, 1869-1922 (London: Faber 1944; NY: Dutton 1946). Also, Richard J. Finneran, et al., eds., Letters to W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1977); Alan Himber, ed., The Letters of John Quinn to William Butler Yeats (Michigan: UMI Research Press 1983); Anna MacBride White and A. N. Jeffares, eds., The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938, Always Your Friend (London: Hutchinson; NY: Norton 1992; rep. Pimlico 1993), 544pp. ill. [incl. 372 letters by Maud Gonne and 30 by Yeats].

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DEFINITIVE EDITION: John S. Kelly ed., Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, [proposed] 12 vols. (Oxford 1986- ): Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Vol. I: 1865-1895, ed., J. S. Kelly [St. John’s Coll., Oxford] and Eric Domville [Assoc. Prof. Toronto Univ.] (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), 520pp.; Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Vol. III: 1901-1904, ed., Kelly and Ronald Schuchard (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1994), 836pp.; Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Vol. II: 1896-1900, ed. Warwick Gould, John Kelly, and Deirdre Toomey (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997), 790pp. [vols. appearing out of series].

Public Lectures
Curtis Bradford, ed., Yeats, ‘Modern Ireland’ [an address to American Audiences 1932-33], in Robin Skelton and David R. Clark, eds., Irish Renaissance: A Gathering of Essays, Memoirs, and Letters from the Massachusetts Review (Dublin: Dolmen 1965), pp.13-25; David R. Clark, W. B. Yeats, The Shadowy Waters [MS Version], ibid., pp.26-55; ‘Modern Ireland: An Address to American Audience’, 1932-33; in Irish Renaissance, ed., Robin Skelton and David R. Clark [from ‘Irish Gathering’, in Massechussets Review, 1964] (Dublin: Dolmen, 1965), pp.13-25); also Curtis Bradford, ed., ‘W. B. Yeats: Discoveries’, 2nd Series, Skelton and Clark, eds., op. cit., pp.80-89.

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Articles & reviews

See John P. Frayne, ed., Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, Vol. 1: First Reviews and Articles, 1886-1896 (London: Macmillan 1970)], & Frayne & Colton Johnson, eds., Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, Vol. 2: Reviews, articles, and Other Miscellaneous Prose, 1897-1939 (London: Macmillan 1975) [See tables of Contents listed infra, Vol. 1:& Vol. 2].

John P. Frayne, ed., Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, Vol. 1: First Reviews and Articles, 1886-1896 (London: Macmillan 1970)], CONTENTS: Acknowledgments, p.10; Preface, p.11; Introduction: I] Innisfree and Grub Street, p.19; 2] Twilight Propaganda, p.35; 3] Yeats as Critic-Reviewer, 60. ARTICLES & REVIEWS by W. B. YEATS: The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson - I (Irish Fireside, Oct. 9, 1886), p.81; The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson - II (Dublin University Review, Nov. 1886), p.87; The Poetry of R. D. Joyce (Irish Fireside, Nov. 27, Dec. 4, 1886), p.104; Clarence Mangan (Irish Fireside, March 12, 1887), p.114; Miss Tynan’s New Book (review of Shamrocks: Irish Fireside, July 9, 1887), p.119; The Prose and Poetry of Wilfred Blunt (review of Lore Sonnets of Proteus: United Ireland, Jan. 28, 1888), p.122; Irish Fairies, Ghosts, Witches, &c. (Lucifer, Jan. 15, 1889), p.130; Irish Wonders (review of D. R. McAnally’s Irish Wonders: Scots Observer, March 30, 1889), p.138; William Carleton (review of Red-Haired Man’s Wife: Scots Observer, Oct. 19, 1889), p.141; Popular Ballad Poetry of Ireland (Leisure Hour, Nov. 1889), p.146; Bardic Irelard (review of S. Bryant’s Celtic Ireland: Scots Observer, Jan. 4, 1890), p.162; Carleton as an Irish Historian (Nation, Jan. 11, 1890), p.166; Tales from the Twilight (review of Lady Wilde’s Ancient Cures: Scots Observer, March 1, 1890), p.169; Poetry and Science in Folk-Lore (Academy, Oct. 11, 1890), p.173; Irish Fairies (Leisure Hour, Oct. 1890), p.175; An Exhibition at William Morris’s (review, Providence Sunday Journal, Oct. 26, 1890), p.182; Irish Folk Tales (review of D. Hyde’s Beside the Fire: National Observer, Feb. 28, 1891), p.186; Plays by an Irish Poet (review of J. Todhunter’s A Sicilian Idyll: United Ireland, July 11, 189I), p.190; Clarence Mangan’s Love Affair (United Ireland, Aug. 22, 1891), p.194; A Reckless Century: Irish Rakes and Duellists (United Ireland, Sept. 12, 1891), p.198; Oscar Wilde’s Last Book (review of Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime: United Ireland, Sept. 26, 1891), p.202; The Young Ireland League (United Ireland, Oct. 3, 1891), p.206; A Poet We Have Neglected (review of W. Allingham’s collected poems: United Ireland, Dec. 12, 1891), p.208; The New ‘Speranza’ (article on Maud Gonne: United Ireland, Jan. 16, 1892), p.212; Dr. Todhunter’s Irish Poems (review of The Banshee: United Ireland, Jan. 23, 1892), p.215; Clovis Hug[h]es on Ireland (United Ireland, Jan. 30, 1892), p.218; The Irish Intellectual Capital: Where Is It? (United Ireland, May 14, 1892), p.222; Sight and Song (review of M. Field’s Sight and Song: Bookman, July 1892), p.225; Some New Irish Books (review of books by G. Savage-Armstrong, W. Larminie, and R. J. Reilly: United Ireland, July 23, 1892), p.228; The Irish Literary Society, London (United Ireland, July 30, 1892), p.230; Dublin Scholasticism and Trinity College (United Ireland, July 30, 1892), p.231; A New Poet (review of E. J. Ellis’s Fate in Arcadia: Bookman, Sept. 1892), p.234; ‘Noetry’ and Poetry (review of G. Savage-Armstrong’s collected poems: Bookman, Sept. 1892), p.237; New Irish Library Controversy (Freeman’s Journal Sept. 6-10, 1892), p.239; National Literary Society, Libraries Scheme (United Ireland, Sept. 24, 1892), p.244; Invoking the Irish Fairies (Irish Theosophist, Oct. 1892), p.245; Hopes and Fears for Irish Literature (United Ireland, Oct. 15, 1892), p.247; The Death of Oenone (review of Tennyson poems: Bookman, Dec. 1892), p.251; The De-Anglicizing of Ireland (United Ireland, Dec. 17, 1892), p.254; Ellen O’Leary (introduction to her poems, 1892), p.256; William Allingham (introduction to his poems, 1892), p.258; The Vision of MacConglinne (review of Kuno Meyer’s edition, Feb. 1893), p.261; The Wandering Jew (review of R. Buchanan’s poem: Bookman, April 1893), p.263; Nationality and Literature (United Ireland, May 27, 1893), p.266; A Bundle of Poets (review of A. H. Hallam’s poems, etc.: Speaker, July 22, 1893), p.276; The Writings of William Blake (review of L. Housman’s selection: Bookman, Aug., 1893), p.280; The Message of the Folk-lorist (article, and review of T. F. Dyer’s The Ghost World: Speaker, Aug. 19, 1893), p.283; Two Minor Lyrists (review of poems by J. D. Hosken and F. M. Ford: Speaker, Aug. 26, 1893), p.288; Old Gaelic Love Songs (review of D. Hyde’s Love Songs of Connacht: Bookman, Oct. 1893), p.292; The Ainu (review of B. D. Howard’s Life with Trans-Siberian Savages: Speaker, Oct. 7, 1893), p.295; Interview with Mr. W. B. Yeats (Irish Theosophist, Oct. 15, 1893), p.298; Reflections and Refractions (review of C. Weekes’s poems: Academy, Nov. 4, 1893), p.302; The Silenced Sister (United Ireland, Dec. 23 and Dec. 30, 1893), p.305; Michael Clancy, the Great Dhoul, and Death (The Old Country, Christmas 1893), p.310; Seen in Three Days (review of E. J. Ellis’s poem: Bookman, 7 Feb. 1894), p.317; Symbolical Drama in Paris (review of Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Axel: Bookman, April 1894), p.320; The Evangel of Folk-Lore (review of W. Larminie’s West Irish Folk Tales: Bookman, June 1894), p.326; The Rose of Shadow (Speaker, July 21, 1894), p.328; Some Irish National Books (review of books by M. MacDermott, E. M. Lynch, and C. O’Kelly: Bookman, Aug. 1894), p.332; A New Poet (review of A.E.’s Homeward Songs by the Way: Bookman, Aug. 1894), p.335; [The New Irish Library] (United Ireland, Sept. 1, 1894), p.339; An Imaged World (review of E. Garnett’s prose poems: Speaker, Sept. 8, 1894), p.344; The Stone and the Elixir (review of F. E. Garrett’s translation of Ibsen’s Brand: Bookman, Oct. 1894), p.344; Professor Dowden and Irish Literature - I (Daily Express, Dublin, Jan. 26, 1895, and Feb. 7, 1895), p.346; Battles Long Ago (review of S. O’Grady’s Coming of Cuculain: Bookman, Feb. 1895), p.350; Professor Dowden and Irish Literature - II (Dublin Daily Express, March 8, 1895), p.351; An Excellent Talker (review of Wilde’s Woman of No Importance: Bookman, March 1895), p.354; The Thirty Best Irish Books (United Ireland, March 16, 1895), p.355; Dublin Mystics (review of A E.’s Homward Songs by the Way [2nd 356 ed.] and J. Eglinton’s Two Essays on the Remnant: Bookman, May 1895); 356; The Story of Early Gaelic Literature (review of D. Hyde’s history: Bookman, June 1895), p.358; Irish National Literature, I: From Callanan to Carleton (Bookman, July 1895), p.359; The Three Sorrows of Story-telling (review of D. Hyde’s translations: Bookman, July 1895), p.364; Irish National Literature, II: Contemporary Prose Writers (Bookman, Aug. 1895), p.366; That Subtle Shade (review of Symon’s London Nights: Bookman, Aug. 1895), p.373; Irish National Literature, III: Contemporary Irish Poets (Bookman, 375 Sept. 1895), p.Irish National Literature, IV: A List of the Best Irish Books (Bookman, Oct. 1895), p.382; The Life of Patrick Sarsfield (review of J. Todhunter’s biography of Sarsfield: Bookman, Nov. 1895), p.387; The Binding of the Hair (Savoy, Jan. 1896), p.390; William Carleton (review of Carleton’s autobiography: Bookman, March 1896), p.394; Verlaine in 1894 (Savoy, April 1896), p.397; William Blake (review of R. Garnett’s book: Bookman, April 1896), p.400; An Irish Patriot (review of Lady Ferguson’s biography of Sir Samuel Ferguson: Bookman, May 1896), p.403; The New Irish Library (review of books by R. A. King, J. F. Taylor, and C. G. Duffy: Bookman, June 1896), p.406; Greek Folk Poesy (review of L. Garnett’s collection: Bookman, Oct. 1896), p.409; The Cradles of Gold (Senate, Nov. 1896), p.413; The Well at the World’s End (review of William Morris’s romance: Bookman, Nov. 1896), p.418; Miss Fiona Macleod as a Poet (review of Macleod’s [William Sharp’s] From the Hills of Dream: Bookman, Dec. 1896), p.421; Bibliography, 425.

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John P. Frayne & Colton Johnson, eds., Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, Vol. 2: Reviews, articles, and Other Miscellaneous Prose, 1897-1939 (London: Macmillan 1975). CONTENTS: List Of Illustrations, 11; Acknowledgement, 12; Preface 13. Introduction, 19. Young Ireland (review of Duffy’s Young Ireland: The Bookman, Jan. 1897) 33; Mr. John O’Leary (review of O’Leary’s Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism: The Bookman, Feb. 1897), p.35; The ’98 Centenary (United Ireland, March 20, 1897), p.37; Mr. Arthur Symons’ New Book (review of Amoris Victima: The Bookman, April, 1897), p.38; Miss Fiona Macleod (review of Macleod’s [William Sharp’s] Spiritual Tales, Tragic Romances and Barbaric Tales: The Sketch, April 28, 1897), p.42; The Treasure of the Humble (review of Maeterlinck’s The Treasure of the Humble: The Bookman, July, 1897), p.45; Mr. Standish O’Grady’s Flight of the Eagle (review: The Bookman, Aug. 1897), p.47; Aglavaine and Selysette (review of Maeterlinck’s Aglavaine and Selysette: The Bookman, Sept. 1897), p.51; The Tribes of Danu (The New Review, Nov. 1897), p.54; Three Irish Poets (article on A.E. Nora Hopper and Lionel Johnson: The Irish Homestead, Dec. 1897), p.70; The Prisoners of the Gods (Nineteenth Century, Jan. 1898), p.74; Mr. Lionel Johnson’s Poems (review of Ireland, with Other Poems: The Bookman, Feb. 1898), p.88; Mr. Rhys’ Welsh Ballads (review: The Bookman, April, 1898), p.91; The Broken Gates of Death (Fortnightly Review, April, 1898), p.94; Le Mouvement Celtique: Fiona Macleod (article with a review of The Laughter of Peterkin: L’Irlande Libre, April I, 1898), p.108; ‘A.E.’s’ Poems (review of The Earth Breath: The Sketch, April 6, 1898), p.111; Le Mouvement Celtique: 11. M. John O’Leary (L’Irlande Libre, June 1, 1898), p.113; Mr. Lionel Johnson and Certain Irish Poets (Dublin Daily Express, Aug. 27, 1898), p.115; Celtic Beliefs About the Soul (review of Meyer’s and Nutt’s translation of The Voyage of Bran: The Bookman, Sept. 1898), p.118; The Poetry of ‘A.E.’ (Dublin Daily Express, Sept. 3, 1898), p.121; The Poems and Stories of Miss Nora Hopper (Dublin Daily Express, Sept. 24, 1898), p.124; John Eglinton and Spiritual Art (Dublin Daily Express, Oct. 29, 1898), p.128; A Symbolic Artist and the Coming of Symbolic Art (The Dome, Dec. 1898), p.132; Important Announcement - Irish Literary Theatre (Dublin Daily Express, Jan. 12, 1899), p.137; The Irish Literary Theatre (Dublin Daily Express, Jan. 14, 1899), p.139; High Crosses of Ireland (Dublin Daily Express, Jan. 28, 1899), p.142; Notes on Traditions and Superstitions (Folk-Lore, March, 1899), p.145; The Academic Class and the Agrarian Revolution (Dublin Daily Express, March 11, 1899), p.148; Irish Literary Theatre. Lecture by Mr. W. B. Yeats (Delivered April 23, 1899 and reported in The Irish Literary Society Gazette, June, 1899), p.153; Plans and Methods (Beltaine, May, 1899), p.159; The Irish Literary Theatre (Literature, May 6, 1899), p.162; The Dominion of Dreams (review of MacLeod’s The Dominion of Dreams: The Bookman, July, 1899), p.164; Ireland Bewitched (Contemporary Review, Sept. 1899), p.167; The Literary Movement in Ireland (North American Review, Dec. 1899), p.184; The Irish Literary Theatre (The Irish Literary Society Gazette, Jan. 1900), p.196; The Irish Literary Theatre, 1900 (The Dome, Jan. 1900), p.198; Plans and Methods (Beltaine, Feb. 1900), p.201; ‘Maive’ and Certain Irish Beliefs (Beltaine, Feb. 1900), p.204; A Correction (Dublin Daily Express, March 30, 1900), p.207; ‘The Last Feast of the Fianna’, ‘Maive’ and ‘The Bending of the Bough’ in Dublin (Beltaine, April, 1900), p.209; Noble and Ignoble Loyalties (The United Irishawan, April 21, 1900), p.211; The Freedom of the Press in Ireland (The Speaker, July 7, 1900), p.213; Irish Fairy Beliefs (review of Deeny’s Peasant Lore from Gaelic Ireland: The Speaker, July 14, 1900), p.216; Irish Witch Doctors (Fortnightly Review, Sept. 1900), p.219; Irish Language and Irish Literature (The Leader, Sept. 1, 1900), p.236; The Great Enchantment (All Ireland Review, Sept. 22, 1900), p.242; Mr. Yeats’s Jug (The Leader, Nov. 10, 1900), p.243; A Postscript to a Forthcoming Book of Essays by Various Writers (All Ireland Review, Dec. 1, 1900), p.244; On a Letter to the Daily Mail (Academy, May 4, 1901), p.246; At Stratford-on-Avon (The Speaker, May 11, 1901), p.247; A Correction (Dublin Daily Express, Aug. 5, 1901), p.252; About an ‘Interview’ (Free Lance, Sept. 21, 1901), p.253; John Eglinton (The United Irishman, Nov. 9, 1901), p.255; Literature and the Conscience (The United Irishman, Dec. 7, 1901), p.262; Favourite Books of 1901 (Academy, Dec. 7, 1901), p.264; Egyptian Plays (review of the performance of Farr’s and Shakespear’s The Beloved of Hathor and The Shrine of the Golden Hawk: The Star, Jan. 23, 1902), p.265; Away (Fortnightly Review, April, 1902), p.267; Mr. Yeats’ New Play (interview about Cathleen ni Houlihan: The United Irishman, April 5, 1902), p.283; The Acting at St. Teresa’s Hall (notes on performance of A.E.’s ‘Deirdre’, and Cathleen ni Houlihan: The United Irishman, April 12, 1902), p.284; The Gaelic Movement and the Parliamentary Party (The Echo, April 25, 1902), p.286; The Acting at St. Teresa’s Hall (The United Irishman, April 26, 1902), p.291; Mr. Churton Collins on Blake (The Times Literary Supplement, May 30, 1902), p.p.293; The Hill of Tara (The Times, June 27, 1902), p.294; The Freedom of the Theatre (The United Irishman, Nov. 1, 1902), p.295; A Canonical Book (review of Lady Gregory’s Poets and Dreamers: The Bookman, May, 1903), p.299; Irish Plays and Players (Academy, May 16, 1903), p.303; The King’s Visit (Freeman’s Journal, July 13, 1903), p.304; Flaubert and the National Library (The Irish Times, Oct. 8, 1903), p.305; The Irish National Theatre and Three Sorts of Ignorance (The United Irishman, Oct. 24, 1903), p.306; We are Unlike the English in All Except Language (The New York Daily News, March 4, 1904), p.308; Emmet the Apostle of Irish Liberty (The Gaelic American, March 5, 1904), p.310; The Best Book from Ireland (The Daily News, May 11, 1904), p.327; The Irish National Theatre (The Gael, June, 1904), p.328; Note on the Performing Rights of his Plays (The United Irishman, June 4, 1904), p.329; Mr. George Moore and the Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin Daily Express, Dec. 7, 1904), p.330; J. M. Synge’s ‘The Shadow of the Glen’ (The United Irishman, Jan. 28, 1905), p.331; J. M. Synge’s ‘The Shadow of the Glen’ (The United Irishman, Feb. 4, 1905), p..334; J. M. Synge’s ‘The Shadow of the Glen’ (The United Irishanan, Feb. 11, 1905), p.336; America and the Arts (The Metropolitan Magagine, April, 1905), p.338; The Watts Pictures (Dublin Daily Express, Jan. 26, 1906), p.342; A Note on ‘The Mineral Workers’, and Other Notes (The Arrow, Oct. 20, 1906), p.345; Notes (Samhain, Dec. 1906), p.347; The Controversy over the Playboy (The Arrow, Feb. 23, 1907), p.348; Notes (The Arrow, June I, 1907), p.353; A Corinthian Club Dinner (The Leader, Nov. 30, 1907), p.355; W. Fay’s Resignation (The Dublin Evening Mail, Jan. 14, 1908), p.357; The Abbey Theatre (The Dublin Evening Mail, Jan. 16, 1908), p.358; A Correction (The Dublin Evening Mail, Jan. 17, 1908), p.360; The Abbey Theatre (The Dublin Evening Mail, Jan. 18, 1908), p.361; Mr. W. B. Yeats and ‘The Piper’ (Dublin Daily Express, Feb. 17, 1908), p.361; Mr. W. Fay and the Abbey Theatre (The Dublin Evening Mail, May 21, 1908) 363; British Association Visit to the Abbey Theatre (special Abbey Theatre programs; Sept. 4 and Sept. 8, 1908), p.364; Events (Samhain, Nov. 1908), p.370; The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, Statement by the Directors (The Arrow, Aug. 25, 1909), p.377; The Irish National Theatre (The Times, June 16, 1910), p.380; The Art of the Theatre (The New Age, June 16, 1910), p.382; The Tragic Theatre (The Mask, Oct. 1910), p.384; Abbey Theatre, New System of Scenery (Evening Telegraph, Jan. 9, 1911), p.393; The Folly of Argument (The Manchester Playgoer, June, 1911), p.394; The Theatre of Beauty (Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 11, 1911), p.397; The Story of the Irish Players (Chicago Sunday Record-Herald, Feb. 4, 1912), p.402; Stage Scenery (The Times, Sept. 13, 1912), p.405; Dublin Fanaticism (The Irish Worker, Nov. 1, 1913), p.405; Mr. W. B. Yeats and Ghosts (The Irish Times, Nov. 3, 1913), p.407; The Playboy (The Times, Dec. I, 1913), p.408; ‘The Playboy’ at Liverpool (The Times, Dec. 4, 1913), p.409; Mr. W. S. Blunt (The Times, Jan. 20, 1914), p.410; Poetry’s Banquet (Poetry, April, 1914), p.412; A Chance for the National Gallery (The Observer, Dec. 10, 1916), p.414; Sir Hugh Lane’s Pictures (The Observer, Dec. 17, 1916), p.416; Sir Hugh Lane’s Pictures (The Morning Post, Dec. 19, 1916), p.419; Sir Hugh Lane’s Pictures (Spectator, Dec. 23, 1916), p.420; The Hugh Lane Pictures (The Observer, Dec. 24, 1916), p.423; Sir Hugh Lane’s Pictures (The Times, Dec. 28, 1916), p.426; Dublin and the Hugh Lane Pictures (The Observer, Feb. 3, 1918), p.428; Major Robert Gregory (The Observer, Feb. 17, 1918), p.429; Sir Hugh Lane and the National Gallery (The Times Literary Supplement, March 31, 1921), p.431; From Democracy to Authority (The Irish Times, Feb. 16, 1924), p.433; A Memory of Synge (The Irish Statesman, July 5, 1924), p.436; To All Artists and Writers (To-Morrow, Aug. 1924), p.438; Compulsory Gaelic (The Irish The Irish Statesman, Aug. 2, 1924), p.439; An Undelivered Speech (The Irish The Irish Statesman, March 14, 1925), p.449; The Bounty of Sweden (The Sunday Times, Aug. 9, 1925), p.453; The Child and the State (The Irish Statesman, Dec. 5 and 12, 1925), p.454; The Need for Audacity of Thought (The Dial, Feb. 1926), p.461; A Defence of the Abbey Theatre (The Dublin Magagine, April June, 1926), p.465; Memorial to the Late T. W. Lyster (Yeats’s speech at the dedication of the Lyster memorial, published in June, 1926), p.470; The Hugh Lane Pictures (The Times, July 29, 1926), p.472; Sympathy with Mrs. O’Higgins (The Irish Times, July 14, 1927), p.476; The Censorship and St. Thomas Aquinas (The Irish The Irish Statesman, Sept. 22, 1928), p.477; The Irish Censorship (The Spectator, Sept. 29, 1928), p.480; Wagner and the Chapel of the Grail (The Irish Statesman, Oct. 13, 1928), p.485; Ireland, 1921-1931 (Spectator, Jan. 30, 1932), p.486; Gypsy Prize Winners, 1932 (The Gypsy, March, 1933), p.490; The Great Blasket (review of Maurice O’Sullivan’s Twenty Years A-Growing: Spectator, June 2, 1933), p.492; The Growth of a Poet (The Listener, April 4, 1934), p.495; Abbey Theatre and the Free State (The Sunday Times, Oct. 7, 1934), p.499; Poems: by Margot Ruddock with Prefatory Notes on the Author (The London Mercury, July, 1936), p.501; ‘I Became an Author’ (The Listener, Aug. 4, 1938), p.506; APPENDIX to VOL. I: Poems by Miss Tynan (Dublin Evening Herald, Jan. 2, 1892), p.511; The Chain of Gold. By Standish O’Grady (unsigned review: The Bookman, Nov. 1895), p.515; ERRATA to VOL. I, 516; INDEX to VOLS. I & II, 517.

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Representative Irish Tales, ed. W. B. Yeats [rep. edn.] with Foreword by Mary Helen Thuente (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1979; rep. 1991), 364pp. CONTENTS: Edgeworth, Castle Rackent. Banims: The Stolen Sheep (printed in A Bit O’ Writing, 1838); The Mayor of Wind-Gap (sep. scenes from The Mayor of Wind-Gap, 1834); Carleton, Wildgoose Lodge (Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 1830-33, prev. rep. in Stories from Carleton; note deletion of add. paras. of information on background); Condy Cullan and the Gauger (‘