William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Life

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).

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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Bibliographical details
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 (‘Condy Cullen or the Exciseman Defeated’, in Barney Brady’s Goose; The Hedge School, the Three Tasks, and other Irish Tales [n.d., n.p.; personal copy of W. B. Yeats], also as ‘Condy Cullen, or the Irish Rake, in Tales and Sketches, 1845); The Curse (excerpt from ‘Party Fight and Funeral’, in Traits and Stories); The Battle of the Factions (from Traits and Stories). Vol. II: Lover: Barny O’Reirdon, the Navigator (from Legends and Stories of Ireland, 1st ser. 1831); Paddy the Piper (from Legends and Stories of Ireland, 1st ser. 1831; admitted in a note by Lover to be by a friend). [William Maginn:] Father Tom and the Pope (printed anon. in Blackwood’s, 43, May 1838, pp.614-17; actually by Ferguson as shown in Mary Ferguson’s Sir Sam. Ferguson and the Ireland of his Day, 1895; episode of kissing of Pope’s housekeeper here omitted). Croker, The Confessions of Tom Bourke (from Fairy Legends and Folk Tales ... [&c.], Vol. I, 1825; prev. rep. in Fairy and Folk Tales, 1888);. Griffin: The Knight of the Sheep (from Tales of My Neighbourhood, 1835); The Death of the Huntsman (excerpt from The Collegians, 1825). Lever, Trinity College (excerpt from Charles O’Malley, 1841). Kickham, The Pig-Driving Peelers (excerpt from For the Old Land, 1886); Mulholland, The Hungry Death (unpub. and sent to Yeats by Father Russell); Anon.: The Jackdaw (orig. in The Royal Hibernian Tales, C. M. Warren c.1829; prev. rep. in Fairy and Folk Tales, 1888); Darby Doyle’s Visit to Quebec (Dublin Penny Journal, 1 No. 24, 8 Dec. 1832.) [Notes from Thuente, ‘A List of Sources’, pp.21-23.

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Essays and Introductions (1961). CONTENTS, Introduction, pp.vii-xi; ESSAYS, I: Ideas of Good and Evil, What Is Popular Poetry? [3]; Speaking To The Psaltery [13]; Magic [18]; The Happiest of The Poets [53]; The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry [65]; At Stratford-on-Avon [96]; William Blake and the Imagination [111]; William Blake And His Illustrations to the Divine Comedy [116]; Sybolism in Painting [146]p The Symbolism of Poetry [153]; The Theatre [165]; The Celtic Element in Literature [173]; The Autumn of The Body [189]; The Moods [195]; The Body of the Father Christian Rosencrux [196]; The Return of Ulysses [198]; Ireland and the Arts [203]; The Galway Plains [211]; Emotion of Multitude [215] II: The Cutting of an Agate, Certain Noble Plays of Japan [221]; The Tragic Theatre [138]; Poetry and Tradition [246]; Discoveries [261]; Preface to the First Edition of The Well of The Saints [298]; Preface to the first edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations [306]; J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time [311]; John Shawe-Taylor [343]; Art and Ideas [346]; Edmund Spenser [356]. LATER ESSAYS AND INTRODUCTIONS. Gitanjali [387]; Bishop Berkeley [396]; My Friend’s Book (A.E.’s Songs and Fountains) [412]; Prometheus Unbound [419]; An Indian Monk [426]; Louis Lambert [438]; The Holy Mountain [448]; The Mandukya Upanishad [474]; Parnell [486]; Modern Poetry [491]; A General Introduction for My Work [509] An Introduction for My Plays [527-30; END]. frontispiece Portrait of Yeats by John Butler Yeats NGI]; photo port. of Yeats by Howard Coster [facing p.385].

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The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1960), 705pp. CONTENTS: The Countess Cathleen (1892), ded. ‘To Maud Gonne' [1]; The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), ded. ‘To Florence Farr' [51]; Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902) [73]; The Pot of Broth (1904) [ 89]; The King's Threshold (1904) [105]; The Shadowy Waters (1911) [145]; Deirdre (1907) [169]; At the Hawk's Well (1917) [205]; The Green Helmet (1910) [221]; On Baile's Strand (1904) [245]; ]; The Only Jealousy of Emer (1919) [279]; The Hour-Glass (1914) [297]; The Unicorn From The Stars (1908) [325]; The Player Queen (1922) [385]; The Dreaming of The Bones (1919')[431]; Calvary (1920) [447]; The Cat and the Moon (1926) [459]; Sophocles' King Oedipus (1928) [473]; Sophocles' Oedipus At Colonus (1934) [519]; The Resurrection (1931) [577]; The Words upon the Window-Pane (1934). 595]; A Full Moon in March (1935) [619]; The King of the Great Clock Tower (1935) [631]; The Herne's Egg (1938) [643]; Purgatory (1939) [679]; The Death of Cuchulain (1939) [691]; [FRONTISPIECE]; [W. B. YEATS. from a drawing by J. S. SARGENT, R.A.]; [vi].

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Robert Welch, ed., with intro. & notes, W. B. Yeats, Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth (Penguin Books 1993), 458pp.; Acknowledgements [xi]; A Textual and Editorial Note [xiii]; Abbreviations [xvii]; Introduction [xix]. CONTENTS: I: Introduction to Fairy and Folk: Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) [1]; 2: ‘The Irish Fairies', from Fairy and Folk Tales of the frisb Peasantry (1888) [8]; 3: ‘Irish Fairies, Ghosts, Witches', from Lucifer (1889) [19]; 4: ‘Scots and Irish Fairies',, from the Scots Observer (11889) [26]; 5: ‘Irish Wonders', from the Scots Observer (1889) [30]; 6: ‘Village Ghosts', from the Scots Observer (1889) [34; 7: ‘Kidnappers', from the Scots Observer (1889) [39]; 8: ‘Columkille and Rosses, from the Scots Observer (1889) [44]; 9 ‘Bardic Ireland', from the Scots Observer (1890) [50]; 10: ‘Tales from the Twilight, from the Scots Observer (1890) [55]; 11: ‘Irish Fairies', from the Leisure Hour (1890) [60]; 31: ‘The Thick Skull of the Fortunate', from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [127]; 32: ‘The Religion of a Sailor', from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [129]; 33: ‘Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory', from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [131]; 34: ‘The Eaters of Precious Stones', from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [132]; 35: ‘The Golden Age', from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [133]; 36: ‘The Evangel of Folk-Lore, from the Bookman (1894) [135]; 37: ‘The Tribes of Danu', from the New Review (1897) [138]; 38: ‘The Prisoners of the Gods', from the Nineteenth Century (1898) [155]; 39: ‘The Broken Gates of Death', from the Fortnightly Review (1898) [172]; 40: ‘The Celtic Element in Literature', from Cosmopolis (1898) [189]; 41: ‘Celtic Beliefs about the Soul', from the Bookman (1898) [201]; 42: ‘The Academic Class and the Agrarian Revolution', from the Daily Express (1899) [203]; 43: ‘A Note on "The Hosting of the Sidhe"', from The Wind Among the Reeds (:1899) [208]; 44: ‘A Note On "The Host of the Air"', from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) [212]; 45: ‘A Note On "The Valley of the Black Pig"', from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) [216]; 46: ‘Ireland Bewitched', from the Contemporary Review (1899) [219]; 47: ‘Dust Hath Closed Helen's Eye', from the Dome (1899) [240]; 48: ‘Maeve and Certain Irish Beliefs', from Beltaine (1900) [147]; 49: ‘Irish Fairy Beliefs', from the Speaker (1900) [250]; 50: ‘Irish Witch Doctors', from the Fortnightly Review (1900) [253]; 51: ‘To D. P. Moran's Leader' (1900) [275]; 52: ‘The Fool of Faery', from the Kensington (1901) [280]; 53: ‘By The Roadside', from An Claidheamh Soluis (1901) [285]; 54: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight', I, from the Speaker (1902) [288]; 55: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight', II , from the Speaker (1902) [291]; 56: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight', III, from the Speaker (1902) [295]; 57: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight', IV, from the Speaker (1902) [299]; 58: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight', V, from the Speaker (1902) [305]; 59: ‘Away', from the Fortnightly Review (1902) [308]; 60: Preface to Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) [327]; 61: ‘Dreams that have No Moral', from The Celtic Twilight (1902) [335]; 62: ‘Poets and Dreamers', from the New Liberal Review (1903) [344]; 63: ‘A Canonical Book', from the Bookman (1903) [348]; 64: Preface to Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men (1904) [352]; 65: ‘Witches And Wizards And Irish Folk-Lore', from Lady Gregory's Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920) [364]; 66: ‘Compulsory Gaelic: A Dialogue', from the Irish Statesman (1924) [374]; 67: Introduction to The Midnight Court (1926), 384]; 68: ‘The Great Blasket', from the Spectator (1933) [389]; NOTES [392]; GLOSSARY [448]; APPENDIX: Contents of the 1893 and 1902 Editions of The Celtic Twilight [456].

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George Mills Harper, gen. ed. Yeats’s Vision Papers: Yeats’s Vision Papers: Volume I, The Automatic Script 5 November 1917-18 June 1918, ed. Steve Adams, Barbara Frieling & Sandra Sprayberry (Iowa UP 1992); Yeats’s Vision Papers, Volume II: The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918-29 March 1920, ed. Adams, Frieling & Sprayberry (Iowa UP 1992); Yeats’s Vision Papers, Volume III: Sleep and Dream Notebooks & Vision Notebooks 1 & 2 [Card File], ed. Robert Martinich & Margaret Mills Harper (Iowa UP 1992). [Incorporating 3,600pp. original mss made at 450 sittings over 20 months.]

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Criticism

Annual Listing of Monographs & Essays

1916-1939
• Horatio Sheafe Krans, William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival (NY: Macmillan 1904) [var. McClure Press n.d.].
• J. M. Hone, William Butler Yeats: The Poet in Contemporary Ireland [Irishmen of Today] (Dublin & London: Maunsel 1916), Do., facs. rep. NY: Haskell Hse. Publ. [q.d.]), 134pp.
• William Butler Yeats [Famous Irish Lives Ser.] (Dublin: Talbot Press 1935)

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  1940-1949
• Stephen Gwynn, ed., Scattering Branches Tributes to the Memory of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1940).
• Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (London: OUP 1941; rep. 1967).
• J. M. Hone, W. B. Yeats 1865-1939 (London: Macmillan 1942; NY 1943), 535pp. with index; Do. (2nd edn. 1962).
• V. K. Narayana, The Development of W. B. Yeats (1943) [review by George Orwell in Sonia Orwell & Ian Angus, eds., Collected Essays, Vol. 2., 1968, pp.312-17].
• Peter Ure, Towards a Mythology: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (Liverpool UP 1946).
• Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks (London: Macmillan 1948, 1949; rev. edn. 1962; new edn. NY: W. W. Norton & Co. 1979), ix, 336pp.
• A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet (Yale Univ. Press 1949), viii, 365pp.; 2nd Edn. (London : Routledge & K. Paul 1962), viii, 365, 4 pls.; 3rd. Edn. (London: Cathie Kyle; Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996), x, 338pp.
• Donald A. Stauffer, The Golden Nightingale: Essays on Some Principles of Poetry in the Lyrics of William Butler Yeats (NY: Macmillan 1949).
• T[homas] R. Henn, The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of Yeats (London: Methuen 1950; rev. edn. 1965), 375pp.
• J. Hall & M. Steinmann, eds., The Permanence of Yeats: Selected Criticism (London: Macmillan 1950; 1961) [incls. W. H. Auden, ‘Yeats as an Example’, et al.; A. N. Jeffares, ‘Yeats and His Method of Writing Verse’].
• George Whalley, ‘Yeats and Broadcasting', in Allan Wade, ed., A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats (London: Hart-Davis 1951), pp.467-77.
• Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats (London: Macmillan 1954; rep. Faber 1964; 1983), ix, 343pp.
• Hazard Adams, Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision (Ithaca NY: Cornell UP 1955; reiss. NY: Russell & Russell 1968) 328pp.
• Frank Kermode, Romantic Image (London: Routledge & Paul 1957).
• George B. Saul, Prolegomena to the Study of Yeats’s Plays (Philadephia 1958).
• John Unterecker, A Reader’s Guide to W. B. Yeats (NY: Noonday 1959).
• Thomas R. Whitaker, Swan and Shadow: Yeats’s Dialogue with History (N. Carolina UP 1959; rep. 1964), and Do., [2nd edn.] (Washington: Catholic University of America 1989).
• Monk Gibbon, The Masterpiece and the Man, Yeats As I Knew Him (1959).
• F[rancis] A. C. Wilson, W. B. Yeats and Tradition (London: Gollancz 1958), 349pp.

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  1960-1969
• Wilson, Yeats’s Iconography (London: Gollancz 1960), 286pp.
• Thomas Parkinson, W. B. Yeats, Self-Critic: A Study of His Early Verse (Berkeley: California UP 1961).
• B. L. Reid, William Butler Yeats: The Lyric of Tragedy (Oklahoma UP 1961).
• A. G. Stock, W. B. Yeats, His Poetry and Thought (Cambridge UP 1961).
• Giorgio Melchiori, The Whole Mystery of Art: Pattern into Poetry in the Work of W. B. Yeats (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960).
• Morton Irvine Seiden, William Butler Yeats, The Poet as Mythmaker (East Lansing: Michigan State UP 1962).
• Jon Stallworthy, Between the Lines: W. B. Yeats’s Poetry in the Making (OXford: Clarendon Press 1963).
• Oliver St John Gogarty, W. B. Yeats, A Memoir (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1963).
• Peter Ure, Yeats the Playwright: A Commentary on Character and Design in the Major Plays (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1963).
• Helen H. Vendler, Yeats’s ‘Vision’ and the Later Plays (Harvard UP 1963).
• Denis Donoghue, ed., The Integrity of Yeats (Cork: Mercier Press 1964).
• Parkinson, W. B. Yeats: The Later Poetry (Berkeley 1964; Cambridge UP 1965).
• Edward Engelberg, The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats’s Aesthetic (Toronto UP 1964; enl. edn. 1974); 2nd [rev.] edn. (Washington: Catholic University of America Press 1988), [viii]-xv, 284pp., ill. pls.
• D. E. S. Maxwell & Suheil B. Bushrui, eds., Centenary Essays on the Art of W. B. Yeats (Ibadan UP [1965]) [incl. Ian Fletcher, ‘Yeats and Lissadell’, pp.67-77; et al.].
• Bushrui, Yeats’s Verse Plays, The Revisions 1900-1910 (1965).
• Shotaro Oshima, W. B. Yeats and Japan (Hokuseido Press) [section four includes interviews with Yeats in 1938; also with Jack Yeats, Lolly Yeats, and Junzo Sato].
• T. R. Henn, W. B. Yeats and the Poetry of War [Warton Lecture 1965] (OUP 1965).
• David R Clark, W. B. Yeats and the Theatre of Desolate Reality (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1965), rev. edn. with Rosalind Clarke (Washington Catholic Univ. of American Press 1993).
• Corinna Salvadori, Yeats, Poet and Castiglione Courtier (Dublin: Allen Figgis 1965).
• Leonard E. Nathan, The Tragic Drama of William Butler Yeats: Figures in a Dance (Columbia UP 1965).
• Peter Faulkner, Yeats and the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1965).
• Robin Skelton & Ann Saddlemeyer, eds., The World of W. B. Yeats, Essays in Perspective (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1965).
• Denis Donoghue & J. R. Mulryne, An Honoured Guest (London: Edward Arnold 1965), [8],196pp.
• C. Salvatori, Yeats and Castiglione, Poet and Courtier (Dublin: Figgis 1965).
• A. N. Jeffares and K. W. Cross, eds., In Excited Reverie: A Centenary Tribute to William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 (London: Macmillan 1965).
• Alex Zwerdling, Yeats and the Heroic Ideal (London: Peter Owen; NY: New York UP 1965), 196pp.
• Liam Miller, ed. and intro., The Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers, with a Preface by John Stallworthy (Dublin: Dolmen; London: OUP; Chester Springs, US: Dufour Edns. 1968), 523pp. [contribs. incl. Edwin Malins, Raymond Lister; Russell K. Alspach; Giles W. J. Telfer; Peter Faulkner; Hiro Ishabashi; George Brandon Saul; George Mills Harper; John Unterecker; Richard Ellmann.].
• Curtis B. Bradford, Yeats at Work (Southern Illinois UP 1965), 407pp. [i.m. Ho. O. White 1885-1963].
• Brian Farrington, Malachi Stilt-Jack, A Study of W. B. Yeats and His Work (London: [James] Connolly Publ. 1965).
• Balachandra Rajan, W. B. Yeats: A Critical Introduction [Hutchinson Univ. Library] (London: Hutchinson 1965), 207pp.
• Donald Torchiana, W. B. Yeats and Georgian Ireland (Northwestern UP 1966).
• Michael Yeats, ‘W. B. Yeats and Irish folk-song’, in Southern Folklore Quarterly, XXX (2 June, 1966), pp.153-78.
• William M. Murphy, ‘Father and Son, The Early Education of W. B. Yeats’, in Review of English Literature, ed. A. N. Jeffares (1967), pp.76-96.
• Daniel Hoffmann, Barbarous Knowledge: Myths in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir (OUP 1967).
• Patrick J. Keane, ed., William Butler Yeats: A Collection of Criticism [Contemp. Studies in Lit. Ser.] (NY: McGraw-Hill 1973), v, 151pp.
• Joseph Ronsley, Yeats’s Autobiography: Life as Symbolic Pattern (Harvard UP 1968).
• John Rees Moore, ‘Artifices for Eternity: Joyce and Yeats', Éire-Ireland, 3, 4 (Winter 1968), pp.66-73.
• James H. O Brien, ‘Self and Soul in Yeats's The Winding Stair', Éire-Ireland, 3, 1 (Spring 1968), pp.23-39.
• Jack Wayne Weaver, ‘An Exile Returned: Moore and Yeats in Ireland', Éire-Ireland, 3, 1 (Spring 1968), pp.40-47.
• Ben L. Collins, ‘A Note on the Historicity of Yeats's Stanzaic Pattern in “Easter 1916”', Éire-Ireland, 3, 1 (Spring 1968), pp.129-31.
• Marilyn Gaddis Rose, ‘Sub Rosa: The Writings of Jack B. Yeats', Éire-Ireland, 3, 2 (Summer 1968), pp. 37-47.
• Robert Beum, The Poetic of William Butler Yeats (NY: Ungar 1969).
• Hugh Kenner, ed., Yeats, Twentieth-Century Views (NY: Prentice Hall 1969).
• Allen Grossman, Poetic Knowledge in the Early Yeats: A Study of “The Wind Among the Reeds” (Virginia UP 1969)
• Oliver Snoddy, ‘Yeats and Irish in the Theatre', Éire-Ireland, 4, 1 (Spring 1969), pp.39-45.
• Janet Frank Egelson, ‘Christ and Cuchulain: Interrelated Archetypes of Divinity and Heroism in Yeats', Éire-Ireland, 4, 1 (Spring 1969), pp. 76-85.
• Robert W. Caswell, ‘Yeats's Odd Swan at Coole', Éire-Ireland, 4, 2 (Summer 1969), pp. 81-86.
• Meredith Cary, ‘Yeats and Moore: An Autobiographical Conflict', Éire-Ireland, 4, 3 (Autumn 1969), pp.94-109.
• Brian John, ‘Yeats's “Crazy Jane Reproved”', Éire-Ireland, 4, 4 (Winter 1969), pp.52-55.
• Jon Stallworthy, Vision and Revision in Yeats’s Last Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969).

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  1970-1979
• George Bornstein, Yeats and Shelley (Chicago UP 1970), xv, 239pp.
• Bernard Levine, The Dissolving Image: The Spiritual-Esthetic Development of W. B. Yeats (Wayne State UP 1970).
• Phillip L. Marcus, Yeats and the Beginning of the Irish Renaissance (Cornell UP 1970; 2nd edn. NY: Syracuse UP 1987).
• Ben L. Collins, ‘Joyce's Use of Yeats and of Irish History: A Reading of “A Mother”', in Éire-Ireland, 5, 1 (Spring 1970), pp.45-66.
• Marilyn Caddis Rose, ‘The Kindred Vistas of W. B. and Jack B. Yeats', Éire-Ireland, 5, 1 (Spring 1970), pp.67-79.
• Harold Bloom, Yeats (OUP 1970; London: Fontana 1971), 500pp., front. ill. by Jack Coughlin].
• Denis Donoghue, Yeats [Fontana Modern Masters; intro. by Frank Kermode] (London: Fontana/Collins 1971), xiii, 160pp.
• Rupin W. Desai, Yeats’s Shakespeare (Northwestern UP 1971).
• Roger McHugh, ‘The Municipal Gallery Revisited’, in Brian O’Doherty, The Irish Imagination 1959-1971 [Rosc Exhib. Cat.] (1971).
• Thomas F. Parkinson, W. B. Yeats Self-Critic: A Study of His Early Verse [orig. 1961] with The Later Poetry [orig. 1964] (California UP 1971).
• James [John] Rees Moore, Masks of Love and Death: Yeats as Dramatist (Ithaca NY: Cornell UP 1971).
• Terry Eagleton, ‘History and Myth in Yeats’s “Easter 1916”, Essays in Criticism, 21,. 3 (1971), pp.248-60.
• Patrick Holland, ‘Yeats and the Musician's Art in “Last Poems”', Éire-Ireland, 6, 4 (Winter 1971), pp.49-64.
• A. N. Jeffares, ‘Yeats’, in Seán Lucy, Irish Poets in English (Mercier 1972), pp.105-117;
• W. H. Pritchard, W. B. Yeats, A Critical Anthology (Penguin 1972).
• Daniel Albright, The Myth Against Myth: A Study of Yeats’s Imagination in Old Age (London: OUP 1972).
• Kathleen Raine, Yeats, Tarot, and the Golden Dawn (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1972).
• William Robert Rodgers, Irish Literary Portraits: W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, George Moore, George Bernard Shaw, Oliver St John Gogarty, F.R. Higgins, A.E. [broadcast conversations with those who knew them] (London: BBC 1972).
• Mary Helen Thuente, W. B. Yeats and Nineteenth-century Irish Literary Tradition (Kansas UP 1973) [microfilm/thesis].
• D. A. Harris, Yeats, Coole Park & Ballylee (Johns Hopkins UP 1974).
• Reg Skene, The Cuchulain Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1974), 278pp.
• Peter Ure, Yeats and Anglo-Irish literature: Critical Essays, ed., C. J. Rawson (Liverpool UP 1974).
• C. L. Wrenn, W. B. Yeats: A Literary Study (FLE 1973) [ltd. edn. 150].
• Harbans Rai Bachchan, W. B. Yeats and Occultism: A Study of his Works in Relation to Indian Lore, the Cabbala, Swedenborg, Boehme and Theosophy (Delhi: Luzac 1974; NY: Samuel Weiser Inc. 1974), xxii, 296pp.
• Kathleen Raine, ‘Death-in-Life and Life-in-Death’: ‘Cuchulain Comforted’ and ‘News for the Delphic Oracle’ (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1974), 64pp., incl. 20 ills.
• George Mills Harper, ‘Go Back to Where You Belong’: Yeats’s Return from Exile (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1974), 44pp.
• George Mills Harper, Yeats’s Golden Dawn: The Influence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on the Life and Art of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1974), 322pp.; rep. edn. (Wellingborough: Aquarius Press [1987]), pb., 322pp.
• Colin Meir, The Ballads and Songs of W. B. Yeats: The Anglo-Irish Heritage in Subject and Style (London: Macmillan 1974; rep. 1983), 141pp.
• George Mills Harper, ed., Yeats and The Occult [Yeats Studies Series; gen. eds. Robert O’Driscoll & Lorna Reynolds] (London: Macmillan 1976), iii-xxi, 322pp. ill. [8pp. of pls.; [ded. ‘In memory of T. R. Henn’; infra].
• Sheila O’Sullivan, ‘W. B. Yeats’s Use of Irish Oral and Literary Tradition’, in Bo Almqvist et al., eds. Heritage: Essays and Studies presented to Seamus Ó Duilearga (1975), pp.266-79 [also in Béaloideas, 39-41, 1971-73 [1975], pp.266-79.
• A. N. Jeffares & A. S. Knowland, A Commentary on the Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1975).
• Brenda S. Webster, Yeats: A Psychoanalytical Study (London: Macmillan 1975), 246pp.
• George Mlls Harper, The Mingling of Heaven and Earth: Yeats’s Theory of Theatre (NY: Humanities Press 1975)
• Frank Tuohy, Yeats: An Illustrated Biography (London & NY: Macmillan 1976; Herbert Press 1991), 232pp., 16pp. ills.
• James W. Flannery, W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The Early Abbey Theatre in Theory and Practice (Yale UP 1976), 404pp. [infra]
• Richard Taylor, The Drama of W.B. Yeats: Irish Myth and the Japanese No (Yale UP 1976), xiii, 247pp.
• Geoge Bornstein, Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens (Chicago UP 1976).
• Robert Hogan, et al., ‘Yeats and the Critics: A Review-Symposium’, in The Journal of Irish Literature, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May 1976) [contribs. incl. Donald Torchiana, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, &c.].
• James McGarry, , ed Place Names in the Writings of W. B. Yeats, with intro. by Edward Malins (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1976).
• Liam Miller, The Noble Drama of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1977).
• Barton R. Friedman, Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: The Cuchulain Cycle of W. B. Yeats [Princeton Essays in Literature] (Princeton UP 1977).
• Edward Halim Mikhail, ed., W. B. Yeats: Interviews and Recollections, 2 vols.(London: Macmillan 1977).
• Seamus Deane, ‘Yeats, Ireland and Revolution’, in Crane Bag, 1.2 (1977), rep. in The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies (1982), pp.139-147.
• Mary Katharine Flannery, Yeats and Magic: The Earlier Works (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1977).
• Katherine Worth, The Irish Drama from Yeats to Beckett (London: Athlone Press; US: Humanities Press 1978).
• William Murphy, The Yeats Family and the Pollexfens of Sligo (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1977).
• Karin Strand, ‘W. B. Yeats’ American Lecture Tours’ (Ph.D.; Northwestern Univ. 1978).
• Andrew Parkin, The Dramatic Imagination of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1978).
• William Murphy, Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (Cornell UP 1978), 680pp., ills. [map, ports]..
• Mary H. Thuente, ‘W. B. Yeats and Celtic Ireland 1885-1900’, in P. J. Drury, ed., Anglo-Irish Studies, IV (1979), pp.91-104; G[eorge] J. Watson, ‘W. B. Yeats, From “Unity of Culture” to “Anglo-Irish Solitude”’, in Irish Identity and the Literary Revival (London: Croom Helm 1979), pp.87-150; Anthony Bradley, William Butler Yeats (NY: Ungar 1979)

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  1980-1989
• Mary Helen Thuente, W. B. Yeats and Irish Folklore (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1980; Totowa: Barnes & Noble 1981), x, 286pp.
• A. Norman Jeffares, ed., Yeats, Sligo and Ireland, Essays to mark the 21st Yeats Summer School [Irish Literary Studies 6] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), 267pp.
• James Olney, The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial Philosophy - Yeats and Jung (California UP 1980).
• George Mills Harper, W. B. Yeats and W.T. Horton: The Record of an Occult Friendship (London: Macmillan 1980), x, 160pp.
• Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Yeats, Ireland and Fascism (London: Macmillan 1981), viii, 251pp.
• Grattan Freyer, W. B. Yeats and the Anti-Democratic Tradition (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1981).
• Alan Warner, ‘William Butler Yeats’, in A Guide to Anglo-Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1981), pp.169-81;.
• Daniel T. O’Hara, Tragic Knowledge: Yeats’s Autobiography and Hermeneutics (NY: Columbia UP 1981).
• Bernard G. Krimm, W. B. Yeats and the Emergence of the Irish Free State, 1918-1939 (NY: Whitston 1981).
• Vinod Sena, W. B. Yeats: The Poet as Critic (London: Macmillan 1981).
• Dudley Young, Out of Ireland, the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (Brandon 1982), 169pp.
• Shirley C. Neuman, Yeats’s Autobiographical Prose (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1982).
• Richard F. Peterson, William Butler Yeats [Twayne’s English Authors Series 328] (Boston: Twayne 1982).
• Anthony Cronin, ‘W. B. Yeats: Containing Contradictions’, in Heritage Now: Irish Literature in the English Language (Dingle: Brandon 1982), pp.87-94.
• Richard Ellmann, Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: Four Dubliners (London: Hamilton 1982); also [Library of Congress] (NY: G. Braziller 1986), another edn. (London: Cardinal 1986), x, 106pp.
• Douglas N. Archibald, Yeats [Irish Studies Ser.] (Syracuse UP 1983), xiv, 280pp.
• A. S. Knowland, W. B. Yeats: Dramatist of Vision (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1983).
• David R. Clark, Yeats at Songs and Choruses ( Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1983), xxiv, 283pp., ills.
• Michael Steinman, Yeat’s Heroic Figures: Wilde, Parnell, Swift, Casement (London: Macmillan 1983).
• W. H. O’Donnell, A Guide to the Prose Fiction of W. B. Yeats (Ann Arbor: Michigan UP 1983).
• Augustine Martin: W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1983).
• Terence Diggory, Yeats and American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self (Princeton UP 1983).
• Geoffrey Thurley, The Turbulent Dream: Passion and Politics in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats Queensland University Press 1983).
• Richard Taylor, A Reader’s Guide to the Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1984), ix, 197pp.
• Karen Dorn, Players and Painted Stage: The Theatre of W. B. Yeats (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf; NJ: Barnes & Noble 1984).
• Elizabeth Cullingford, ed., Yeats - Poems, 1919-1935: A Casebook [Casebook Ser.] (London: Macmillan 1984), 240pp.
• Graham Hough, The Mystery Religion of W. B. Yeats (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1984).
• Joseph Adams, Yeats and the Masks of Syntax (London: Macmillan 1984), [192]pp.
• Okifumi Komescu, The Double Perspective of Yeats Aesthetic (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1984).
• Taylor, A Reader’s Guide to the Plays of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan London: Macmillan 1984).
• Deane, ‘Yeats and the Idea of Revolution’, in Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980 (London: Faber & Faber 1985), pp.38-50 Stephen Putzel, Reconstructing Yeats: ‘The Secret Rose’ and ‘The Wind among the Reeds’ (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1985).
• Peter Kuch, Yeats and AE: ‘The Antagonism that Unites Dear Friends’ (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1986), 291pp.
• Joseph Hassett, Yeats and The Poetics of Hate (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1986).
• Finneran, ed., Critical Essays on W. B. Yeats (Boston: G. K. Hall 1986), 258pp.
• Kathleen Raine, Yeats the Initiate: Essays on Certain Themes in the Work of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Dolmen; London: Allen & Unwin 1986).
• Douglas Archibald, ‘On Editing Yeats’s Autobiographies’, Gaeliana 8 (1986).
• Elizabeth Bergmann Loiseaux, Yeats and the Visual Arts (Rutgers UP 1986; Syracuse Press [2003]), 264pp.
• George M. Harper, The Making of Yeats’s ‘A Vision’: A Study of Automatic Script, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan 1987) 301, 463pp.
• Patrick J. Keane, Yeats’s Interactions with Tradition (Missouri UP 1987). xx, 332pp.
• Peter Faulkner, Yeats [Open Univ. Guides to Literature] (Milton Keynes: Open UP 1987).
• Maeve Good, W. B. Yeats and the Creation of the Tragic Universe (London: Macmillan; NJ: Barnes & Noble 1987).
• Eitel Timm, W. B. Yeats: A Century of Criticism (S. Carolina: Camden House 1987), 101pp.
• Donald T. Torchiana, ‘W. B. Yeats and Italian Idealism’, in Wolfgang Zach & Heinz Kosok eds., Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, Vol. II: Comparison and Impact (Tübingen: Guntar Narr Verlag, 1987), pp.245-53.
• David G. Wright, Yeats’s Myth of Self: The Autobiographical Prose (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1987).
• David Young, In Troubled Mirror: A Study of Yeats’s “The Tower” (Iow UP 1987).
• Richard Ellmann, W. B. Yeats’s Second Puberty (Washington DC: Central Serv. Div., Library of Congress [1987]), 32pp.
• Paul Scott Stanfield, Yeats and the Politics of the 1930s (London: Macmillan 1988).
• Conor Cruise O’Brien, Passion and Cunning: Essays on Nationalism, Terrorism, and Revolution (1988) [incls. essay formerly in Jeffares, ed., In Excited Reverie, 1965].
• A. Norman Jeffares: W. B. Yeats: A New Biography (London: Hutchinson 1988; reps. 1989, 1990, 2001), x, 374pp.
• Patrick J. Keane, “Terrible Beauty” : Yeats, Joyce, Ireland, and the Myth of the Devouring Female Missouri UP 1988), xvii, 146pp., ill.
• Edward Said, Yeats and Decolonialization [Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature] (Derry: Field Day 1988), 27pp; Frank Kinahan, Yeats, Folklore, and Occultism: Contexts of the Early Work and Thought (Boston: Unwin Hyman 1988).
• James Longenbach, Stone Cottage, Pound, Yeats, and Modernism (OUP 1988), xviii, 329pp.
• A. Norman Jeffares, ed., Yeats The European (Gerrards Cross Colin Smythe 1989), 356pp., 8 pls..
• Joann Gardner, Yeats and the Rhymers’ Club: A Nineties’ Perspective (NY: Lang 1989), 249pp.
• John Harwood, Olivia Shakespear and W. B. Yeats: After Long Silence (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1989), xvi, 218pp.

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  1990-1999
• Brian Arkins, Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats [Irish Literary Studies 32] (Gerards Cross: Colin Smythe 1990), 263pp.
• Ravindran Sankaran, W. B. Yeats and Indian Tradition (Delhi: Konark 1990).
• Masaru Sekine & Christopher Murray, Yeats and the Noh: A Comparative Study (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1990).
• Jahan Ramazani, Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime (Yale UP 1990).
• Nicholas Drake, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats [Penguin Critical Studies] (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1991).
• Leonard Orr, ed., Yeats and Postmodernism (Syracuse, NY, Syracuse UP 1991), 204pp.
• Wayne K. Chapman, Yeats and English Renaissance Literature (London: Macmillan 1991), x, 290pp.
• Jacqueline Genet, ‘Yeats and the Big House’, in Jacqueline Genet, ed., The Big House in Ireland (Dingle: Brandon; NY: Barnes & Noble 1991), pp.255-80; Leonard Orr, ed., Yeats and Postmodernism (Syracuse UP 1991).
• Philip L. Marcus, Yeats and Artistic Power (London: Macmillan 1992), 263pp.
• Michael North, The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound (CUP [1993]), 241pp.
• Peter Th. M. G. Liebregts, Centaurs in the Twilight: W. B. Yeats’s Use of the Classical Tradition (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1993).
• Robert Welch, ‘W. B. Yeats: “The Wheel Where the World is Butterfly”’, in Changing States: Transformations in Modern Irish Writing (London: Routledge 1993), pp.55-79.
• Deborah Fleming, ed., Learning the Trade: Essays on W. B. Yeats and Contemporary Poetry (Connecticut: Locust Hill 1993).
• Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Gender and History in Yeats’s Love Poetry (Cambridge UP 1993; Syracuse 1996), xiii, 334pp.
• Edward Malins, 2nd edn., rev. with additional material by John Purkis, A Preface to Yeats [Higher Ed. Ser.] (London: Longman 1994).
• Catherine Fahy, W. B. Yeats and His Circle ([1989] Syracuse UP 1994), 64pp., 123 photos.
• M. L. Rosenthal, Running to Paradise: Yeats’s Poetic Art (OUP 1994), xvi, 362pp.
• William M. Murphy, Family Secrets, William Butler Yeats and His Relatives (Syracuse UP 1994; Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1995), xxix, 534pp.
• Anthony L. Johnston, The Verbal Art of W. B. Yeats (Pisa: Edizioni Ets. 1994), 178pp.
• Edward Larrissy, Yeats the Poet: The Measures of Difference (London [Brighton] & NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1994).
• David Pierce, Yeats’s Worlds: Ireland, England, and the Poetic Imagination (Yale UP 1995), 352pp.[346pp.], col. ill., 36pp.
• Declan Kiberd, ‘Childhood and Ireland’, in Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (London: Jonathan Cape 1995), pp.102-29; also ‘The National Longing for Form’, pp.115-29, ‘Revolt Into Style - Yeatsian Poetics’ pp.305-14; ‘The Winding Stair’, pp.438-53, et passim.
• Roselinde Supheert, Yeats in Holland: The Reception of the Work of W. B. Yeats in the Netherlands before Word War Two (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1995), 319pp.
• Deborah Fleming, ‘A Man Who Does not Exist’: The Irish Peasant in the Works of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge (Michigan UP 1995).
• Sylvia Ellis, The Plays of W. B. Yeats: Yeats and the Dancer [Univ. of Wales’ (London: Macmillan; NY: St. Martin’s Press] 1995), 370pp.
• Hazard Adams, The Book of Yeats’s Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition (Ann Arbor: Michigan UP 1995), xiv, 178pp.
• Keith Alldritt, W. B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu (London: John Murray 1996), 384pp.
• Marjorie Elizabeth Howes, Yeats’s Nations: Gender, Class and Irishness (Cambridge UP 1996), ix, 240pp.
• Jonathan Allison, ed., Yeats’s Political Identities (Michigan UP 1996) [infra].
• Michael J. Sidnell, Yeats’s Poetry and Poetics (NY: St. Martin’s Press [Macmillan] 1996), 208pp.
• Julian Moynihan, ‘W. B. Yeats and the End of Anglo-Irish Literature’, in Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture (Princeton UP 1995), pp.198-223; also, XI: After the End: The Anglo-Irish Postmortem’ (p.224ff.).
• Anthony Jordan, Willie Yeats and the Gonne MacBrides (Westport Books 1997), 216pp.
• Janis Tedesco Haswell, Pressed Against Divinity: W. B. Yeats’s Feminine Masks (Northern Illinois UP 1997), 189pp.
• Daniel Albright, Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot and the Science of Modernism (Cambridge UP 1997), 317pp.
• Edward Larrissy, W. B. Yeats [Writers and Their Work] (Plymouth [Estover, Northcote House]: British Council 1998), 82pp.
• Eugene O’Brien, The Question of National Identity in the Writings of W. B. Yeats (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press 1998), xiii, 283pp.
• Vicki Mahaffey, States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment (NY: OUP 1998), xix, 276pp., ill.
• Nicholas Meihuizen, Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1998), 190pp.
  

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  2000-
• Jefferson Holderidge, Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime (Dublin: UCD Press 2000), 272pp.
• Yug Mohit Chaudry, Yeats: The Irish Literary Revival and the Politics of Print (Cork UP 2001), 280pp.
• R. F. Foster, The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland (London: Penguin 2001, 2002), ‘Yeats at War: Poetic Strategies and Political Reconstruction’ [pp.58-79]; ‘“When the Newspapers Have Forgotten Me”: Yeats, Obituarists and Irishness’ [pp.80-94]; ‘The Normal and the National: Yeats and the Boundaries of Irish Writing’ [pp.95-112]; 7: ‘Square-built Power and Fiery Shorthand: Yeats, Carleton and the Irish Nineteenth Century’ [pp.113-26].
• David Pierce, ed., W. B. Yeats: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. ([London:] Helm Press 2001).
• Ann Saddlemyer, Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats (Oxford UP 2002), 808pp.
• Declan Kiberd, ‘W.B. Yeats - Building Amid Ruins’, in Irish Classics (London: Granta 2000), pp.440-62.
• Anthony J. Jordan, W. B. Yeats: Vain, Glorious Lout - A Maker of Modern Ireland (Westport Books 2003), 200pp. [by defender of John MacBride against hostile Yeatsians].
• Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Yeats and the Visual Arts (Syracuse UP 2003), 264pp.
• R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats - A Life, II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Oxford: OUP 2003), 798pp. [with index]
• Christine Finn, Past Poetic Archaeology in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney (London: Duckworth 2004), 214pp.
• Alex Owen, The Place of Enchantment: British Ocultism and the Culture of the Modern (Chicago UP 2004), 355pp. [treats of Yeats and Annie Besant].
• Michael O’Neill, ed., The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A Sourcebook [Routledge Literary Sourcebook] (London: Routledge 2004), xv, 194pp.

Authorised biography
R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: ‘The Apprentice Mage’ (OUP 1996), 625pp., Do., pb. rep. (1998), 672pp.; R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats - A Life, II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Oxford: OUP 2003), 798pp. [with index].

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Literary biographies & guides
Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (London: Faber & Faber 1941), and Do. [rep. edn.] with a foreword by Richard Ellmann (Oxford: OUP 1967, 1979), 297pp.; John Unterecker, A Reader’s Guide to W. B. Yeats (NY: Noonday 1959); Jeffares, A Commentary on The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1968) [see rev. edn. 1984, infra]; Sheelah Kirby, The Yeats Country (Dublin: Dolmen 1962; 2nd ed. 1965 [var. 1963]), ill. with drawings; James McGarry, ed., with intro. by Edward Malins, Place Names in the Writings of W. B. Yeats (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1976); Robin Skelton and Ann Saddlemyer, The World of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Dolmen 1965); Mary Hanley, Thoor Ballylee: Home of William Butler Yeats (1965); Micheál MacLiammoir and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats and His World (London: Thames & Hudson 1971); Daniel A. Harris, Yeats, Coole Park and Ballylee (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 1974); A. N. Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1984); Richard Taylor, A Reader’s Guide to the Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1984); Ulick O’Connor, intro. and comm., The Yeats Companion (London: Mandarin 1991); Alasdair D. F. Macrae, W. B. Yeats, A Literary Life [Literary Lives] (London: Macmillan 1994), 204pp and index; Stephen Coote, W. B. Yeats: A Life (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1997; pb. 1998), 612pp.; Keith Alldritt, W. B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu (London: John Murray 1997), 388pp.; Stephen Coote, W. B. Yeats: A Life (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1997), 612pp.; Stephen Coote, W. B. Yeats: A Life (Hodder and Stoughton 1997), 624pp., 16 pls.; Sam McCready, A W. B. Yeats Encyclopaedia (Aldwych, Conn: Greenwood 1997), 484pp.; Lester I. Connor, A Yeats Dictionary: Persons and Places in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats (Syracuse UP; Eurospan 1998), 224pp.; Brenda Maddox, George’s Ghosts: A New Life of W. B. Yeats (London: Picador 1999; rep. 2000), 444pp.

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General studies
C. K. Stead, The New Poetic (London; Hutchinson & Co. 1964); Richard Ellmann, Eminent Domain: Yeats Among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot and Auden (OUP 1967, rep. 1970), vii, 161pp.; Richard Kain, Dublin in the Age of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce (Oklahoma UP 1962; London: David & Charles 1972); A. C. Patridge, The Language of Modern Poetry (London: André Deutsch 1976); Anthony Edward Dyson, Yeats Eliot and R. S. Thomas: Riding the Echo (London: Macmillan 1981), x, 339pp.; Hazard Adams, Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic (Florida UP 1983); George Bornstein, Transformations in Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot and Stevens (Chicago UP 1976); Lucy McDiarmid, Saving Civilisation: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden Between the Wars (Cambridge UP 1984); Denis Donoghue, We Irish (Brighton: Harvester, 1986) [incl. Yeats, ancestral houses, and Anglo-Ireland, pp.52-66.]; Christine Finn, Past Poetic Archaeology in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney (London: Duckworth 2004), 214pp.

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Bibliographies & concordances
R. K. Alspach, ‘Some Sources of Yeats’s The Wanderings of Oisin’, PMLA, 58 (Sept. 1943), pp.846-66; Allen Wade, ed., A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats (London: Hart-Davis 1951; rev. 1958; 3rd edn. [rev.] 1968); 514pp; contains three prefaces; Books by Yeats; Books and periodicals edited by Yeats; Books containing contributions by W. B. Yeats; contributions to periodicals; Translations into other languages; Japanese publications in English; appendices, Cuala Press (Dun Emer); some books about Yeats and his Work; Yeats and Broadcasting, by George Whalley. Title page copies, Descriptive to bibliography standards [UUC LIB Z8992 W2]. Note also A. J. A. Symons, A Bibliography of 1st Edition Books of W. B. Yeats (First Edition Club 1924), 46pp; also Kenneth [Gustav Walter] Cross and R. T. Dunlop, foreword by A. N. Jeffares, Bibliography of Yeats Criticism 1887-1967[?] (London: Macmillan 1971 341pp.; K. P. S. Jochum, W. B. Yeats, Classified Bibliography of Criticism, including additions to Wade’s Bibliography and a Section on Irish Literary Theatre and Dramatic Revival (Urbana: Illinois UP 1978) [var. 1977], 801pp. NOTE that Arnott, English Theatrical Literature (1970), lists Wade ed., A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats [The Soho Bibliographies I] (London 1951); Klaus Peter S. Jochum, ‘W. B. Yeats’s Plays: An Annotated Checklist of Criticism (Sarrbrüchem: Anglistisches Institut der Universität des Saarlandes 1966); Allan Wade, A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats, revised by R K Alspach [3rd Edn.] (London: Hart-Davis; NY: OUP 1968) [4th edn. under preparation by Colin Smythe]; K. G. W. Cross & R. T. Dunlop, A Bibliography of Yeats Criticism 1887-1965, foreword A. N. Jeffares (London: Macmillan 1971), 341pp.; J. E. Stoll, The Great Deluge: A Yeats Bibliography (NY: Whitston Publ. Co. 1971); Richard J. Finneran, ed., Recent Research on Anglo-Irish Writers (NY: MLA 1983). Klaus Peter S. Jochum, W. B. Yeats: A Classified Bibliography of Criticism [2d edn.] (Urbana: Illinois UP 1990) [add. annual checklists in Finneran, ed., Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies from 1990 (Vol. 8)]; Edward O’Shea, A Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats’s Library (NY: Garland Press 1985); Conrad A. Balliet, W. B. Yeats: A Census of the Manuscripts (NY: Garland Press 1990); J. C. C. Mays & Stephen Parrish, W. B. Yeats: New Poems: Manuscript Materials (Cornell UP 2001). Also, Stephen Maxfield Parrish, and Painter, eds., A Concordance to The Poems of W. B. Yeats (NY 1963); Eric Domville, A Concordance to the Plays of W. B. Yeats (1972).

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Miscellaneous
Yeats Annuals: LONDON SERIES: Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual, No. 1 (London: Macmillan 1982); Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual, No. 3 (London: Macmillan 1985); Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual, No. 4 (London: Macmillan 1986); Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual, No. 5 (London: Macmillan 1987); Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual, No. 6 (London: Macmillan 1988);Ron Schuchard, ed., Yeats Annual, No. 7 (London: Macmillan 1990); Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual, No. 8 (London: Macmillan 1991); Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual (London: Macmillan 1982- ); new series, Deirdre Toomey, ed., Yeats Annual No. 9: ‘Yeats and Women’ (London: Macmillan 1997), 442pp. ISSN 0278-7688 [incl. David Bradshaw, ‘the eugenics Movement in he 1930s and the ermgence of On the Boiler’] rep. 2nd Edn., Yeats and Women (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1997), 448pp [0-333698-16-9]; Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual No. 10 (London: Macmillan 1993); Gould, ed., Yeats Annual No. 11 (London: Macmillan 1995); Warwick Gould with Edna Longley, eds., Yeats Annual No. 12: ‘That Accusing Eye’: Yeats and his Irish Readers [Special Number] (London: Macmillan 1996). MICHIGAN SERIES: Richard J. Finneran, ed., Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, No. 1 (Michigan UP: 1983); No. IV (Ann Arbour: UMI Research Press 1986), 231pp. Finneran, Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies [IX] (Michigan UP 1992) [ISSN 0742-6224].

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Liam Miller, ed. & intro., The Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers (Dublin: Dolmen; London: OUP; Chester Springs, US: Dufour Edns. 1968), 523pp., Malins, Yeats and Music [Dolmen Centenary Papers, XII] (Dublin: Dolmen 1965): Preface by John Stallworthy; Introduction by Liam Miller [xiii-xvi]; Edward Malins, ‘Yeats and the Easter Rising’ [1]; Raymond Lister, ‘Beulah to Byzantium: A Study of Parellels in the works of W. B. Yeats, William Blake, Samuel Palmer, and Edward Calvert’ [29]; Russell K. Alspach, ‘Yeats and Inisfree’ [69]; Giles W. L. Telfer, ‘Yeats’s Idea of the Gael’ [85]; Peter Faulkner, ‘Yeats and the Irish Eighteenth Century’ [109]; ‘Hiro Ishibashi [ed. Anthony Kerrigan], ‘Yeats and the Noh: Types of Japanese Beauty and their Reflection in Yeats’s Plays [125]; George Brandon Saul, ‘In ... Luminous Wind’ [197]; Curtis Bradford, ‘Yeats’s Last Poems Again’ [257]; George Mills Harper, ‘Yeats’s Quest for Eden’ [289]; John Unterecker ‘Yeats and Patrick McCartan, a Fenian Friendship: letters with a commentary, with address on “Yeats the Fenian” by Patrick McCartan’ [333]; Richard Ellmann, ‘Yeats and Joyce’ [445]; Edward Mallins, ‘Yeats and Music’ [481-509]; num. pls. and facs. ills.] See also 2nd Series: William Murphy: The Yeats Family and the Pollexfens of Sligo [New Yeats Papers No 1] (Dolmen Press 1971), 88pp., ills.; Richard J. Finneran, The Prose Fiction of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1974), 44pp.

George Mills Harper, ed., Yeats and The Occult [Yeats Studies Series; gen. eds. Robert O’Driscoll & Lorna Reynolds] (London: Macmillan 1976),List of Illustrations [ix]; Note to the Reader [xi]; Acknowledgements [xiii]; Introduction [xv]; George Mills Harper, ‘Yeats’s Occult Papers’ [1]; William M. Murphy, ‘Psychic Daughter, Mystic Son, Sceptic Father’ [11]; James Olney, ‘The Esoteric Flower: Yeats and Jung’ [27]; William H. O’Donnell, ‘Yeats as Adept and Artist: The Speckled Bird, The Secret Rose, and The Wind among the Reeds’ [55]; Kathleen Raine, ‘Hades Wrapped in Cloud’ [80]; Arnold Goldman, ‘Yeats, Spiritualism, and Psychical Research’ [108]; George Mills Harper & John B. Kelly, ‘“Preliminary Examination of the Script of E[lizabeth] R[adcliffe]’ [130]; George Mills Harper, ‘“A Subject of Investigation”: Miracle at Mirebeau’ [172]; Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper, ‘“He loved strange thought”: W. B. Yeats and William Thomas Horton’ [190]; Walter Kelly Hood, ‘Michael Robartes: Two Occult Manuscripts’ [204]; Michael J. Sidnell, ‘Mr. Yeats, Michael Robartes, and Their Circle’ [225]; Warwick Gould, ‘“Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind”: Sources for Owen Aherne’ [255]; Laurence W. Fennelly, ‘W. B. Yeats and S. L. MacGregor Mathers’ [285]; Geoffrey N. Watkins, ‘Yeats and Mr. Watkins’ Bookshop’ [307]; Stuart Hirschberg, ‘‘An Encounter with the Supernatural in Yeats’s “The Spirit Medium”’ [311]; Richard J. Finneran, ‘A Preliminary Note on the Text of A Vision ( 1937)’ [317]; Contributors [321].

Deirdre Toomey, ed., Yeats Annual No. 9: ‘Yeats and Women’ (London: Macmillan 1997; 2nd Edn., Macmillan 1997), 448pp [0-333698-16-9]. CONTENTS: Contents: Acknowledgements vii; Notes on the Contributors, ix; Abbreviations, x; List of Plates xv; Introduction xvi; Deirdre Toomey, Labyrinths: Yeats and Maud Gonne 1; Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, At the Feet of the Goddess: Yeats’s Love Poetry and the Feminist Occult [41]; Warwick Gould, “The Music of Heaven”: Dorothea Hunter [73]; Deirdre Toomey, Away [135]; James Pethica, Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory and the Economy of Indebtedness [168]; Pethica, “Our Kathleen”: Yeats’s Collaboration with Lady Gregory in the Writing of Cathleen ni Houlihan [205]; Cullingford, Yeats and Women: Michael Robartes and the Dancer [223]; John Harwood, “Secret Communion”: Yeats’s Sexual Destiny [252]; &c.

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W. B. Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition (National Gallery of Ireland 1965), 102pp., with indexes; foreword by James White. Contents, Chap. 1]. Yeats the Man [ports. by Albert Power; J. B. Yeats; George Russell; W Strang; Sean O’Sullivan; Augustus John [Yeatss at Renvyle, June 1930]; John Sargent; Edmund Dulac; Max Beerbohm]. CHAP. 2] The Heritage [ports. of Berkeley, Swift, Goldsmith, Grattan, Burke, Lover, Tone, Davis, Carleton with Robt. James and W H Maxwell, Emmet portrayed by Fred Donovan, Emmet, Ferguson, Curran, Mangan, Butt, O’Connell, Sheridan, Wordsworth, William O’Brien, O’Brien with Healy, Thom. Sexton, Dr Tanner and Justin McCarthy, Davitt, William Wilde, Allingham, Parnell, Standish [James] O’Grady, John Eglinton, Douglas Hyde, Swinburne, Redmond, Connolly, Stephen McKenna, McKenna with Lord Ashbourne and a.n.other, Henry Harrison, james Larkin, Rosa Butt, John Dillon, WS Blunt, Katharine Tynan, Count Plunkett, Oscar Wilde]. CHAP 3] Early Years [ports. other than family, incl. James Joyce, George Rusell, Alice Milligan, Horace Plunkett, Edward Dowden, Miss Hester Dowden, Hugh Lane, John O’Leary, John Todhunter, Mahaffy, Seamus O’Sullivan, Lord Dunsany, Oliver Sheppard, Lady Gregory, Eglinton, Robt. Gregory]. CHAP. 4] The Family [incl. Dukes of Ormond, Pollexfens, Yeats (Mary, Lily and Lollie) and places]. CHAP. 5] Pictures as Inspiration [includes Blake, Vecellio, Sargent, JB Yeats, Bernardo Strozzi, and Poussin]. CHAP. 6] Poet as Painter [3 items]. CHAP. 7] Abbey Theatre [incl. Fays; the theatres; Miss Horniman; posters; Helen S. Laird (Mrs CP Curran), Lady Gregory, Synge, Edward Martyn, Geo. Moore, Geo. Russell, G. B. Shaw]. CHAP. 8] The Abbey Theatre, Playwrights [intro. refers to Harry Clarke Geneva Window contain ills. representative of Persse, Gregory, G. B. Shaw Seamus O’Sullivan [James Starkey], J. Stephens, O’Casey, Liam O’Flaherty, “AE” [George Russell], Lennox Robinson, Yeats, G. Fitzmaurice, P. Colum, Seamus O’Kelly, James Joyce and Synge; incl. O’Casey, Gogarty, Shaw, Robinson, T. C. Murray, Lecky, F R Higgins, Will. Fay, John F. Larchet]. CHAP. 9] The Abbey Theatre, Actors [Barry Fitzgerald, Moira O’Neill, F. J. McCormack, Arthur Sinclair, Arthur Shields, J M Kerrigan, Maire Nic Shiubhliagh, Hugh Hunt, Sarah Allgood]. CHAP. 10] Public Life [incl. Austin Clarke, Mrs Pearse, Sarah Purser, Kevin O’Higgins, Hugh Lane, Joseph Holloway, Mrs R. I. Best, Maude Gonne MacBride, Casement, William T. Cosgrave, R. I. Best, Constance de Markievicz, Douglas Hyde, Eamon de Valera, Thomas Bodkin, James Stephens, Thomas MacGreevey, Denis Coffey, Iseult MacBride, Joseph O’Neill, Seán T O’Kelly, Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Liam O’Flaherty, Seán O’Faolain, Joseph Hone, Denis Johnston, Lawrence of Arabia [with corrig. slip], Susan Mitchell, Herbert Hamilton Harty, Patrick Kavanagh]. Index of Lenders; Index of Persons Portrayed; Index of Artists. See also Exhibition Catalogue, W. B. Yeats, Images of a Poet. My Permanent and Impermanent Images [Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery] (Man UP and Irish Arts Council 1961). NOTE also in Benedict Kiely, Yeats’s Ireland, An Illustrated Anthology (Aurum 1993), “Yeats as a Young Man”, by John Butler Yeats (Municipal Gallery); Sean O’Sullivan, “Yeats” (Abbey Theatre Foyer), 1934, reproduced in Benedict Kiely’s Yeats’s Ireland, An Illustrated Anthology (Aurum 1993), and used as cover to Times Literary Supplement, No. 4722, Oct. 1 ‘Ireland’ [q.d.]. See also A. N. Jeffares, W. B. Yeats, A New Biography (London: Hutchinson 1988), pictures from public and private collections.

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Catherine Fahy, W. B. Yeats and His Circle (National Library of Ireland 1989), 63pp. 1. Yeats and Pollexfen; 2. First Lover and Mentors [incl. Dowden and Eglinton]; 3. The Contemporary Club [incl. Sigerson, C H Oldham, and J F Taylor]; 4. John O’Leary; 5. Katharine Tynan [incl. Matthew Russell and Whithall, Clondalkin]; 6. Maud Gonne; Irish Literary Societies [Fahy, O’Donoghue, Gavan Duffy]; Republican Activities [Mark Ryan; F H O’Donnell]; 9. Hermeticists, Theosophists, and the Golden Dawn [incl. Charles Johnston, Chatterji, Blavatsky, ‘AE’ George Russell, and Moina Mathers, sis. of Henri Bergson, and wife of MacGregor M., William Sharp, George Pollexfen, Florence Farr, et al. and castle of heroes on Castle Rock, Lough Key, nr. Boyle, Co. Roscommon]; 10. London Friends [Morris, Henley, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, John Todhunter, Edward Dowson, Ernest Rhys, et al.]; 11. Lady Gregory and Coole [mostly of Yeats]; 12. The Dramatic Movement [Florence Farr; Edward Martyn, Lady Gregory, George Moore, Máire Ni Shuibhlaigh, William and Frank Fay; with scenes from plays incl. Maud Gonne in title role of Cathleen Ni Houlihan]; 13. The Yeats Family in the USA [incl. John Quinn and Lollie Yeats]; 14. The Established Poet [incl. Countess Markievicz, John MacBride, Hugh Lane, Georgie Hyde-Lees, and Iseult Gonne from pastel by her mother]; 15. The Married Poet [Yeats as Giraldus, the supposed author of A Vision; Lady Ottoline Morrell]; 16. The Sixty Year Old Smiling Public Man [incl. group of memorial committee to T. W. Lyster at National Library, with R. L. Praeger, R. I. Best, George Atkinson, et al.; also Frank O’Connor, young Francis Stuart, F. R. Higgins with Lennox Robinson, Lord Dunsany]; 17. Last Years [Dorothy Wellesley, Shri Purohit Swami; Margot Rudduck; Yeats broadcasting, (3 July) 1937, and his grave].

Shirley Neuman, Some One Myth: Yeats’s Autobiographical Prose [New Yeats Papers XIX] (Dolmen Press 1982) [cover design by Sturge Moore for the 1916 ed. of Reveries Over Childhood], 160pp. with appendix and notes. Contents, 1. Personal Utterance and The Lunar Parable, Early Prose and A Vision; 2. Reveries &c.; 3. The Trembling of the Veil; 4. Dramatis Personae; 5. Estrangement and The Death of Synge; 6. The Bounty of Sweden; 7. On the Boiler.

Jonathan Allison, ed., Yeat’s Political Identities: Selected (Michigan UP 1996), 352pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments’ [ix]; Jonathan Allison, Introduction: Fascism, Nationalism, Reception’ [1]. PART 1: Yeats and Fascism. Conor Cruise O'Brien, ‘Passion and Cunning: An Essay on the Politics of W. B. Yeats’ [excerpt] [29]; Conor Cruise O'Brien, ‘Introduction to Passion and Cunning and Other Essays’ [excerpt] [57]; Elizabeth Cullingford, ‘From Democracy to Authority’ [61]. PART 2: Yeats and the Ascendancy. R. F. Foster, ‘Protestant Magic: W. B. Yeats and the Spell of Irish History’ [83]; Marjorie Howes, ‘Family Values: Gender, Sexuality, and Crisis in Yeats's Anglo-Irish Aristocracy’ [107]. PART 3. Nationalism and Revolution. Seamus Deane, ‘Yeats and the Idea of Revolution’ [133]; Declan Kiberd, ‘Inventing Irelands’ [145]; Richard Kearney, ‘Myth and Terror (Excerpt)’ [165]; David Lloyd, ‘The Poetics of Politics: Yeats and the Founding of the State’ [excerpt] [181]; Edna Longley, ‘Helicon and ni Houlihan: Michael Robartes and the Dancer’ [203]; Maurice Harmon, ‘Yeats, Austin Clarke and Sedn O'Faoldin’ [221]; George Bornstein, ‘Romancing the (Native) Stone: Yeats, Stevens, and the Anglocentric Canon’ [235]. PART 4. Seamus Heaney, ‘Some Responses: In the Midst of the Force Field’ [257]; Augustine Martin, ‘What Stalked through the Post Office?’ [reply to Seamus Deane] [261]; Terence Brown, ‘Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Critical Debate’ [279]; David Krause, The De-Yeatsification Cabal’ [293]; Hazard Adams , Yeats and Antithetical Nationalism’ [309]; Ronald Bush, ‘The Modernist under Siege’ [325]. Select Annotated Bibliography [335]; Contributors’ [349].

Notes

Hermetically sealed: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, fnd. in Paris by Stanislas de Guaïta as Kabbalistic Order of the Rosy Cross, 1883 - though supposedly based on earlier tradition established by a certain medieval Fr. Rosenkreuz.

The Kabbala: The Golden Dawn formed by Freemasons of the thirty-third degree, lead by Samuel Liddell Mathers, called McGregor Mathers out of pride of Scottish ancestry; Yeats was involved in both organisations; joined Theosophical Soc. in 1888; sought membership of the Golden Dawn in 1890; Golden Dawn embodied the idea of the Kabbala (Qaballah) and the Tree of Life, composed of ten emanations, called the Sephiroth, arranged in two columns of three and a middle column of four; the divine essence is believed to purest at the top of the Middle Pillar; at the bottom is Malkuth, the kingdom of physical matter; adepts may pass upwards by grades or stages, but the top three Sephiroth are not attainable by those in the middle of an incarnation; only if the abyss or void between the three top Sephiroth and the Lower Seven is deliberately passed, divinity can only come in bursts of intuition or inspiration; the Kabbala is attended by three dominant symols of which the rose is most important; it is divided into three concentric circles, each segmented, viz, the Tree Mothers, the Seven Planets, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac; a candidate preparing to enter the inner order of the Golden Dawn performs an initiation called Rubea Rosea or Arum Crucis; vision is not a passive regard by a gazing with active and transform imaginative power through knowledge; ‘revival’ of literature was, in Yeats’s mind, subordinate to the revival of theosophical lore in the modern world. See Graham Hough, The Mystery Religion of W. B. Yeats (Sussex: Harvester Press 1984); Okifumi Komescu, The Double Perspective of Yeats’s Aesthetic (NJ: Barnes & Noble 1984); Peter Kuch, Yeats and AE: The Antagonism that Unites Dear Friends (Barnes & Noble 1986).

Blake source: Copy of Jacob Bryant, A New System, or An Analysis of Anceint Mythology, 2 vols., held in Coole Park Library, with a 13-line autograph note by W. B. Yeats, sold at Sothebys in 1972 and purchased by F. Edwards at £260. Yeats’s note as follows: ‘Bryant [sic] had a great influence on William Blake. This work especially influenced him so far as I can judge from a rather hasty search in it ... the influence of Brant is strong in the later Prophetic Books, Jerusalem particularly. ... Bryant made Blake’s symbolism rather [?arbitary] and ugly, I think.’ Further notes that the book was not available in the British Library when he was writing on Blake. (Signed & dated 1901; see Sotheby Sale: Printed Books formerly in the Library at Coole, The Property of Lady Gregory, London: Sotheby & Co., Auction Catalogue, 20-21 March 1972; Lot 70; the book was acquired by Richard Gregory in 1779 in a contemp. tree calf gilt copy ‘Bound by Baumgarten’ - an elusive craftsman - acc. to bookseller’s hand-written note the verso of the front free endpaper of each vol.) [Copy of the Catalogue in PGIL, Monaco.]

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London Diner: Yeats was dining with others in London when news of the 1916 Easter Rising arrives, 25 April 1916; responds to executions of Pearse and others with "Easter 1916", written between May and September, first printed in edn. of 25 copies, 1917, and published in book-form at the height of the War of Independence in 1920.

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Scraps & films: Scrapbooks containing cuttings of Yeats newspaper and magazine articles, with his manuscripts notes and alterations, are held in NLI as MS Books 12147 and 12148; microfilms of United Ireland and Dublin Daily Express held in Univ. of Illinois Library. (See John Frayne, ed., Uncollected Prose, 1970; Pref., p.12.)

Minus apparatus: There was a chorus of regrets among the critics at the time of the several Macmillan editions of his prose that these volumes were delivered without scholarly apparatus; Herbert Read, in ‘What Yeats Believed’, review of Essays and Introductions, in Listener (9 March, 1961), remarked that ‘this collection of what Yeats called his "critical prose" appears with a minimum of editing and no index. It has an introduction written by Yests in 1937, but the publishers do not tell us why it has taken twenty-four years to produce the book, the proofs of which were seen and corrected by the author shortly before his death. There is nothing within the volume to explain the origin and first appearance of the various items ... All this is a pity, because the volume is important for an understanding of Yeats’s mind and development, and the special introductions which he wrote for this volume, for his Plays, and for the Works as a whole are published here for the first time.’ (Listener, q.p.); See also attitude expressed by Richard Murphy in review of Explorations [Rx].

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Oscar Wilde wrote a review of Yeats’s Wanderings of Oisin (1889), praising ‘its nobility of treatment and nobility of subject matter, delicacy of poetic instinct, and richness of imaginative resource’ (Artist as Critic, ed. Ellmann, p.150).

James Joyce attended the première of Yeats The Countess Cathleen (8 May 1899), watching from the ‘gods’; clapped vigorously at Florence Farr’s singing of the lyric "Who Goes with Fergus?", though surrounded by Irish-Ireland protesters incl. Skeffington, who protests against the ‘type of our people [as] a loathesome brood of apostates’ in the Freeman’s Journal (10 May 1899); later told his brother Stanislaus that he counted Cathleen Ni Houlihan by Yeats and Gregory ‘political claptrap’ (My Brother’s Keeper, p.187).

Marianne Moore saw Yeats lecture at Brooklyn, NY, in 1932 and wrote: ‘he is hearty, smiling, benevolent and elegant with a springiness and vigor that no invalid could very well counterfeit … You could never hear more finished speaking or a finer manner; he has the hand of a hereditary royalist who never picked up a stone or touched his own shoes’ (Letters, ed. Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridgee and Cristanne Miller, Faber 1998; reviewed by Nicholas Jenkins, Times Literary Supplement, 22 May 1998, p.3.)

Una Ellis Fermor attributes the power of Yeats’s language to its origin in the speech of Irish peasants, arguing that ‘the unconscious and spontaneous revelation of the living imagination’ was embodied in ‘the living speech of the people of Ireland in his own day’ (1964, p.62). [See Loreto Todd, The Language of Irish Literature, 1989, p.73]. ALSO, Yeats knew that words had to be allied to ‘a powerful and passionate syntax’ (Essays and Introductions, pp.521-22; Loreto, op. cit., p.74]

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The Herne’s Egg was rejected by the Abbey Theatre as obscene in 1938; The Death of Cuchulain was first staged by Austin Clarke’s Irish Lyric Theatre Co., Dublin, in 1945 (DES Maxwell, 1984, 134). NOTE also friendship with Ethel Mannin [Rx epitaph and meditation on death].

Conor Cruise O’Brien remarks on Yeats’s inveterate use of ‘violent’ as a term of encomium, e.g., ‘Cuchulain Comforted’: ‘violent and famous, strode among the dead.’(Passion and Cunning, 1988, q.p.). Noe also that the story of Cruise O’Brien’s successfully getting Yeats to admit that he has not read Carlyle (but his wife has) is told in an interview with R. M. Smyllie in W. R. Rodgers, Irish Portraits and reprinted in Patricia Boylan, All Cultivated People (1988), p.34.

Willie Says No!: Denis Ireland remarks of Yeats’s attitude to Ulster: ‘As for Willie Yeats, factory chimneys and fairies were assumed to cancel one another out [...]'’ (From the Jungle of Belfast, 1973, p.18; quoted in F. L. S Lyons, ‘Yeats and Victorian Ireland’, in A Norman Jeffares, ed., Yeats, Sligo and Ireland [Irish Literary Studies 6], Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980.)

Wasteful virtues: Epigraph for all issues of Threshold taken from Yeats’s The King’s Threshold, ‘Cry that not a man alive would ride among the arrows with high heart / or scatter with an open hand, had not our heady craft / commanded wasteful virtues.’

Irish heirman: While staying at Coole Yeats caused Robert Gregory to feel jealous and antipathy not least because he drank Sir William’s vintage Tokay.

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Quit Ireland?: David Pierce reports the discovery in Melville library of a letter of 1 Feb. 1923 in which, writing from Merrion Sq. in the thick of the Civil War, George Yeats (who was then staying at the Savile Club, London) attempts to persuade her husband not to contemplate leaving Ireland for good. (See Times Literary Supplement, Letters, 1 Dec. 1995, p.15.)

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Horace Plunkett wrote in his diary entry about Yeat as ‘the young Poet - a rebel - a mystic - an ass - but really a genius in a queer way’ (cited in Peter McDonald, ‘The Necessary Nan’, review of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. Warwick Gould, et al., OUP 1997; in Times Literary Supplement, 5 Dec. 1997.)

Click does the trick: In letter to Dorothy Wellesley, Yeats wrote that ‘a poem comes right with a click like a closing box’ (Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats, London 1940, p.24). Geoffrey Hill juxtaposes this description and the experience described with T. S. Eliot’s similar account - identified with “Three Voices” - ‘of exhaustion, of appeasement, of absolution, and of something very near annihilation’ on successfully finishing a poem. (See ‘Poetry as ‘Menace’ and ‘Atonement’’ in Hill, The Lords of Limit; cited by Adam Piette of Glasgow Univ., on Modbrits e-list, March 1998.) Note also that Rudyard Kipling ends the novel Kim with ‘an almost audible click’ when the boy ‘regrasp[s] things’, as Edward Said puts it in his interpretation of the novel. (See Said, Culture and Imperialism, Chatto & Windus 1993, p.172.) Note further that Said equates this ‘regrasping of the scene; with George Eliot and Henry James on other novels, and further notes that the ‘lock[ing] up anew on the world without’ that Kim experiences is reinforced by Mother Earth’s blessing upon him as she ‘breathed through him [what had been] lost’. (op. cit., p.173). Plainly the experiences described by Yeats and Eliot are more nearly opposite than identical; but does Yeats’s choice of word owe anything to Kipling?

Minting Ireland: Yeats's authorship of Coinage of Saorstat Eireann (1928) is suggested by its listing as Wade 317 (Bibl.). The work has 11 plates.

Words Upon the Window Pane: A 78-min. film version of Yeats's play concerning a seance and set in two centuries, was produced and Anna J. Devlin and directed by McGuckian, with Geraldine Chaplin, Geraldine, James, Ian Richardson, John Lynch, Gerard McSorley, Donal Donnelly, Gemma Craven, Orla Brady and Jim Sheridan. See Bord Scannan na hEireann website.

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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)