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Yeats, William Butler (1865 - 1939)

Index to poems

  1. After Long Silence
  2. All Things can tempt Me
  3. Among School Children
  4. Byzantium
  5. The Choice
  6. The Circus Animals' Desertion
  7. A Coat
  8. Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop
  9. A Dialogue of Self and Soul
  10. Down by the Salley Gardens
  11. Easter 1916
  12. Ego Dominus Tuus
  13. He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
  14. Introductory Rhymes
  15. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  16. Lapis Lazuli
  17. A Last Confession
  18. Leda and the Swan
  19. Long-Legged Fly
  20. The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart
  21. The Magi
  22. The Man who dreamed of Faeryland
  23. The Mother of God
  24. Never give all the Heart
  25. The New Faces
  26. No Second Troy
  27. A Prayer for my Daughter
  28. A Prayer for Old Age
  29. Sailing to Byzantium
  30. The Scholars
  31. The Second Coming
  32. The Secret Rose
  33. September 1913
  34. The Song of the Happy Shepherd
  35. The Sorrow of Love
  36. The Spur
  37. The Tower
  38. Two Songs from a Play
  39. Under Ben Bulben
  40. What then?
  41. When You are Old
  42. The Wild Swans at Coole
Biography: 

All works by W. B. Yeats, although briefly out of copyright in the 1990s, re-entered copyright since then and can only be published by permission of the publishers or the poet's estate.

For a brief biography of the poet, see the Nobel Foundation Web site and

  • Foster, R. F. "Yeats, William Butler (1865–1939)."Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2011.

 

  • Yeats, W. B. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. 1888. [prose]
  • --. The Wanderings of Oisin and other Poems. 1889.
  • --. The Countess Cathleen. 1892. [play]
  • --. The Celtic Twilight. 1893. [prose]
  • --. The Land of Heart's Desire. 1894.
  • --. The Secret Rose. 1897. [prose]
  • --. The Wind among the Reeds. 1899.
  • --. The Shadowy Waters. 1900.
  • --. Cathleen ni Houlihan. 1902. [play]
  • --. In the Seven Woods. 1903.
  • --. On Baile's Strand. 1904. [play]
  • --. Deirdre. 1907. [play]
  • --. The Green Helmet and Other Poems. 1910.
  • --. Poems Written in Discouragement. 1913.
  • --. Responsibilities: Poems and a Play. 1914.
  • --. The Wild Swans at Coole. 1917.
  • --. A Vision. 1925. [prose]
  • --. Michael Robartes and the Dancer. 1921.
  • --. Seven Poems and a Fragment. 1922.
  • --. The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems. 1924.
  • --. October Blast. 1927.
  • --. The Tower. 1928.
  • --. The Winding Stair. 1929.
  • --. Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems. 1932.
  • --. Wheels and Butterflies. 1934.
  • --. The King of the Great Clock Tower. 1934.
  • --. A Full Moon in March. 1935.
  • --. New Poems. 1938.
  • --. Last Poems and Two Plays. 1939.
Given Name: 
William Butler
Family Name: 
Yeats
Birth Date: 
June 13, 1865
Death Date: 
January 28, 1939
Nationality: 
Irish
Ethnicity: 
Irish

Education

Honours

Literary Period: 
Modern
Literary Movement: 
Irish Renaissance

Illness

Buried At: 
Drumcliff, Sligo, Eire; original burial site at Cimetière de Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Region, France
First RPO Edition: 
2006