Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler (1865 - 1939)

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
Ethnicity
Education
Literary Period
Literary Movement
First RPO Edition
2006