# W. B. Yeats bibliography

This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised. Posthumous editions are also included if they are the first publication of a new or significantly revised work. Years are linked to corresponding "year in poetry" articles for works of poetry, and "year in literature" articles for other works.

## 1880s

* 1885 – "Song of the Fairies" & "Voices," poems in the Dublin University Review (March)
* 1886 – Mosada, verse play
* 1888 – Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
* 1889 – Crossways
* 1889 – The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, includes "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child" and "Down by the Salley Gardens"

## 1890s

* 1890 – "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", poem first published in the National Observer, 13 December; poem included in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892
* 1890 – Irish Fairies in The Leisure Hour
* 1891 – Representative Irish Tales
* 1891 – John Sherman and Dhoya, two stories
* 1892 – Irish Fairy Tales
* 1892 – The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, includes "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (see 1890, above) (Lyrics from this book appear in Yeats' collected editions in a section titled "The Rose" [1893] but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose")
* 1893 – The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
* 1893 – The Rose, poems
* 1893 – The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical, co-written with Edwin Ellis
* 1894 – The Land of Heart's Desire, published in April, his first acted play, performed 29 March
* 1895 – Poems, verse and drama; the first edition of his collected poems. Containing: The Countess Cathleen, The Land of Heart's Desire, The Wanderings of Usheen and the poetry collections The Rose, Crossways
* 1895 – Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, an anthology
* 1897 – The Tables of the Law. The Adoration of the Magi, privately printed; The Tables of the Law first published in The Savoy, November 1896; a regular edition of this book appeared in 1904
* 1897 – The Secret Rose, fiction
* 1899 – The Wind Among the Reeds, including "Song of the Old Mother"

## 1900s

* 1900 – The Shadowy Waters, poems
* 1902 – Cathleen Ní Houlihan, play
* 1903 – Ideas of Good and Evil, nonfiction
* 1903 – In the Seven Woods, poems, includes "Adam's Curse" (Dun Emer Press)
* 1903 – Where There is Nothing, play
* 1903 – The Hour Glass, play, copyright edition (see also 1904 edition)
* 1904 – The Hour-Glass; Cathleen ni Houlihan; The Pot of Broth, plays
* 1904 – The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand
* 1904 – The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi, a privately printed edition appeared in 1897
* 1905 – Stories of Red Hanrahan, published in 1905 by the Dun Emer Press, although the book states the year of publication was 1904; contains stories from The Secret Rose (1897) rewritten with Lady Gregory; another edition was published in 1927
* 1906 – Poems, 1899 –1905, verse and plays
* 1907 – Deirdre
* 1907 – Discoveries, nonfiction

## 1910s

* 1910 – The Green Helmet and Other Poems, verse and plays
* 1910 – Poems: Second Series
* 1911 – Synge and the Ireland of his Time, nonfiction
* 1912 – The Cutting of an Agate
* 1912 – Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany
* 1912 – A Coat
* 1913 – Poems Written in Discouragement
* 1916 – Responsibilities, and Other Poems
* 1916 – Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, nonfiction
* 1916 – Easter 1916
* 1917 – The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, a significantly revised edition appeared in 1919
* 1918 – Per Amica Silentia Lunae
* 1918 – In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
* 1918 – The Leaders of the Crowd
* 1919 – Two Plays for Dancers, plays; became part of Four Plays for Dancers, published in 1921
* 1919 – The Wild Swans at Coole, significant revision of the 1917 edition: has the poems from the 1917 edition and others, including "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and "The Phases of the Moon"; contains: "The Wild Swans at Coole", "Ego Dominus Tuus", "The Scholars" and "On being asked for a War Poem"

## 1920s

* 1920 – "The Second Coming"
* 1921 – Michael Robartes and the Dancer, poems; published in February, although book itself states "1920"
* 1921 – Four Plays for Dancers, plays; includes contents of Two Plays for Dancers, published in 1919, together with At the Hawk's Well and Calvary
* 1921 – Four Years
* 1922 – Later Poems
* 1922 – The Player Queen, play
* 1922 – Plays in Prose and Verse, plays
* 1922 – The Trembling of the Veil
* 1922 – Seven Poems and a Fragment
* 1923 – Plays and Controversies
* 1924 – The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems, poems and drama
* 1924 – Essays
* 1925 – The Bounty of Sweden
* 1925 – A Vision A, nonfiction, a much revised edition appeared in 1937, and a final revised edition was published in 1956
* 1926 – Estrangement
* 1926 – Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats, nonfiction; see also, Autobiography 1938
* 1927 – October Blast
* 1927 – Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction
* 1927 – The Resurrection, a short play first performed in 1934
* 1928 – The Tower, includes "Sailing to Byzantium"
* 1928 – The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary, poems
* 1928 – Sophocles' King Oedipus: a version for the modern stage
* 1929 – A Packet for Ezra Pound, poems
* 1929 – The Winding Stair published by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, now exceedingly rare

## 1930s

* 1932 – Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems
* 1933 – Collected Poems
* 1933 – The Winding Stair and Other Poems
* 1934 – Collected Plays
* 1934 – The King of the Great Clock Tower, poems
* 1934 – Wheels and Butterflies, drama
* 1934 – The Words Upon the Window Pane, drama
* 1935 – Dramatis Personae
* 1935 – A Full Moon in March, poems
* 1937 – A Vision B, nonfiction, a much revised edition of the original, which appeared in 1925; reissued with minor changes in 1956, and with further changes in 1962
* 1937 – Essays 1931 to 1936
* 1937 – Broadsides: New Irish & English Songs, edited by Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley
* 1938 – Autobiography, includes Reveries over Childhood and Youth (published in 1914), The Trembling of the Veil (1922), Dramatis Personae (1935), The Death of Synge (1928), and other pieces; see also Autobiographies (1926)
* 1938 – The Herne's Egg, drama
* 1938 – The Ten Principal Upanishads
* 1938 – New Poems
* 1939 – Last Poems and Two Plays poems and drama (posthumous)
* 1939 – On the Boiler, essays, poems and a play (posthumous)