W. B. Yeats bibliography
This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. Yeats, winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a foremost 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 " in poetry" articles for works of poetry, and " in literature" articles for other works.
1880s
- 1885 - "Song of the Fairies" & "Voices," poems in the Dublin University Review
- 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
- 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"
- 1893 - The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
- 1893 - The Rose, poems
- 1893 - , 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"
- 1903 - Where There is Nothing, play
- 1903 - The Hour Glass, play, copyright 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 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 - 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, edited by Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley
- 1938 - Autobiography, includes Reveries over Childhood and Youth, The Trembling of the Veil, Dramatis Personae, The Death of Synge, and other pieces; see also Autobiographies
- 1938 - The Herne's Egg, drama
- 1938 - New Poems
- 1939 - Last Poems and Two Plays poems and drama
- 1939 - On the Boiler, essays, poems and a play