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 – CrosswaysThe Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Definitive Edition, With the Author's Final Revisions. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York, NY 1956 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" but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose") 1893 – The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction 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 – 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, 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 1937Broadsides: 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)
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External links
Complete works at Archive.org Poetry Foundation web page with an extensive Yeats bibliography A Collection of Writing