William Butler Yeats: Criticism (1)

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Annual List of Yeats Criticism
Note that the contents of the above listings are not at all points coextensive and should therefore be browsed or searched separately.

See also preliminary listing of articles on Yeats in Eire-Ireland, attached.

Annual Listing of Yeats Criticism
    1916-1939
  • Horatio Sheafe Krans, William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival (NY: Macmillan 1904) [var. McClure Press n.d.].
  • J. M. Hone, William Butler Yeats: The Poet in Contemporary Ireland [Irishmen of Today] (Dublin & London: Maunsel 1916), and Do., facs. rep. NY: Haskell Hse. Publ. 1972), 134pp.
  • Dorothy M. Hoare, The Works of Morris and Yeats in Relation to Early Saga Literature (Cambridge UP 1937; rep. edn. NY: Russell & Russell 1971), viii, 179pp.
  • William Butler Yeats [Famous Irish Lives Ser.] (Dublin: Talbot Press 1935)
  • Allen Wade, ed., A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats [The Soho Bibliographies I] (London: Hart-Davis Nov. 1951), and Do. [rev. edn. 1958; 3rd rev. edn. 1968).

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    1940-1959
  • Stephen Gwynn, ed., Scattering Branches Tributes to the Memory of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1940).
  • Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (London: OUP 1941); Do. [rep. edn.] (London: Faber & Faber 1967), 202pp., and Do. [another edn.] foreword by Richard Ellmann (NY: OUP 1969),
  • J. M. Hone, W. B. Yeats 1865-1939 (London: Macmillan 1942; NY 1943), 535pp. with index; Do. (2nd edn. 1962).
  • V. K. Narayana, The Development of W. B. Yeats (1943) [review by George Orwell in Sonia Orwell & Ian Angus, eds., Collected Essays, Vol. 2., 1968, pp.312-17].
  • Peter Ure, Towards a Mythology: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (Liverpool UP 1946), Do. (NY: Russell 1967), 123pp., and Do. [rep. edn.] (Conn: Greenwood Press 1986), 123pp.
  • Cleanth Brooks, ‘Yeat’s Great Rooted Blossomer’, in The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (NY: Harcourt, Brace & World 1947), pp.178-91.
  • Northrop Frye, ‘Yeats and the Language of Symbolism’, The University of Toronto Quarterly, 17, 1 (Oct. 1947), pp.1-17.
  • Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks (London: Macmillan 1948, 1949; rev. edn. 1962; new edn. NY: W. W. Norton & Co. 1979), ix, 336pp.
  • A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet (Yale Univ. Press 1949), viii, 365pp. [extracts]; 2nd Edn. (London: Routledge & K. Paul 1962), viii, 365, 4 pls.; 3rd. Edn. (London: Cathie Kyle; Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996), x, 338pp.
  • Donald A. Stauffer, The Golden Nightingale: Essays on Some Principles of Poetry in the Lyrics of William Butler Yeats (NY: Macmillan 1949), 165pp., and Do. [rep. edn.] (NY: Hafner 1971).
  • T[homas] R. Henn, The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of Yeats (London: Methuen 1950; rev. edn. 1965), 375pp.
  • J. Hall & M. Steinmann, eds., The Permanence of Yeats: Selected Criticism (London: Macmillan 1950; 1961) [incls. W. H. Auden, ‘Yeats as an Example’, et al.; A. N. Jeffares, ‘Yeats and His Method of Writing Verse’].
  • George Whalley, ‘Yeats and Broadcasting’, in Allan Wade, ed., A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats (London: Hart-Davis 1951), pp.467-77.
  • Vivienne Koch, W. B. Yeats: The Tragic Phase - A Study of the Last Poems (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1951; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1952), and Do. [rep. edn.] (London: Archon 1969), 151pp.
  • Margaret Rudd, Divided Image: A Study of William Blake and W. B. Yeats (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1953), xv, 239pp., and Do. [reiss.] (NY: Haskell 1970).
  • Ursula Bridge, ed., W. B. Yeats & T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence 1901-1937 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1953).
  • Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats (London: Macmillan 1954; rep. Faber 1964; 1983), ix, 343pp. [Appendix, Chronology, and Notes, pp.250ff.; see extracts]
  • Virginia Moore, The Unicorn: William Butler Yeats’s Search For Reality (NY: Macmillan 1954), xvii, 519pp., ill. [port.], and Do. [rep. edn.] NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 1973).
  • G[eorge] S[utherland] Fraser, W. B. Yeats [British Council: “Writers and Their Work” ser. ] (London: Longmans, Green 1954, 1962, 1965), 40pp., ill.
  • Hazard Adams, Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision (Ithaca NY: Cornell UP 1955; reiss. NY: Russell & Russell 1968) 328pp.
  • Frank Kermode, Romantic Image (London: Routledge & Paul 1957).
  • R. P. Blackmur, Form and Value in Modern Poetry (NJ: Doubleday 1956)
  • George B. Saul, Prolegomena to the Study of Yeats’s Plays (Philadephia 1958).
  • John Unterecker, A Reader’s Guide to W. B. Yeats (NY: Noonday 1959).
  • Thomas R. Whitaker, Swan and Shadow: Yeats’s Dialogue with History (N. Carolina UP 1959; rep. 1964), and Do., [2nd edn.] (Washington: Catholic University of America 1989).
  • Monk Gibbon, The Masterpiece and the Man, Yeats As I Knew Him (1959).
  • F[rancis] A[lexander] C[auvin] Wilson, W. B. Yeats and Tradition (London: Gollancz 1958), 349pp.

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    1960-1969
  • Wilson, Yeats’s Iconography (London: Gollancz 1960), 286pp.
  • B. L. Reid, William Butler Yeats: The Lyric of Tragedy (Oklahoma UP 1961).
  • A[my] G[eraldine] Stock, W. B. Yeats, His Poetry and Thought (Cambridge UP 1961, 1964), xii, 254pp.
  • Giorgio Melchiori, The Whole Mystery of Art: Pattern into Poetry in the Work of W. B. Yeats (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960).
  • Morton Irvine Seiden, William Butler Yeats, The Poet as Mythmaker (East Lansing: Michigan State UP 1962), 397pp.
  • Richard Kain, Dublin in the Age of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce (Oklahoma UP 1962; 1992), xvi, 216pp., and Do. [rep. edn.] (Newton Abbot: David & Charles 1972), xi, 216pp.
  • Jon Stallworthy, Between the Lines: W. B. Yeats’s Poetry in the Making (OXford: Clarendon Press 1963).
  • John Unterecker, ed., Yeats: A Collection of Critical Essays (NJ: Prentice-Hall 1963), 180pp. [incls. Hugh Kenner, ‘The Sacred Book in the Arts’, pp.10-22.]
  • Oliver St John Gogarty, W. B. Yeats, A Memoir (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1963).
  • Peter Ure, Yeats the Playwright: A Commentary on Character and Design in the Major Plays (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1963), vii, 182pp.
  • Helen H[ennessy] Vendler, Yeats’s “Vision” and the Later Plays (Harvard UP 1963), ix, 286pp.
  • Denis Donoghue, ed., The Integrity of Yeats [RTE/Thomas Davis Lectures, 1960] (Cork: Mercier Press 1964), 70pp., & Do. (Folcroft Library Editions, 1971), [3], 70pp.
  • Thomas Parkinson, W. B. Yeats: The Later Poetry (Berkeley 1964; Cambridge UP 1964), xii, 260pp.
  • Priscilla Washburn Shaw, Rilke, Valéry and Yeats: The Domain of the Self (Rutgers UP 1964), 278pp.
  • Edward Engelberg, The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats’s Aesthetic (Toronto UP 1964; enl. edn. 1974); 2nd [rev.] edn. (Washington: Catholic University of America Press 1988), [viii]-xv, 284pp., ill. pls.
  • Robin Skelton & David R. Clark, eds., Irish Renaissance: A Gathering of Essays, Memoirs, and Letters from the Massachusetts Review (Dublin: Dolmen 1965) [see contents].
  • D. E. S. Maxwell & Suheil B. Bushrui, eds., Centenary Essays on the Art of W. B. Yeats (Ibadan UP [1965]) [incls. Ian Fletcher, ‘Yeats and Lissadell’, pp.67-77, W. H. Stevenson, ‘Yeats and Blake: The Use of Symbols’ pp.219-65].
  • Shotaro Oshima, W. B. Yeats and Japan (Hokuseido Press 1965), xiv, 198pp., ills. pls., ports. [+dupl. in pocket]; music & bibl. [ltd. edn. 1,000; section four includes interviews with Yeats in 1938; also with Jack Yeats, Lolly Yeats, and Junzo Sato].
  • T. R. Henn, W. B. Yeats and the Poetry of War [Warton Lecture 1965; Proc. Brit. Acad., Vol. 51] (OUP 1965), pp.[301]-319.
  • Kathleen Raine, ‘Yeats’s Debt to William Blake’, in Texas Quarterly, VIII, iv (1965), pp.165-181.
  • Frederick Grubb, ‘Tragic Joy: W. B. Yeats’, in A Vision of Reality: A Study of Liberalism in Twentieth-century Verse (London: Chatto & windus 1965), pp.25-45.
  • David R Clark, W. B. Yeats and the Theatre of Desolate Reality (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1965), rev. edn. with Rosalind Clarke (Washington Catholic Univ. of American Press 1993).
  • Corinna Salvadori, Yeats, Poet and Castiglione Courtier (Dublin: Allen Figgis 1965).
  • Leonard E. Nathan, The Tragic Drama of William Butler Yeats: Figures in a Dance (Columbia UP 1965, 1966), vii, 307pp.
  • Peter Faulkner, Yeats and the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1965).
  • Robin Skelton & Ann Saddlemeyer, eds., The World of W. B. Yeats, Essays in Perspective (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1965; Washington UP 1967), 231pp.
  • Denis Donoghue & J. R. Mulryne, eds., An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats (London: Edward Arnold 1965), [8], 196pp. [incl. Northrop Frye, et al.]
  • C. Salvatori, Yeats and Castiglione: Poet and Courtier (Dublin: Figgis 1965) [q.p.].
  • A. N. Jeffares & K. W. Cross, eds., In Excited Reverie: A Centenary Tribute to William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 (London: Macmillan 1965) [incls. Conor Cruise O’Brien, ‘Passion & Cunning’, pp.207-77].
  • Alex Zwerdling, Yeats and the Heroic Ideal (London: Peter Owen; NY: New York UP 1965), 196pp.
  • Curtis B. Bradford, Yeats at Work (Southern Illinois UP 1965), 407pp. [i.m. Ho. O. White 1885-1963].
  • Brian Farrington, Malachi Stilt-Jack: A Study of W. B. Yeats and His Work (London: [James] Connolly Publ. 1965).
  • Suheil Badi Bushrui, Yeats’s Verse-Plays: The Revisions 1900-1910 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1965; rep. 1972) xv, 240pp.
  • Balachandra Rajan, W. B. Yeats: A Critical Introduction [Hutchinson Univ. Library] (London: Hutchinson 1965), 207pp.
  • Donald Torchiana, W. B. Yeats and Georgian Ireland (Northwestern UP 1966), xvi, 378pp., and Do. [rep. edn.] (Washington: CUA Press 1992), xxii, 378pp.
  • Michael Yeats, ‘W. B. Yeats and Irish folk-song’, in Southern Folklore Quarterly, XXX (2 June, 1966), pp.153-78.
  • Hiro Ishibashi, Yeats and the Noh: Types of Japanese Beaty and Their Reflection in Yeats’s Plays, ed. Anthony Kerrigan (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1966)
  • William M. Murphy, ‘Father and Son, The Early Education of W. B. Yeats’, in Review of English Literature, ed. A. N. Jeffares (1967), pp.76-96.
  • Daniel Hoffmann, Barbarous Knowledge: Myths in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir (OUP 1967).
  • Joseph Ronsley, Yeats’s Autobiography: Life as Symbolic Pattern (Harvard UP 1968), 172pp.
  • Harold Bloom,‘Yeats and the Romantics’, in John Hollander, ed., Modern Poetry: Essays in Criticism (OUP 1968), [q.pp.]
  • Liam Miller, ed. & intro., The Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers, with a Preface by John Stallworthy (Dublin: Dolmen; London: OUP; Chester Springs, US: Dufour Edns. 1968), 523pp. [contribs. incl. Edwin Malins, Raymond Lister; Russell K. Alspach; Giles W. J. Telfer; Peter Faulkner; Hiro Ishabashi; George Brandon Saul; George Mills Harper; John Unterecker; Richard Ellmann; see contents].
  • Jon Stallworthy, ed., W. B. Yeats’s Last Poems: A Selection of Critical Essays [A Macmillan Casebook] (London: Macmillan 1968), 280pp. [incl. J. R. Mulryne, on ‘The Last Poems’, q.pp.]
  • A. N. Jeffares, A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan; Stanford: California UP 1968), xxxii, 563pp. ill. maps].
  • Robert Beum, The Poetic of William Butler Yeats (NY: Ungar 1969).
  • Hugh Kenner, ed., Yeats, Twentieth-Century Views (NY: Prentice Hall 1969).
  • Allen Grossman, Poetic Knowledge in the Early Yeats: A Study of “The Wind Among the Reeds” (Virginia UP 1969).
  • Peter Ure, W. B. Yeats and the Shakespearian Moment: On W. B. Yeats's Attitude Towards Shakespeare as Revealed in his Criticism and in his Work for the Theatre [guest lecture of 27 April 1966] (Belfast: IIS/QUB 1969), 25pp. [rep. in Yeats and Anglo-Irish literature, Liverpool UP, 1974].
  • Jon Stallworthy, Vision and Revision in Yeats’s Last Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969).

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    1970-1979
  • George Bornstein, Yeats and Shelley (Chicago UP 1970), xv, 239pp.
  • Bernard Levine, The Dissolving Image: The Spiritual-Esthetic Development of W. B. Yeats (Wayne State UP 1970), 180pp.
  • Phillip L. Marcus, Yeats and the Beginning of the Irish Renaissance (Cornell UP 1970; 2nd edn. NY: Syracuse UP 1987).
  • Andrew Parkin, ‘Similarities in the Plays of Yeats and Beckett’, in Ariel, 1, 3 (July 1970), pp.49-55.
  • Northrop Frye, ‘The Top of the Tower: A Study of the Imagery of Yeats’, in The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society (London: Methuen 1970), pp.257-77.
  • Donald James Gordon, W. B. Yeats: Images of a Poet: My Permanent or Impermanent Images (NY: Barnes & Noble 1970), 151pp.
  • Dwight Eddins, Yeats: The Nineteenth Century Matrix (Alabama UP 1971), 173pp .
  • Harold Bloom, Yeats (OUP 1970; London: Fontana 1971), 500pp., ill. [front. by Jack Coughlin].
  • Thomas Parkinson, W. B. Yeats - Self-Critic: A Study of His Early Verse and The Later Poetry [2 vols. in 1] California UP 1971), 456pp. [prev. printed 1951 & 1965, the former based on thesis of 1948].
  • Terry Eagleton, ‘History and Myth in Yeats’s “Easter 1916”’, in Essays in Criticism, XXI, 3 (July 1971), pp.248-60.
  • Raymond Cowell, ed., Critics on Yeats: Readings in Literary Criticism (Miami Press UP 1971), 114pp.
  • W. H. Pritchard, ed., W. B. Yeats: A Critical Anthology (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1972), pp.190-91.
  • Denis Donoghue, Yeats [Fontana Modern Masters; intro. by Frank Kermode] (London: Fontana/Collins 1971), xiii, 160pp.
  • Rupin W. Desai, Yeats’s Shakespeare (Northwestern UP 1971).
  • Roger McHugh, ‘The Municipal Gallery Revisited’, in Brian O’Doherty, The Irish Imagination 1959-1971 [Rosc Exhib. Cat.] (1971).
  • Thomas F. Parkinson, W. B. Yeats Self-Critic: A Study of His Early Verse [orig. 1951] with The Later Poetry [orig. 1964] (California UP 1971), xiv, 196pp.
  • James [John] Rees Moore, Masks of Love and Death: Yeats as Dramatist (Cornell UP 1971), 361pp.
  • Terry Eagleton, ‘History and Myth in Yeats’s “Easter 1916”, Essays in Criticism, 21,. 3 (1971), pp.248-60.
  • A. N. Jeffares, ‘Yeats’, in Seán Lucy, Irish Poets in English (Cork: Mercier Press 1972), pp.105-117.
  • W. H. Pritchard, W. B. Yeats, A Critical Anthology (Penguin 1972).
  • Daniel Albright, The Myth Against Myth: A Study of Yeats’s Imagination in Old Age (London: OUP 1972).
  • Ian Fletcher, ‘The Ellis-Yeats-Blake Manuscript Cluster’, in The Book Collector, 21 (1972), pp.72-94.
  • Kathleen Raine, Yeats, Tarot, and the Golden Dawn (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1972), 60pp.
  • William Robert Rodgers, Irish Literary Portraits: W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, George Moore, George Bernard Shaw, Oliver St John Gogarty, F.R. Higgins, A.E. [broadcast conversations with those who knew them] (London: BBC 1972).
  • Mary Helen Thuente, W. B. Yeats and Nineteenth-century Irish Literary Tradition (Kansas UP 1973) [microfilm/thesis].
  • Patrick J. Keane, ed., William Butler Yeats: A Collection of Criticism [Contemp. Studies in Lit. Ser.] (NY: McGraw-Hill 1973), v, 151pp.
  • D[aniel] A. Harris, Yeats, Coole Park & Ballylee (Johns Hopkins UP 1974).
  • Reg Skene, The Cuchulain Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1974), 278pp.
  • Peter Ure, Yeats and Anglo-Irish Literature: Critical Essays, with a memoir by Frank Kermode, ed. C. J. Rawson [Liverpool English Texts & Studies] xvi, 292pp.
  • C. L. Wrenn, W. B. Yeats: A Literary Study (FLE 1973) [ltd. edn. 150].
  • Harbans Rai Bachchan, W. B. Yeats and Occultism: A Study of his Works in Relation to Indian Lore, the Cabbala, Swedenborg, Boehme and Theosophy (Delhi: Luzac 1974; NY: Samuel Weiser Inc. 1974), xxii, 296pp.
  • Kathleen Raine, ‘Death-in-Life and Life-in-Death’: ‘Cuchulain Comforted’ and ‘News for the Delphic Oracle’ (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1974), 64pp., incl. 20 ills.
  • George Mills Harper, ‘Go Back to Where You Belong’: Yeats’s Return from Exile (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1974), 44pp.
  • George Mills Harper, Yeats’s Golden Dawn: The Influence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on the Life and Art of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1974), 322pp.; rep. edn. (Wellingborough: Aquarius Press [1987]), pb., 322pp.
  • Colin Meir, The Ballads and Songs of W. B. Yeats: The Anglo-Irish Heritage in Subject and Style (London: Macmillan; NY: Barnes & Noble 1974; rep. Macmillan 1983), 141pp.
  • Robert O’Driscoll, Symbolism and Some Implications of the Symbolic Approach: W. B. Yeats During the Eighteen-Nineties [Yeats Papers, 9] (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1975), 84pp.
  • George Mills Harper, ed., Yeats and The Occult [Yeats Studies Series; gen. eds. Robert O’Driscoll & Lorna Reynolds] (London: Macmillan 1976), iii-xxi, 322pp. ill. [8pp. of pls.; see contents].
  • Sheila O’Sullivan, ‘W. B. Yeats’s Use of Irish Oral and Literary Tradition’, in Bo Almqvist et al., eds. Heritage: Essays and Studies presented to Seamus Ó Duilearga (1975), pp.266-79 [also in Béaloideas, 39-41, 1971-73 [1975], pp.266-79.
  • A. N. Jeffares & A. S. Knowland, A Commentary on the Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1975).
  • D. E. S. Maxwell, ‘Time’s Strange Excuse: W. B. Yeats and the Poets of the Thirties’, in Journal of Modern Literature, 4, 3 (Feb. 1975), pp.717-34.
  • Brenda S. Webster, Yeats: A Psychoanalytical Study (London: Macmillan 1975), 246pp.
  • George Mills Harper, The Mingling of Heaven and Earth: Yeats’s Theory of Theatre (NY: Humanities Press 1975).
  • Edward O’Shea. Yeats as Editor (Dublin: Dolmen Press; distrib. by Humanities Press (NJ) 1975), 80 pp., ill [1 facs.], 25cm.
  • Frank Tuohy, Yeats: An Illustrated Biography (London & NY: Macmillan 1976; Herbert Press 1991), 232pp., ill. [16pp. of pls.].
  • James W. Flannery, W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The Early Abbey Theatre in Theory and Practice (Yale UP 1976), 404pp. [see extract].
  • Kathleen McGrory, John Eugene Unterecker, eds., Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: New Light on Three Modern Irish Writers (Bucknell UP 1976), 184pp. [incls. Chronological Bibliography of Works compiled by William York Tindall, pp.183-84].
  • Northrop Frye, ‘The Rising of the Moon: A Study of A Vision’, in Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth and Society (Indiana UP 1976), pp.245-74 [also in Denis Donoghue & J. R. Mulryne, eds., An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats, 1965, pp.8-33].
  • Richard Taylor, The Drama of W.B. Yeats: Irish Myth and the Japanese No (Yale UP 1976), xiii, 247pp.
  • Geoge Bornstein, Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens (Chicago UP 1976) [actually 1977], xiii, 263pp.
  • Robert Hogan, et al., ‘Yeats and the Critics: A Review-Symposium’, in The Journal of Irish Literature, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May 1976) [contribs. incl. Donald Torchiana, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, &c.].
  • James McGarry, ed Place Names in the Writings of W. B. Yeats, intro. by Edward Malins (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1976).
  • Liam Miller, The Noble Drama of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Dolmen Press; NJ: Humanities Press 1977), xiv, 365pp., ill. [8] lvs. of pls.]; 26 cm.
  • Barton R. Friedman, Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: The Cuchulain Cycle of W. B. Yeats [Princeton Essays in Literature] (Princeton UP 1977).
  • Daniel S. Lenoski, ‘The Metaphysics of Yeats’s Aesthetics’, in Anglo-Irish Studies, III (1977), pp.19-34.
  • Edward Halim Mikhail, ed., W. B. Yeats: Interviews and Recollections, 2 vols.(London: Macmillan 1977).
  • Denis Donoghue, ‘Yeats: The Question of Symbolism’, in Joseph Ronsley, ed., Myth and Reality in Irish Literature (Wilfred Laurier UP 1977), pp.99-115.
  • Seamus Deane, ‘Yeats, Ireland and Revolution’, in Crane Bag, 1.2 (1977), rep. in The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies (1982), pp.139-147.
  • Mary Katharine Flannery, Yeats and Magic: The Earlier Works (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1977).
  • William Murphy, The Yeats Family and the Pollexfens of Sligo (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1977).
  • Katherine Worth, The Irish Drama from Yeats to Beckett (London: Athlone Press; US: Humanities Press 1978).
  • Karin Strand, ‘W. B. Yeats’ American Lecture Tours’ (Ph.D.; Northwestern Univ. 1978).
  • Andrew Parkin, The Dramatic Imagination of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1978), 208p.
  • Macha L. Rosenthal, Sailing into the Unknown: Yeats, Pound, and Eliot (OUP 1978), 224pp.
  • William Murphy, Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (Cornell UP 1978), 680pp., ills. [map, ports].
  • Mary H. Thuente, ‘W. B. Yeats and Celtic Ireland 1885-1900’, in P. J. Drury, ed., Anglo-Irish Studies, IV (1979), pp.91-104; G[eorge] J. Watson, ‘W. B. Yeats: From “Unity of Culture” to “Anglo-Irish Solitude”’, in Irish Identity and the Literary Revival (London: Croom Helm 1979), pp.87-150;
  • Anthony Bradley, William Butler Yeats (NY: Ungar 1979), 306pp.

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    1980-1989
  • Mary Helen Thuente, W. B. Yeats and Irish Folklore (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1980; Totowa: Barnes & Noble 1981), x, 286pp.
  • A. Norman Jeffares, ed., Yeats, Sligo and Ireland, Essays to mark the 21st Yeats Summer School [Irish Literary Studies 6] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), 267pp. [see contents]
  • James Olney, The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial Philosophy - Yeats and Jung (California UP 1980).
  • George Mills Harper, W. B. Yeats and W. T. Horton: The Record of an Occult Friendship (London: Macmillan 1980), x, 160pp.
  • Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Yeats, Ireland and Fascism (London: Macmillan 1981), viii, 251pp.
  • Grattan Freyer, W. B. Yeats and the Anti-Democratic Tradition (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1981).
  • Alan Warner, ‘William Butler Yeats’, in A Guide to Anglo-Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1981), pp.169-81;.
  • Daniel T. O’Hara, Tragic Knowledge: Yeats’s Autobiography and Hermeneutics (NY: Columbia UP 1981).
  • Bernard G. Krimm, W. B. Yeats and the Emergence of the Irish Free State, 1918-1939 (NY, Troy: Whitston Publ. 1981), xvi, 305pp.
  • Vinod Sena, W. B. Yeats: The Poet as Critic (Delhi: Macmillan 1980; London: Macmillan 1981), xii, 232pp.
  • Dudley Young, Out of Ireland, the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (Brandon 1982), 169pp.
  • Shirley C. Neuman, Some One Myth: Yeats’s Autobiographical Prose [Yeats Papers, 19] (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1980, 1982), 160pp. , ill. [2 ports].
  • Richard F. Peterson, William Butler Yeats [Twayne’s English Authors Series, 328] (Boston: Twayne 1982), 228pp. [1 port.].
  • Otto Bohlmann, Yeats and Nietzsche: An Exploration of Major Nietzche Echoes in the Writings of William Butler Yeats (London: Macmillan 1982), xviii, 222pp., ill. [4 pls.]
  • Anthony Cronin, ‘W. B. Yeats: Containing Contradictions’, in Heritage Now: Irish Literature in the English Language (Dingle: Brandon 1982), pp.87-94.
  • Gale C. Schricker, A New Species of Man: The Poetic Persona of W. B. Yeats (Bucknell UP; London: AUP 1982), 214pp. [winner of the Firdst Bucknell Univ. Press Award]
  • Richard Ellmann, Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: Four Dubliners (London: Hamilton 1982); also [Library of Congress] (NY: G. Braziller 1986), and Do. [another edn.] (London: Cardinal 1986), x, 106pp.
  • Douglas N. Archibald, Yeats [Irish Studies Ser.] (Syracuse UP 1983), xiv, 280pp.
  • A. S. Knowland, W. B. Yeats: Dramatist of Vision, with a preface by Cyril Cusack [Irish Lit. Studies, 17] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; NJ: Barnes & Noble 1983), xvi, 256pp.
  • David R. Clark, Yeats at Songs and Choruses ( Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1983), xxiv, 283pp., ills.
  • Andrew Parkin, ‘Women in the Plays of W. B. Yeats’, in Woman in Irish Legend, Life and Literature [Irish Literary Studies, 14] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1983) [q.pp.].
  • Jacqueline Genet, ‘Blake et Yeats: Deux modes d’approche d’une Même tradition’, in Études Irlandaises, [nov. sér.] (Dec. 1983), pp.21-39.
  • Michael Steinman, Yeat’s Heroic Figures: Wilde, Parnell, Swift, Casement (London: Macmillan 1983).
  • W. H. O’Donnell, A Guide to the Prose Fiction of W. B. Yeats (Ann Arbor: Michigan UP 1983).
  • Augustine Martin: W. B. Yeats [Gill’s Irish Lives] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1983), 146pp.
  • Terence Diggory, Yeats and American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self (Princeton UP 1983).
  • Geoffrey Thurley, The Turbulent Dream: Passion and Politics in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats Queensland University Press 1983).
  • Richard Taylor, A Reader’s Guide to the Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1984), ix, 197pp.
  • Karen Dorn, Players and Painted Stage: The Theatre of W. B. Yeats (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf; NJ: Barnes & Noble 1984), 143pp.
  • Elizabeth Cullingford, ed., Yeats - Poems, 1919-1935: A Casebook [Casebook Ser.] (London: Macmillan 1984), 240pp.
  • Graham Hough, The Mystery Religion of W. B. Yeats (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1984).
  • Joseph Adams, Yeats and the Masks of Syntax (London: Macmillan 1984), [192]pp.
  • Okifumi Komescu, The Double Perspective of Yeats Aesthetic (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1984).
  • Taylor, A Reader’s Guide to the Plays of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan London: Macmillan 1984).
  • Deane, ‘Yeats and the Idea of Revolution’, in Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980 (London: Faber & Faber 1985), pp.38-50.
  • Terry Eagleton, ‘Politics and Sexuality in W. B. Yeats’, in The Crane Bag, 9, 2 (1985), pp.138-42.
  • Donald Masterson & Edward O’Shea, ‘Code Breaking and Myth Making: The Ellis-Yeats Edition of Blake’s Works’, in Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual, No. 3 (London: Macmillan 1985), pp.53-80.
  • Edward O’Shea, A Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats’s Library (NY: Garland Press 1985), xxiii, 390pp.
  • Stephen Putzel, Reconstructing Yeats: “The Secret Rose” and “The Wind Among the Reeds” (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1985), 242pp.
  • Peter Kuch, Yeats and AE: “The Antagonism that Unites Dear Friends” (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1986), 291pp.
  • Joseph Hassett, Yeats and The Poetics of Hate (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1986).
  • Richard J. Finneran, ed., Critical Essays on W. B. Yeats (Boston: G. K. Hall 1986), 258pp.
  • Kathleen Raine, Yeats the Initiate: Essays on Certain Themes in the Work of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Dolmen Press; London: Allen & Unwin 1986), and Do. [another edn.] (NY: Barnes & Noble Books 1990), xxiv, 449pp, ill.
  • Douglas Archibald, ‘On Editing Yeats’s Autobiographies’ , Gaeliana 8 (1986).
  • Elizabeth Bergmann Loiseaux, Yeats and the Visual Arts (Rutgers UP 1986; Syracuse Press [2003]), 264pp.
  • Heather Martin, W. B. Yeats: Metaphysician as Dramatist (Wilfrid Laurier UP 1986), 153pp.
  • George M. Harper, The Making of Yeats’s “A Vision”: A Study of Automatic Script, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan 1987), Vol. I: 301pp; Vol. 2: 463pp.
  • Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Yeats and the Visual Arts (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers UP [1987]), 238pp.;
  • Frances Nesbitt Oppel, Mask and Tragedy: Yeats and Nietzsche, 1902-10 (Virginia UP 1987), x, 255pp.
  • Patrick J. Keane, Yeats’s Interactions with Tradition (Missouri UP 1987), xx, 332pp.
  • Peter Faulkner, Yeats [Open Univ. Guides to Literature] (Milton Keynes: Open UP 1987).
  • Maeve Good, W. B. Yeats and the Creation of the Tragic Universe (London: Macmillan; NJ: Barnes & Noble 1987), ix, 176pp. [formerly TCD thesis].
  • Barbara L. Croft, ‘Stylistic Arrangements': A study of William Butler Yeats's “A Vision” (London: AUP 1987), 195pp.
  • Ian Fletcher, W. B. Yeats and His Contemporaries (Brighton: Harvester Press 1987), 350pp.
  • Marjorie Reeves & Warwick Gould, Joachim de Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: OUP 1987), 400pp. [incls. account of Yeats’s “Tables of the Law”].
  • Eitel Timm, W. B. Yeats: A Century of Criticism (S. Carolina: Camden House 1987), 101pp.
  • Donald T. Torchiana, ‘W. B. Yeats and Italian Idealism’, in Wolfgang Zach & Heinz Kosok eds., Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, Vol. II: Comparison and Impact (Tübingen: Guntar Narr Verlag, 1987), pp.245-53.
  • David G. Wright, Yeats’s Myth of Self: The Autobiographical Prose (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1987).
  • David Young, In Troubled Mirror: A Study of Yeats’s “The Tower” (Iow UP 1987).
  • Richard Ellmann, W. B. Yeats’s Second Puberty (Washington DC: Central Serv. Div., Library of Congress [1987]), 32pp.
  • Paul Scott Stanfield, Yeats and the Politics of the 1930s (London: Macmillan 1988), x, 227pp. [PhD., Northernwestern U., 1984].
  • Daniel S. Lenoski, ‘The Symbolism of the Early Yeats: Occult and Religious Backgrounds’, in Studies of the Literary Imagination, XIV, 1 (Spring 1981), pp.85-100.
  • Conor Cruise O’Brien, Passion and Cunning: Essays on Nationalism, Terrorism, and Revolution (1988) [incls. title essay formerly in Jeffares, ed., In Excited Reverie, 1965].
  • A. Norman Jeffares: W. B. Yeats: A New Biography (London: Hutchinson 1988; reps. 1989, 1990, 2001), x, 374pp. [see extracts]
  • Patrick J. Keane, “Terrible Beauty”: Yeats, Joyce, Ireland, and the Myth of the Devouring Female Missouri UP 1988), xvii, 146pp., ill.
  • Edward Said, Yeats and Decolonialization [Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature] (Derry: Field Day 1988), 27pp.;
  • Frank Kinahan, Yeats, Folklore, and Occultism: Contexts of the Early Work and Thought (Boston: Unwin Hyman 1988), 256pp., ill.
  • Steven Helmling, The Esoteric Comedies of Carlyle, Newman and Yeats (Cambridge UP 1988), xi, 273pp. [espec. chap. on A Vision].
  • James Longenbach, Stone Cottage, Pound, Yeats, and Modernism (OUP 1988), xviii, 329pp.
  • A. Norman Jeffares, ed., Yeats The European (Gerrards Cross Colin Smythe 1989), 356pp., 8 pls.
  • Joann Gardner, Yeats and the Rhymers’ Club: A Nineties’ Perspective (NY: Lang 1989), 249pp.
  • John Harwood, Olivia Shakespear and W. B. Yeats: After Long Silence (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1989), xvi, 218pp.

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    1990-1999
  • Brian Arkins, Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats [Irish Literary Studies 32] (Gerards Cross: Colin Smythe 1990), 263pp.
  • Stan Smith, W. B. Yeats: A Critical Introduction (London: Macmillan; NY: Rowman & Littlefield 1990), ix, 179pp.
  • Suheil B. Bushrui & Tim Prentki, An International Companion to the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (Barnes & Noble Books 1990), 255pp.
  • Rachel V. Billighemier, Wheels of Eternity: A Comparative Study of William Blake and William Butler Yeats, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1990), 242pp. [Bibl. pp.227-37; incorp. here.]
  • Ravindran Sankaran, W. B. Yeats and Indian Tradition (Delhi: Konark 1990).
  • Masaru Sekine & Christopher Murray, Yeats and the Noh: A Comparative Study, with contributions by Augustine Martin [Irish literary Studies, 38] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1990), xviii, 182pp., ill. [16pp. of pls.], 22cm.
  • Jahan Ramazani, Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime (Yale UP 1990).
  • Nicholas Drake, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats [Penguin Critical Studies] (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1991).
  • Helen Vendler, Yeats’s Paradises (SF: Arion Press 1991), 20pp.
  • Leonard Orr, ed., Yeats and Postmodernism (Syracuse, NY, Syracuse UP 1991), 204pp. [see contents].
  • Wayne K. Chapman, Yeats and English Renaissance Literature (London: Macmillan 1991), x, 290pp.
  • Jacqueline Genet, ‘Yeats and the Big House’, in Jacqueline Genet, ed., The Big House in Ireland (Dingle: Brandon; NY: Barnes & Noble 1991), pp.255-80;
  • Leonard Orr, ed., Yeats and Postmodernism (Syracuse UP 1991), vii, 204pp. [see contents].
  • Philip L. Marcus, Yeats and Artistic Power (London: Macmillan 1992), 263pp.
  • Deirdre Toomey, Yeats and Women (London: Macmillan 1992), 442pp.
  • Michael North, The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound (Cambridge UP 1991), 241pp.
  • Peter Th. M. G. Liebregts, Centaurs in the Twilight: W. B. Yeats’s Use of the Classical Tradition (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1993).
  • Robert Welch, ‘W. B. Yeats: “The Wheel Where the World is Butterfly”’, in Changing States: Transformations in Modern Irish Writing (London: Routledge 1993), pp.55-79.
  • Deborah Fleming, ed., Learning the Trade: Essays on W. B. Yeats and Contemporary Poetry (Connecticut: Locust Hill 1993).
  • Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Gender and History in Yeats’s Love Poetry (Cambridge UP 1993; Syracuse UP 1996), xiii, 334pp.
  • Edward Malins, A Preface to Yeats, 2nd edn., rev. with additional material by John Purkis [Higher Ed. Ser.] (London: Longman 1994), 212pp.
  • Catherine Fahy, W. B. Yeats and His Circle [1989; rep. edn.](Syracuse UP 1994), 64pp., ill. [123 photos].
  • M. L. Rosenthal, Running to Paradise: Yeats’s Poetic Art (OUP 1994), xvi, 362pp.
  • William M. Murphy, Family Secrets, William Butler Yeats and His Relatives (Syracuse UP 1994; Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1995), xxix, 534pp.
  • Anthony L. Johnston, The Verbal Art of W. B. Yeats (Pisa: Edizioni Ets. 1994), 178pp.
  • Edward Larrissy, Yeats the Poet: The Measures of Difference (London [Brighton] & NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1994), xii, 226pp. [see contents]
  • David Pierce, Yeats’s Worlds: Ireland, England, and the Poetic Imagination (Yale UP 1995), 352pp.[346pp.], col. ill., 36pp.
  • Julian Moynihan, ‘W. B. Yeats and the End of Anglo-Irish Literature’ [198]; XI: ‘After the End: The Anglo-Irish Postmortem’ [Chap. X], in Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture ( Princeton UP 1995), pp.198-223.
  • Helen Vendler, Yeats at Sonnets [Parnell lecture; 1995; Magdalene College Occasional Papers, 12] (Cambridge: Magdalene College 1996), 30pp.
  • Declan Kiberd, ‘Childhood and Ireland’, in Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (London: Jonathan Cape 1995), pp.102-29 [see ‘The National Longing for Form’, pp.115-29, ‘Revolt Into Style - Yeatsian Poetics’ pp.305-14; ‘The Winding Stair’, pp.438-53; et passim].
  • Roselinde Supheert, Yeats in Holland: The Reception of the Work of W. B. Yeats in the Netherlands before Word War Two (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1995), 319pp.
  • Deborah Fleming, ‘A Man Who Does not Exist’: The Irish Peasant in the Works of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge (Michigan UP 1995).
  • Julian Moynihan, ‘W. B. Yeats and the End of Anglo-Irish Literature’, in Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture (Princeton UP 1995), pp.198-223; also, XI: After the End: The Anglo-Irish Postmortem’ (p.224ff.).
  • Sylvia Ellis, The Plays of W. B. Yeats: Yeats and the Dancer [Univ. of Wales’ (London: Macmillan; NY: St. Martin’s Press] 1995), 370pp.
  • Hazard Adams, The Book of Yeats’s Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition (Ann Arbor: Michigan UP 1995), xiv, 178pp.
  • Peter Liebregts & Peter Van de Kamp, eds., Tumult of Images: Essays on W. B. Yeats and Politics [Conference Proceedings] (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press 1995), 249pp.
  • Keith Alldritt, W. B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu (London: John Murray; NY: Clark Potter 1996), 388pp.
  • Marjorie Elizabeth Howes, Yeats’s Nations: Gender, Class and Irishness (Cambridge UP 1996), ix, 240pp.
  • Jonathan Allison, ed., Yeats’s Political Identities: Selected Essays (Michigan UP 1996) [see contents].
  • Michael J. Sidnell, Yeats’s Poetry and Poetics (NY: St. Martin’s Press [Macmillan] 1996), 208pp.
  • William T. Gorski, Yeats and Alchemy (NY: SUNY Press 1996), 223pp.
  • Anthony Jordan, Willie Yeats and the Gonne MacBrides (Westport Books 1997), 216pp.
  • David Holdeman, Much Labouring: The Texts and Authors of Yeats’s First Modernist Books [Editorial Theory & Literary Criticism (Michigan UP 1997), xiii, 255pp., ill.
  • Janis Tedesco Haswell, Pressed Against Divinity: W. B. Yeats’s Feminine Masks (Northern Illinois UP 1997), 189pp.
  • R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats - A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 (OUP 1997), xxxi, 640pp. [32pp. pls.];
  • Anthony Flinn, Approaching Authority: Transpersonal Gestures in the Poetry of Yeats, Eliot, and Williams (Bucknell UP 1997), 236pp.
  • Daniel Albright, Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot and the Science of Modernism (Cambridge UP 1997), x, 307pp. [see contents]
  • James Fisher, ‘W. B. Yeats’, in Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook , ed. Bernice Schrank & William Demastes (CT: Greenwood Press 1997), pp.402-26.
  • Edward Larrissy, W. B. Yeats [Writers and Their Work] (Plymouth [Estover, Northcote House]: British Council 1998), 82pp.
  • Eugene O’Brien, The Question of National Identity in the Writings of W. B. Yeats (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press 1998), xiii, 283pp.
  • Vicki Mahaffey, States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment (NY: OUP 1998), xix, 276pp., ill.
  • Nicholas Meihuizen, Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1998), 190pp.
  • Kathleen Raine, W. B. Yeats & The Learning of the Imagination (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press 1999), 119pp.
  • David Richman, Passionate Action: Yeats’s Mastery of Drama (Delaware UP 2000), 199pp.
  • Brenda Maddox, Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats (London: HarperCollins 1999), 474pp.
  • Terence Brown, W. B. Yeats: A Critical Life (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1999), 410pp. [ded. to Brendan Kennelly; rep. as The Life of W. B. Yeats, Oxford: Blackwell 2001].

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  • Jefferson Holderidge, Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime (Dublin: UCD Press 2000), 272pp.
  • Susan Johnston Graf, W. B. Yeats: Twentieth-century Magus: An In-depth Study of Yeats's Esoteric Practices & Beliefs, including Excerpts from His Magical Diaries (NY: Samuel Weiser Inc. 2000), 224pp.
  • Yug Mohit Chaudry, Yeats: The Irish Literary Revival and the Politics of Print (Cork UP 2001), 280pp.
  • R. F. Foster, The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland (London: Penguin 2001, 2002), ‘Yeats at War: Poetic Strategies and Political Reconstruction’ [pp.58-79]; ‘“When the Newspapers Have Forgotten Me”: Yeats, Obituarists and Irishness’ [pp.80-94]; ‘The Normal and the National: Yeats and the Boundaries of Irish Writing’ [pp.95-112]; 7: ‘Square-built Power and Fiery Shorthand: Yeats, Carleton and the Irish Nineteenth Century’ [pp.113-26].
  • David Pierce, ed., W. B. Yeats: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. ([London:] Helm Press 2001).
  • Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats (Oxford: Blackwell 2001), 432pp. [prev. as W. B. Yeats: A Critical Life (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1999);
  • Ann Saddlemyer, Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats (Oxford UP 2002), 808pp. [App., Notes & Index, 655ff. [see extract]
  • Declan Kiberd, ‘W.B. Yeats - Building Amid Ruins’, in Irish Classics (London: Granta 2000), pp.440-62.
  • Anthony J. Jordan, W. B. Yeats: Vain, Glorious Lout - A Maker of Modern Ireland (Westport Books 2003), 200pp. [by defender of John MacBride against hostile Yeatsians].
  • Barbara A. Suess, Progress and Identity in the Plays of W. B. Yeats, 1892-1907 [Studies in Major Literary Authors, 25] (London: Routledge 2003), xx, 189pp.
  • Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Yeats and the Visual Arts (Syracuse UP 2003), 264pp.
  • R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats - A Life, II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Oxford: OUP 2003), 798pp. [with index]
  • Christine Finn, Past Poetic Archaeology in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney (London: Duckworth 2004), 214pp.
  • Helen Vendler, ‘W. B. Yeats Thinking: Thinking in Images, Thinking in Assertions’, in Poets Thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats (Harvard UP 2004), q.pp. [Chap. 4].
  • Alex Owen, The Place of Enchantment: British Ocultism and the Culture of the Modern (Chicago UP 2004), 355pp. [treats of Yeats and Annie Besant].
  • Michael O’Neill, A Routledge Sourcebook on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Routledge 2004), xv, 194pp.
  • Marjorie Howes & John Kelly, The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge UP 2004), 242pp. [4]pp. [see contents]
  • W. J. McCormack, Blood Kindred: The Politics of W. B. Yeats and his Death (London: Pimlico 2005), 224pp.
  • Brian Devine, Yeats - The Master of Sound (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2005), 374pp.
  • John Greening, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (Greenwich Exchange 2005), 100pp.
  • Margaret Mills Harper, Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats (Oxford: OUP 2006), xii, 382pp.
  • David Holdeman, ed., The Cambridge Introduction to W.B. Yeats (NY Cambridge UP 2006), xii, 148pp. [see contents];
  • Nally, Claire V. ‘National Identity Formation in W. B. Yeats’s A Vision’, in Irish Studies Review, 14, 1 (Feb. 2006), pp.57–67 [author of Manchester PhD diss.; see under Terry Eagleton, notes, supra];
  • Klaus Peter Jochum, ed., The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe (London: Continuum 2006), 400pp.
  • Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (Harvard UP [Belknap Press]; OUP 2007), 428pp. [contents].
  • Helen Vendler, Primitivismus und das Groteske: Yeats' Supernatural Songs [Themen, 88] München: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung [2007]), 87pp., ill. [incls. poems in English and German trans. ]
  • David  Holdeman & Ben Levitas, eds., William Butler Yeats in Context (Cambridge UP 2009).
  • David Dwan, The Great Community: Culture and Nationalism in Ireland (Field Day Co. / Keough-Naughton Inst. of Notre Dame UP 2009), [xi], 232pp. [prev. “Cultural Nationalism and Mass Culture in Yeats's Ireland”. London Univ. PhD of 2002].
  • George Cusack, The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J. M. Synge (London: Routledge 2009), 210pp.
  • Timothy O’Leary, Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book (London: Continuum 2009), 192pp. [incls. analysis of Swift].
  • John Wilson Foster, ‘Emblems of Diversity: Yeats and the Great War’, in Between Shadows: Modern Irish Writing and Culture (Dublin: IAP 2009), pp.3-16.
  • Heather Ingman, A History of the Irish Short Story (Cambridge UP 2009) [incls. reading of his fiction in Chap. 3: Fin de siècle visions: Irish short fiction at the turn of the century].
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