William Butler Yeats: Works 1 - Listings

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Modern Editions
Collected & standard editions
Collected works [Macmillan Edn. ]
Collected works - Cornell Yeats
Variorum editions of the works		 Collected & sel. works (contemp.)
Posthumous & scholarly editions
Correspondence [letters]
Miscellaneous compilations
Contemp. Editions (Poetry, Plays & Fiction)
Poetry collections [Dublin first edns.]
Poetry collections [London 1st edns.]
Plays [separate editions] 		Plays [collected edns.]
Fiction [short stories & novels]
Prose & Editorial Work
Criticism & miscellaneous prose
Criticism (selected articles)
A Vision [Edns. of 1925 & 1937] 		Autobiographical writings
Anthologies & editions
Journals & Broadsides

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Website sources
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) and The Celtic Twilight (1902), In the Seven Woods (1903), and Later Poems (1922), together with prefaces and notes to folk-tale works of Lady Gregory and Tagore, are all available online at www.sacred-texts.com
 
Note: The site gives an account of relevant copyright law in respect of the UK, EU and USA and operates on the basis of the US regulations where volumes issued prior to 1 Jan. 1923 are out of copyright. The EU copyright expires in 2009 (being date of death + 70 years). [Accessed 28.07.2009].

Special collections
See the National Library of Ireland’s Guide to the Personal Library of W. B. Yeats [attached - as pdf] and “A Selection of Annotated Works in the Personal Library of W. B. Yeats”, derived from same [attached - as text].

Modern Editions
Collected & standard editions
  • Poems [1st edn.] (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1895) [ltd. edn. 750; Wade 15];
  • The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1933; 2 vols., 1949), and Do . [new edn.] (London: Macmillan 1950, 1951 [corrected], &c.; 8th imp. 1956 et seq.);
  • Richard J. Finneran, ed., The Poems: A New Edition [3rd edn.] (London: Macmillan 1983, 1984) [see details];
  • Daniel Albright, ed., W. B. Yeats: The Poems [Everyman] (London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1990; 1992), 940pp.;
  • The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1934; later edns. incl. 1960, 1969);
  • Essays and Introductions (London: Macmillan 1961), 529pp. see contents];
  • A. N. Jeffares, ed., Selected Poems (London: Macmillan 1962);
  • Jeffares, ed., Selected Plays (London: Macmillan 1964; Pan Books 1974);
  • Jeffares, ed., Selected Prose (London: Macmillan 1964, & edns.);
  • Jeffares, ed., Selected Criticism (London: Macmillan 1964; Pan Books 1980);
  • Donald R. Pearce, ed., Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats (Indiana UP 1960);
  • Explorations, selected by Mrs W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1962);
  • Walter Starkie, ed., The Celtic Twilight and a Selection of Early Poems (NY: Signet Classics 1962);
  • John P. Frayne & Colton Johnson, eds., Uncollected Prose, Reviews: Articles, and Other Miscellaneous Prose, 1897-1939, 2 vols. (NY: Columbia UP 1970, 1975);
  • R. J. Finneran, ed. W. B. Yeats, The Poems: A New Edition (London: Macmillan [3rd edn.] 1983, 1984) [issued along with Editing Yeats’s Poems: A Reconsideration (1983);
  • A. Norman Jeffares, Yeats’s Poems, with appendix by Warwick Gould (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989);
  • A. Norman Jeffares, ed., A Vision and Related Writings [1937 Revised Version] (London: Arena 1990);
  • Augustine Martin, ed. & intro., W.B. Yeats: Collected Poems (London: Arena 1990), x, 544pp., ill. [ports., facs.], 24cm.
  • Daniel Albright, ed., W. B. Yeats: The Poems [Everyman’s Library, 103] (London: Dent 1990; 2nd impr. 1991), lxxii, 868pp., 24cm., Do. [new edn.] (London: Dent 1992), lxxii, 868pp.; Do. [another edn.] (London: Campbell 1992), lxxii, 868pp. [20cm.]; Do. [new edn. updated] (London: Dent 1994), lxxxii, 868pp. [re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type; incls. themed intro., chronology, plot summary and selected criticism];
  • Ian Hamilton, ed., W. B. Yeats, Selected Poems (London: Bloomsbury 1992), 144pp. [emphasis on love poetry];
  • Robert Welch, ed., W. B. Yeats: Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend, and Myth (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1993), 455pp. [see contents];
  • Poems [rep. of 1895 Poems] (Spelsbury: Woodstock Books 1994);
  • The Wind Among the Reeds [1899] [Decadents, Symbolists, Anti-Decadents series] (Woodstock Books 1994).
  • James Pethica, sel. & ed., Yeats’s Poetry, Drama, and Prose: Authoritative Texts; Contexts [and] Criticism [Norton Critical Edition] (NY & London: W. W. Norton & Co. 2000), 518pp. [ded. ‘For Warwick and Deirdre [Gould]’];
  • Richard Allen Cave, ed., Selected Plays of W. B. Yeats [Penguin 20th-century Classics] London: Penguin, 1997), xlviii, 389pp., ill. with music & plans;
  • Timothy Webb, ed., Selected Poems of W. B. Yeats [Penguin classics] (London: Penguin 1990; 2000), xlii, 322pp.;
  • Seamus Heaney, ed. W. B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (London: Faber 2000).
  • Richard J. Finneran, ed., The Yeats Reader: Selected Poetry, Drama and Prose (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2002), 527pp. & index. [8 plays, &c.];
  • Edward Larrissy, ed., intro. & annot., W. B. Yeats: A Critical Edition of the Major Works, including Poems, Plays, and Critical Prose [Author Ser., gen. ed. Frank Kermode] (Oxford OUP 1997; rep. 2001), xxxv, 572pp. [with poems divided by genre as in 1933 edn.];
  • Seamus Heaney, ed., The Faber Yeats (London: Faber & Faber 2004) [retitle of 2002 edn.].
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Collected Works [Macmillan Edn. ]
Richard Finneran & George Mills Harper, gen. eds., The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (Macmillan/Scribner’s 1989- ):
  • Vol. 1: The Poems, ed. R. J. Finneran (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 1989);
  • [...]
  • Vol. 3: Autobiographies, ed., William H. O’Donnell & Douglas N. Archibald (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner 2002), 560pp.;
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  • Vol. 5: Later Essays, ed. William H. O’Donnell (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 1994), 560pp. [first iss. in 1989];
  • Vol. 6: Prefaces and Introductions, ed. William H. O’Donnell (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 1989);
  • Vol. 7: Letters to the New Island, ed., George Bornstein & Hugh Witemeyer (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 1989);
  • [...]
  • Volume 9: ‘Early Articles and Reviews Uncollected Articles and Reviews Written Between 1886 and 1900’, ed. by John P. Frayne & Madeleine Marchaterre (NY: Scribner’s & Sons 2004) [see contents];
  • Vol. 10: Later Articles and Reviews [post-1900], ed. Colton Johnson (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 2003), 426pp.
  • [...]
  • Vol. 12: John Sherman and Dhoya, ed., R. J. Finneran (London: Macmillan; NY: Scribner’s & Sons 1992), 144pp.;
    [...]
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Collected Works [Cornell Yeats]*
  • Phillip L. Marcus, ed., The Death of Cuchulain Including the Author's Final Text (Cornell UP 1982), x, 182pp.
  • Sandra F. Siegel, Purgatory Including the Author's Final Text (Cornell UP 1986), xi, 222pp.
  • George Bornstein, ed., The Early Poetry, 2 vols. (Cornell UP 1987; 1994) - viz., Vol.1: Mosada, and The Island of Statues (Cornell UP 1987), xii, 442pp.; Vol.2: The Wanderings of Oisin, and Other Early Poems to 1895 (Cornell UP 1994), xxxiv, 534pp.;
  • Alison Armstrong, ed., The Herne's Egg (Cornell UP 1993), xxxi, 205pp. [cf. Andrew Parkin, ed., The Herne’s Egg [Irish Dramatic Texts Ser.] (Cornell UP 1991)]
  • Carolyn Holdsworth, ed., The Wind Among the Reeds (Cornell UP 1993), xxxvi, 220pp.
  • Catherine Phillips, The Hour-Glass (Cornell UP 1994), xxxviii, 362pp. [and Do . new edn., ed. C. Phillips].
  • Stephen Parrish, ed., The Wild Swans at Coole (Cornell UP 1994), xxxix, 431pp.
  • Thomas Parkinson, with Anne Brannen, eds., Michael Robartes and the Dancer (Cornell UP 1994), xxviii, 200pp.
  • David R. Clark, The Winding Stair [1929] (Cornell UP 1995), xxxvi, 266pp.
  • James Pethica, ed., Last Poems (Cornell UP 1997), lvi, 471pp.
  • Michael J. Sidnell & Wayne K. Chapman, eds., The Countess Cathleen (Cornell UP 1999), lviii, 771pp.
  • David R. Clark, ed., Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (Cornell UP 1999), xlviii, 626pp.
  • J.C.C. Mays & Stephen Parrish, eds., New Poems (2000), xxxix, 399pp.
  • David Holdeman, ed., In the Seven Woods, and The Green Helmet and Other Poems (2002), lix, 281pp.
  • Jared Curtis, ed., The Land of Heart's Desire (2002), xxxiv, 273pp.
  • Mary FitzGerald, ed., The Words Upon the Window Pane (2002), xxx, 237pp.
  • Wayne K. Chapman, ed., The Dreaming of the Bones and Calvary (2003), xliv, 269pp.
  • David R. Clark, Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems, from A Full Moon in March (2003), liii, 253 pp.
  • William H. O'Donnell, ed., Responsibilities (2003), xliv, 387pp.
  • Steven Winnett, The Only Jealousy of Emer, and Fighting the Waves (2004), xlvi, 386pp.
  • Virginia Bartholome Rohan, ed., Deirdre (2004), lx, 1090pp.
  • J. C. C. Mays, ed., Diarmuid and Grania [WBY with George Moore] (2005), lxviii, 1081pp.
  • Declan Kiely, The King's Threshold (2005), lxi, 620pp.
  • James Pethica, ed., Collaborative One-act Plays, 1901-1903: Cathleen ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, The Country of the Young , [and] Heads or Harps [all with Lady Gregory] (Cornell UP 2006), lxix, 238pp.
  • Richard Allen Cave, ed., The King of the Great Clock Tower, and A Full Moon in March (2007), lxxiii, 374pp.
  • Jared Curtis, ed., Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (2008), liii, 584pp.
  • Richard J. Finneran, with Jared Curtis & Ann Saddlemyer, eds. The Tower [1928] (2007), liii, 670pp.
*facsimiles of MS materials; 25cm. format; see also Cornell Yeats Collection, infra.
Variorum editions
  • Peter Allt & Russell K. Alspach, eds., The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1957), Do. [Corrected 3rd Edn.] (London: Macmillan 1966);
  • Russell K. Alspach & Catharine C. Alspach, eds., The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan 1966; Cornell UP 1972), xxi,1558pp.;
  • Philip L. Marcus, Warwick Gould & Michael J. Sidnell, The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition (Cornell UP 1981), xxxiv, 271pp., and Do. [2nd Edn., rev. & enl.] London: Macmillan 1992), xlvii, 297pp., ill., ports.;
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Collected & selected works [contemporary]
  • Vol. I: The Poetical Works of W. B. Yeats : Lyrical Poems (NY & London: Macmillan 1906);
  • Vol. II: Dramatical Poems (NY & London: Macmillan 1907);
  • [?Synge,] Poems, Second Series (London & Stratford: A. H. Bullen 1909) [actually 1910];
  • A Selection from the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1913);
  • Selected Poems (NY: Macmillan 1921);
  • Early Poems and Stories (London: Macmillan 1925) [ded. to Richard Ashe King];
  • The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (NY: Macmillan 1933);
  • The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1934; 1952) [20 prev. printed plays, and ‘Oedipus at Colonus’; edns. after 1952 have additional plays];
  • Nine One-act Plays (London: Macmillan 1937).
Stratford-on-Avon [Collected Works]
  • Poems Lyrical and Narrative; Being the First Volume of the Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908);
  • The King’s Threshold ; On Baile’s Strand ; Deirdre ; The Shadowy Waters [Vol. II of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908);
  • The Countess Cathleen ; The Land of Heart’s Desire ; The Unicorn from the Stars [Vol. III of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908);
  • The Hour Glass ; Cathleen Ni Houlihan ; The Golden Helmet ; and The Irish Dramatic Movement: Being the Fourth Volume of the Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908) [Vol. IV of Coll. Works];
  • The Celtic Twilight ; and Stories of Red Hanrahan [Vol. V of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908);
  • Ideas of Good and Evil [Vol. VI of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908);
  • The Secret Rose ; Rosa Alchemica ; The Tables of the Law ; The Adoration of the Magi ; John Sherman and Dhoya [Vol. VII of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908);
  • Discoveries; Edmund Spenser ; Poetry and Tradition and Other Essays [Vol. VIII of Collected Works] (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1908);
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Posthumous & scholarly editions
  • Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1944);
  • Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1950), Do ., with additions (1950) [Wade 211];
  • Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1953) [Wade 211D];
  • Autobiographies (London: Macmillan 1955) [consisting of ‘Reveries over Childhood and Youth’, ‘The Trembling of the Veil’, ‘Dramatis Personae’, ‘Estrangement’, ‘The Death of Synge’ and ‘The Bounty of Sweden’];
  • Mythologies (London: Macmillan 1959) [selected from The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, and Stories of Red Hanrahan], and Do., ed. Warwick Gould & Deirdre Toomey (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2005) [q.pp.]
  • Donald Pearce, ed., The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats (Bloomington: Indiana UP 1960; London: Faber & Faber 1961);
  • Essays and Introductions (London & NY: Macmillan 1961), ill. [2 ports.];
  • Later Poems (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1961); Explorations, selected by Mrs. W. B. Yeats (London & NY: Macmillan 1962), viii. 452pp.;
  • W. B .Yeats, Eleven Plays by W. B. Yeats (NY: Collier Books 1964);
  • John P. Frayne ed., Uncollected Prose: Reviews, Articles, and Other Miscellaneous Prose, 1897-1939, Vol. 1 (London: Macmillan; NY: Columbia UP 1970) [see contents; also Vol. 2 (1975) - contents];
  • [n. ed.,] Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends: An Extract from A Record Made by His Friends; and a Play in Prose [The Resurrection, ded. Junzo Sato] [facs. rep. of Cuala 1931 Edn.] (Shannon: IUP 1970), [4], 46pp.;
  • Michael Sidnell, George P. Mayhew & David R. Clark eds., Druid Craft: The Writing of ‘The Shadowy Waters’ (Amherst: Massachusetts UP 1971);
  • Denis Donoghue, transcribed & ed., W. B. Yeats, Memoirs - Autobiography: A First Draft [&] Journal (NY: Macmillan 1972) [containing an ‘Autobiography’ for the years 1887-90, written in 1916-17, pp.19-135; ‘Journal’, pp.137-280; also Appendixes];
  • Robert O’Driscoll & Lorna Reynolds, eds., Yeats and the Theatre (Toronto: Macmillan 1975) [incls. lecture, ‘Friends of My Youth’];
  • John Frayne & Colton Johnson, ed., Uncollected Prose [2 Vols.], Vol. 2 (Macmillan; Columbia UP 1975) [see contents];
  • Curtis Bradford, ed., The Writing of ‘The Player Queen’ (Northern Illinois UP 1977);
  • William H. O’Donnell, ed. The Speckled Bird (Dublin: Cuala Press [Dolmen] Press 1973-74), 2 vols. [Vol. 1: x, 87; Vol. II: 99pp.; ltd. edn. of 500 [final typescript of 1902 or 1903]; Do. as O’Donnell, ed. & annot., The Speckled Bird: An Autobiographical Novel with Variant Versions ([Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart 1976), 275pp., ill. [9pp. of pls.]; and Do. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2003), xxiii, 250pp. [critical variorum edition 1896, 1902].
  • Mary Helen Thuente, ed. & intro., Representative Irish Tales [1891] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1979);
  • Edward Callan, ed., Yeats on Yeats: The Last Introductions and the Dublin Edition (Dublin: Dolmen Press; NJ: Humanities Press [distrib.] 1981), 112pp.;
  • David R. Clark & James B. McGuire, eds., The Writing of ‘Sophocles’ King Oedipus’ [ Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 175: Manuscripts of Yeats] (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1989), x, 443pp., ill. [1 pl., port.; facs], 24cm.
  • Richard Finneran, ed., John Sherman and Dhoya [1891] (NY: 1991);
  • George Mills Harper, gen. ed., “Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers”, 3 vols. (London: Macmillan; Iowa UP 1992) [papers of Yeats & Mrs Yeats];
  • Robert Welch, ed., Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend, and Myth (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1993), 455pp. [see contents];
  • [q. ed.], Essays on Irish Literature [Penguin Twentieth Century Classics] (Penguin 1997) [var. 1995], 320pp.;
  • George J. Watson, ed. & intro. W. B. Yeats, Short Fiction [John Sherman, Dhoya, and stories of The Secret Rose ] (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1995), 320pp.;
  • ‘Countess Cathleen’, in The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays [Synge, Yeats and O’Casey] (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1996), 224pp.;
  • Richard Allen Cave, ed., W. B. Yeats, Selected Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1997), 448pp.
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Correspondence
John S. Kelly ed., Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, 12 vols. (Oxford 1986- ): Definitive Edition
  • Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Vol. I: 1865-1895, ed., J. S. Kelly [St. John’s Coll., Oxford] and Eric Domville [Assoc. Prof. Toronto Univ.] (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), 520pp.;
  • Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Vol. II: 1896-1900, ed. Warwick Gould, John Kelly & Deirdre Toomey (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997), 790pp.
  • Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Vol. III: 1901-1904, ed., Kelly & Ronald Schuchard (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1994), 836pp.
  • [...; to be completed]
Note: vols. appearing out of series.
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Letters - Sundry editions
  • ‘Some Passages from the Letters of W. B. Yeats to A.E.’, in Dublin Magazine [n.s.], XIV (July-Sept. 1939) [q.pp.];
  • [J. M. Hone, ed.,] Letters on the Poetry of W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley (OUP 1940; 1964);
  • Clifford Bax, ed., Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, and W. B. Yeats (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1941) [see vars. under Bax];
  • Ursula Bridge, ed., W. B. Yeats and T [homas ] Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901-37 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; NY: OUP 1953), xix, 213pp., ill. [ports], and Do . [facs. edn.] (NY: Greenwood Press 1978);
  • Roger McHugh, ed., Letters to Katharine Tynan (Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds; NY: McMullen 1953);
  • Allan Wade, ed., The Letters of W. B. Yeats (London: Rupert Hart Davis 1954), 938pp., ill. [9 lvs. of pls.], and Do . (NY: Macmillan 1955) [see Lilly Library Cat., Indiana Univ. Library, infra];
  • Roger McHugh, ed., Ah, Sweet Dancer: W. B. Yeats-Margot Ruddock: A Correspondence (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1970), 142pp.;
  • John S. Kelly ed., Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, [proposed] 12 vols. (Oxford 1986-) [more]
See also:
  • Richard Finneran, ed., The Correspondence of Robert Bridges and W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1977);
  • Richard Finneran, George Mills Harper & William M. Murphy, eds., Letters to Yeats, 2 vols. (London & Basingstoke: Macmillan 1977), xvii, 628pp.
  • Ann Saddlemyer, ed., Theatre Business: The Correspondence of the First Abbey Theatre Directors: William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1982);
  • Joseph Hone, ed., John Butler Yeats: Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats and Others, 1869-1922 (London: Faber 1944; NY: Dutton 1946).
  • Richard J. Finneran, et al., eds., Letters to W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan 1977);
  • Alan Himber, ed., The Letters of John Quinn to William Butler Yeats (Michigan: UMI Research Press 1983);
  • Anna MacBride White and A. N. Jeffares, eds., The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938, Always Your Friend (London: Hutchinson; NY: Norton 1992; rep. Pimlico 1993), 544pp. ill. [incl. 372 letters by Maud Gonne and 30 by Yeats].
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Miscellaneous compilations
  • Joseph Spence, ed., The Sayings of W. B. Yeats (London 1993);

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Contemp. Editions (Poetry, Plays & Fiction)
Poetry collections [Dublin first edns.]
  • Mosada: A Dramatic Poem (Dublin: Sealy, Bryer & Walker 1886) [first printed in Dublin University Review, and then published in pamphlet form by subscription on his father’s account; 100 copies printed, of which a dozen are extant];
  • The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1889);
  • Poems (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1895; rev. eds. 1899, 1901);
  • The Secret Rose (London: Lawrence & Bullen 1897), ill. [book design by Althea Gyles, dedication to A.E.: ‘war of the spiritual with the natural order’];
  • The Wind Among the Reeds (London: Elkin Mathews 1899), ill. [design of intertwining reeds by Althea Gyles; with 12 de luxe copies on vellum; 500 copies];
  • In the Seven Woods (Dublin: Dun Emer 1903) [actually publ. 1904];
  • Twenty One Poems (Dub, Dun Emer 1904) [actually 1905];
  • The Green Helmet and Other Poems (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1910; NY & London: Macmillan 1912) [the Macmillan edn. adding six poems];
  • Poems [rev. edn.] (London: T Fisher Unwin 1912);
  • Poems Written in Discouragement (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1913);
  • Responsibilities: Poems and a Play (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1914; London: Macmillan 1916);
  • Eight Poems (Moreland Press [1916]), [20]pp. [publ. in ltd. edn. of 400 with complex variants in publisher and bibliog. format];
  • Easter 1916 (1916) [ltd. edn. of 25 copies, ‘privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends’];
  • The Wild Swans at Coole: Other Verses and a Play in Verse [i.e., At The Hawk’s Well, omitted from Macmillan edn., 1919] (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1917);
  • Nine Poems (London, priv. by Clement Shorter 1918);
  • The Wild Swans at Coole [2nd edn.] (London: Macmillan 1919) [add. poems incl. ‘Irish Airman’, Phases of the Moon’, ‘The Saint and the Hunchback’; ‘Two Songs of a Fool’, ‘The Double Vision of Michael Robartes’];
  • Michael Robartes and The Dancer (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1920);
  • Seven Poems and a Fragment (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1922);
  • Later Poems (London: Macmillan 1922);
  • The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems (Dublin: 1924);
  • Seven Poems and Certain Poems (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1924);
  • October Blast (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1927);
  • The Tower (London: Macmillan 1928) [cover design by Sturge Moore];
  • Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1932);
  • The Winding Stair and Other Poems (London: Macmillan 1933) [ded. Edmund Dulac];
  • New Poems (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1938);
  • Last Poems and Two Plays [plays being ‘The Death of Cuchulain’ and ‘Purgatory’] (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1939; US 1940) [Wade 204].
Poetry collections [London 1st edns.]
  • [Macmillan editions as opposed to earlier Cuala edns.]:
  • Crossways (1889);
  • The Rose (1893);
  • The Wind Among the Reeds (1899);
  • In the Seven Woods (1904);
  • The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910);
  • Responsibilities (1914);
  • The Wild Swans at Coole (1919);
  • Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921);
  • The Tower (1928);
  • The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933);
  • Words for Music Perhaps [1931];
  • A Woman Young and Old [q.d.];
  • A Full Moon in March (1935);
  • Last Poems and Plays (posthum. 1940) [1936-39; incl. three poems formerly issued in On the Boiler, 1939].
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Plays [1st editions]
  • The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1892; Boston: Roberts Bros. [1892]), and Do ., [rev. 7th edn., 1912) [Wade 93];
  • The Land of Heart’s Desire (London: T Fisher Unwin 1894; Chicago: Stone & Kimball 1894), Do . [rev. edn.] (Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1903), and Do . [another edn.] (Windsor Press 1926) [ltd. 750 copies];
  • The Shadowy Waters: A Dramatic Poem (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1900) [ded. Lady Gregory];
  • Cathleen Ni Houlihan (London: A. H. Bullen 1902), Do . [another edn; 2nd Theatre Edn.] (1909) [Wade 93];
  • Where There Is Nothing [Vol. 1 of Plays for an Irish Theatre] (London: A. H. Bullen 1903) [first printed in supplement to The United Irishman, 1 Nov. 1902; Wade 44];
  • The Hour-Glass (London: Heinemann 1903);
  • The Hour-Glass and Other Plays, being Vol. 2 of plays for an Irish Theatre (London: Macmillan 1904) [ltd. edn. 100 on Japanese vellum; Wade 52];
  • Deirdre (London: A. H. Bullen; Dublin: Maunsel 1907) [performed 1908];
  • [with Lady Gregory,] The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays (NY: Macmillan 1908) [title play revised version of Where There is Nothing ; Cathleen ni Houlihan, and The Hour-Glass ];
  • The Golden Helmet (NY: John Quinn 1908), 32 [4]pp. [ltd. edn. of 50 copies; Nos. 5 & 20 in TCD Lib.; later The Green Helmet .]
  • The Green Helmet (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head 1911) [only sep. edn.];
  • The Countess Cathleen [rev. edn.] (T. Fisher Unwin 1912);
  • The Player Queen (London: Macmillan 1922);
  • Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version for the Modern Stage (London: Macmillan 1928; US 1928);
  • The Words Upon the Window Pane (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1934);
  • The Full Moon in March [title play and verse revision of ‘The King and the Great Clock Tower’, with various poems] (London: Macmillan 1935);
  • Last Poems and Plays (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1939; London: Macmillan 1940). [poem selection at variance with Last Poems and Two Plays ]
See also The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmilan 1960), 705pp. [contents].
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Plays [sundry collected edns.]
  • The Hour-Glass and Other Plays [i.e, ‘Cathleen ni Houlihan’ and ‘The Pot of Broth’]; (NY & London: Macmillan 1904);
  • The Hour-Glass, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth [Vol. 2 of “Plays for an Irish Theatre”] (London: A. H. Bullen 1904; Dublin: Maunsel 1905);
  • The King’s Threshold [and ] On Baile’s Strand [Vol. 3 of “Plays for an Irish Theatre”] (London: A. H. Bullen 1904);
  • Plays for an Irish Theatre [‘Deirdre; ‘The Green Helmet’; ‘On Baile’s Strand’; ‘The King’s Threshold’; ‘The Shadowy Waters’; ‘The Hour Glass’; ‘Cathleen ni Houlihan’] (London & Stratford: A. H. Bullen 1911), with preface; Two Plays for Dancers [‘The Dreaming of the Bones’, and ‘Only Jealousy of Emer’] (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1919);
  • Four Plays for Dancers [‘At the Hawk’s Well’; The Only Jealousy of Emer’; ‘The Dreaming of the Bones’; ‘Calvary’] (q.d.);
  • Plays in Prose and Verse, Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend [i.e., Lady Gregory] (London: Macmillan 1922);
  • Wheels and Butterflies [‘The Words Upon the Window Pane’; ‘Fighting the Waves’; ‘The Resurrection’; ‘The Cat and the Moon’] (London: Macmillan 1934);
  • The Herne’s Egg: A Stage Play (London: Macmillan 1938) [Wade 196];
  • Diarmuid and Grania [rep. from the Dublin Magazine ] (April-June 1951).
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Fiction
  • “Ganconagh” [pseud.], John Sherman and Dhoya [Unwin Pseudonym. Library] (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1891; 3rd edn. 1892) (iv), [1]-195pp. [see further editions, infra.] ;
  • The Celtic Twilight: Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries (London: Lawrence & Bullen 1893; NY: Macmillan 1894), x, 235pp. [2,000 copies; the last poem, “Into the Twilight”, orig. printed as “The Celtic Twilight” in National Observer ; Wade 8];
  • The Celtic Twilight (London: Lawrence & Bullen 1902), and Do . [rev. & enl. edn.], as The Celtic Twilight: Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries (1912) [see also Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend, and Myth, ed. Robert Welch (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1993) - contents];
  • The Tables of the Law [and ] The Adoration of the Magi (priv. edn. 1897; London: Elkin Mathews 1904), and Do . [priv. edn.] (1914) [ltd. 510; Wade 26];
  • Stories of Red Hanrahan (Dublin: Dun Emer 1904) [actually 1905; incls. “The Twisting of the Rope”];
  • Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends, An Extract from a Record Made by his Pupils; and a Play in Prose [“The Resurrection”] (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1932);
 
John Sherman and Dhoya, with an afterword by Eve Patten [rep. edn.] (Dublin: Lilliput 1990); Richard Finneran, ed., John Sherman and Dhoya [1891] (NY: 1991).
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Prose & Editorial Work
 
John Frayne & Colton Johnston, The Uncollected Prose, 2 vols. (1970-75)
For complete listing of essay-articles and reviews rep. in John Frayne & Colton Johnston, The Uncollected Prose, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan 1970-75), see the RICORSO Bibliographies, “W. B. Yeats” [Table of Contents], infra.
 
Criticism & miscellaneous prose
  • Ideas of Good and Evil (London: A. H. Bullen 1903) [contains “The Autumn of the Body”, first issued as “Autumn of the Flesh”, 1898; “The Symbolism of Poetry”, 1900; “The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry”, 1900; “Magic”, first publ. in The Monthly Review, Sept. 1901; “At Stratford-on-Avon”; “The Celtic Element in Literature”, and “William Blake and the Imagination”, &c.];
  • The Cutting of the Agate (NY: Macmillan 1912; London: Macmillan 1919) [incl. ‘Lady Gregory’s Translations’, ‘Poetry and Tradition’; ‘The Tragic Theatre’, pp.25-35; ‘Preface to the First Edition of The Well of The Saints’, pp.111-22; ‘Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations ’, pp.123-29; ‘J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time’, pp.130-76];
  • Per Amica Silentia Lunae (London: Macmillan 1918) [dedicated to Isuelt Gonne; incl. “Ego Dominus Tuus”, first publ. 1917, now appearing with “Anima Hominis” and “Anima Mundi”, essays formerly gathered as An Alphabet ];
  • Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson (Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1909) [var. 1908];
  • Synge and the Ireland of His Time by William Butler Yeats with a Note Concerning a Walk through Connemara with Him by Jack Butler Yeats. (Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1911);
  • Introduction to Ezra Pound, Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa (Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1916);
  • Plays and Controversies (London: Macmillan 1923; NY: Macmillan 1924);
  • Essays (London: Macmillan 1924) [first vol. of Uniform Edition];
  • Letters to the New Island, ed. Horace Reynolds (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP 1934) [early criticism published in America; see Macmillan edn. of Collected Works, infra];
  • Essays, 1931-1936 ( Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press 1937);
  • On the Boiler (Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala [1939]);
  • Tribute to Thomas Davis (Cork UP; Oxford: Blackwell 1947), with foreword by Denis Gwynn and ‘Unpublished Letter’ by “AE” [George Russell].
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Criticism [selected articles]
  • ‘The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson’, in The Irish Fireside [Irish Poets and Irish Poetry ser.] (9 Oct., 1886) [rep. John Frayne, ed., Uncollected Prose, Vol. I, Macmillan 1970, pp.81-87];
  • ‘The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson’, in Dublin University Review, 2 (Nov. 1886); Frayne, 1, 87-104;
  • ‘Popular Ballad Poetry of Ireland’, in Leisure Hour (No. 1889 [written in July 1887]; rep. Frayne, I, pp.146-62;
  • ‘Nationality and Literature’ [a lecture given on 19 May 1893], reported in United Ireland, 27 May, 1893; Frayne, I, pp.266-75);
  • ‘Irish National Literature, I, From Callanan to Carleton, Bookman, July 1895; Frayne, I, p.360-64);
  • ‘Irish National Literature, II, Contemporary Prose Writers - Mr. O’Grady, Miss Lawless, Miss Barlow, Miss Hopper, and the Folk-lorists’, Bookman, Aug. 1895; Frayne, I, p.366-73);
  • ‘Irish National Literature, III, Contemporary Irish Poets - Dr Hyde, Mr Rolleston, Mrs Hinkson, Miss Nora Hopper, A.E., Mr. Aubrey de Vere, Dr Todhunter, and Mr. Lionel Johnson’ (Bookman, Sept. 1895; Frayne, I, pp.375-82);
  • ‘Irish National Literature, IV, A List of the Best Irish Books’ (Bookman, Oct. 1895; Frayne, I, pp.382-87);
  • ‘Contemporary Prose Writers,’ The Bookman (Aug 1895), includes remarks on Standish O’Grady, Emily Lawless, et al.; W. B. Yeats, ‘A General Introduction for My Work’ in Edward Callan, Yeats on Yeats: The Last Introductions and the ‘Dublin’ Edition, New Yeats Papers, XX (Mountrath: Dolmen 1981), pp.59-63 [see FDA3 667n. for comment];
  • W. B. Yeats & Thomas Kinsella, Davis, Mangan, Ferguson? Tradition and the Irish Writer (Dublin: Dolmen 1970);
  • ‘Modern Ireland’ , in Robin Skelton & David R. Clark, eds., Irish Renaissance (Dublin: Dolmen 1965) [rep. of Modern Poetry: A Broadcast [broadcast from Belfast, BBC 1936];
  • ‘The Censorship and St Thomas Aquinas’, in Irish Statesman, 11 (1928), pp.47-48 [rep. in Uncollected Prose, ed. Frayne, Vol. 2, London: Macmillan 1975, pp.477-80; also in Julia Carlson, ed., Banned in Ireland, Censorship & the Irish Writer, Routledge/Georgia UP 1990].
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A Vision [edns. of 1925 & 1937]
  • A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraltus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta ben Luka (London: T. Werner Laurie 1925) [actually 1926; issued for subscribers];
  • A Vision [rev. & enl. edn.] (London: Macmillan 1937) [Wade 191]; reiss. with corrections 1962; rep. 1967, 1974, 1978, &c.), 304pp. [signed ‘Capri February 1925’ on p.300, and ‘1934-1939’ on p.302 [“The End of the Cycle”], to which is attached “All Souls’ Night”, pp.303-05, subscribed Oxford 1920];
  • George Mills Harper & Walter Kelly Hood, eds., A Critical Edition of Yeats’s “A Vison” [1925] (London: Macmillan 1978).
 
See also George Mills Harper, gen. ed. Yeats’s Vision Papers, 4 vols. (London: Macmillan 1992-2001) [contents].
 
Autobiographical Writings
  • Discoveries (Dublin: Dun Emer Press 1907), [8], 46, [2]pp. [ltd. edn. 200], and Do., [facs. rep. edn.] (Shannon: Irish Univ. Press 1970), [5], 45pp. [also in Vol. 8 of Collected Works (Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press 1908), vi, 287, [1]pp.];
  • Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1915, actually appearing 1916) [the first designed by Sturge Moore];
  • The Trembling of the Veil (London: T. Werner Laurie 1922) [for subscribers, October 1922; incls. ‘Four Years’ (1921) [publ. in London Mercury and The Dial, July 1921], dealing with 1887-91, and also a ‘A Biographical Fragment with some notes’, later ‘The Stirring of the Bones’];
  • Autobiographies (London: Macmillan 1926) [consisting of ‘Ireland After Parnell’, ‘Hodos Chameliontos’, ‘The Tragic Generation’, ‘The Stirring of the Bones’];
  • The Bounty of Sweden (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1925);
  • Estrangement, Being Some Fifty Thoughts from a Diary Kept by William Butler Yeats in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Nine (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1926);
  • The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1928) [first printed as ‘The Death of Synge and Other Pages ... &c.’, in The Dial [Chicago], April 1928, pp.271-88; rep. as ‘... and Other Passages ... (&c.)’, in The London Mercury, XVII, April 1928, pp.637-52];
  • A Packet for Ezra Pound (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1929) [subseq.; prefaced to A Vision, 1937 Edn.]
  • Dramatis Personae (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1935);
  • Dramatis Personae 1892-1902, Estrangement, The Death of Synge, The Bounty of Sweden (NY: Macmillan 1936);
  • The Autobiographies (London: Macmillan 1938) [consisting of ‘Reveries Over Childhood and Youth’; ‘The Trembling of the Veil’; ‘Dramatis Personae’];
  • If I Were Four-and-Twenty (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1940) [incorp. “If I were Four-and-Twenty” 1919) and “Swedenborg, Mediums and Desolate Places” (1914) [ltd. edn. 450], and Do . [facs. rep.] (Shannon: Irish University Press 1971), 67pp.
  • Autobiographies (London: Macmillan 1955), 592pp. [Notes, pp.575-81; Index, pp.583ff.
  • Denis Donoghue, transcribed & ed., W. B. Yeats: Memoirs - Autobiography - A First Draft [&] Journal (London: Macmillan 1972), pp.318. [see contents]
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Anthologies & editions [ed. by WBY]
  • Ed., with others [chiefly by T. W. Rolleston under guidance of John O’Leary], Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland (Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son 1888) [incls. work by Ellen O’Leary, Douglas Hyde, John Todhunter, T. W. Rolleston, Katharine Tynan, Rose Kavanagh, and Yeats’s poems ‘The Stolen Child’, ‘Meditations of the Old Fisherman’, ‘Madness of King Goll’ and ‘Love Songs’; Wade 289];
  • ed., Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (London: Walter Scott; NY: Thom. Whitaker; Toronto: W. J. Gage 1888) [T. C. Croker, William Carleton, Patrick Kennedy, Lady Wilde, as well as trans. from Irish collected by Hyde, poems by Mangan, Allingham, Ferguson & W. B. Yeats, et al.; see contents];
  • ed., A Book of Irish Verse : Selected from Modern Writers with an Introduction [‘Modern Irish Poetry’] and notes by W. B. Yeats (London: Methuen 1895), 275pp., and Do . [2nd and later editions] (London: Methuen 1900, 1912, 1920 [4th edn.]), incl. Preface to New Edn., and former Introduction, p.xvii-xxxi [Wade 225];
  • ed., with introduction, Stories from Carleton (London: London: Walter Scott; NY: Thom. Whitaker; Toronto: W. J. Gage [1889]);
  • ed. Representative Irish Tales, 2 vols. (NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Knickerbocker Press [1891]) [Carleton and nine other Irish authors; see contents];
  • ed. Irish Fairy Tales [Children’s Library] (London: T. Fisher Unwin; NY: Cassell 1892), ill. Jack B. Yeats [collects 16 tales by Carleton, Crofton Croker, Michael Hart, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Lover, P. W. Joyce, Douglas Hyde, Lady Wilde, Gerald Griffin, Standish O’Grady, with a final chapter on classification and bibliography, by Yeats];
  • ed., with Edwin J[ohn] Ellis, The Works of William Blake, […] Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical Edition / Ed. with lithographs of the illustrated “Prophetic books”, and a memoir and interpretation by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, 3 vols. (London: Bernard Quaritch 1893) [ltd. edn. 500; Wade 218], and Do . [NY: AMS Press 1973]; see also Yeats solo edn. [see details].
  • ed., Poems of Spenser (Edinburgh, T. C. & E. C. Jack [1906]);
  • ed., Some Essays and Passages by John Eglinton (Dublin: Dun Emer 1905);
  • ed., Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan (Dublin: Dun Emer 1907);
  • ed., Poems and Translations by John M. Synge (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1909);
  • ed., Deirdre of the Sorrows: A Play by John M. Synge (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1910);
  • ed.,The Poems of William Blake [The Muses’ Library] (London: Lawrence & Bullen 1893), liv., 252pp. [Wade 219; O’Shea 208 - NLI copy from WBY’s library has his errata and a long note in ink.]; Do., as Poetical Works of William Blake (London: George Routledge & Sons. Ltd. 1905), and Do. [rep.] [Books That Marked Epochs, No. 2] (George Routledge 1910), xlix, 277pp. [see contents]; and Do. [Modern Library] (NY: Boni & Liveright 192?), xli, 278pp. [17 cm]; Do . [Muses’ Library] (Harvard UP 1969); Do. [Muses’ Library] ([London: 1972); Do ., as Collected Poems, with a new introduction by Tom Paulin (London: Routledge 2002), xliii, 256pp. [21 cm].
  • [Intro.,] Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1912);
  • Introduction to Shri Purohit Swami, trans., Bhagwan Shri Hamsa, An Indian Monk: His Life and Adventures (1932);
  • Intro., to Shri Purohit Swami, The Holy Mountain: Being the Story of a Pilgrimage to Lake Manas and of Initiation on Mount Kailas in Tibet (1934), and also to his translation and annotation of Patanjali’s Aphorisms of Yoga [q.d.];
  • ed. with F. R. Higgins, Broadsides (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1935) [12-monthly poetry sheets, 4pp. each;
  • ed. The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1936);
  • ed. Ten Principal Upanishads, by Shree [var. Shri] Purohit Swami, (London: Faber 1937);
  • ed., with Dorothy Wellesley, Broadsides (Dundrum: Cuala Press 1937) [first separately, then bound, Dec. 1937];
 
See also prefaces to Joseph Hone and M[ario] M Rossi, Bishop Berkeley (London: Faber 1931), pp.xv-xxix, Oliver St. John Gogarty, An Offering of Swans (Cuala Press 1924), and Gogarty,Wild Apples (1930).
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Journals & Broadsides
  • ed., Beltaine: an Occasional Publication, Number One (London: At the Sign of the Unicorn; Dublin: At the Daily Express Office [May] 1889);
  • Beltaine, Number Two (London: At the Sign of the Unicorn 1900);
  • Beltaine, Number Three (London: At the Sign of the Unicorn 1900);
  • Samhain [No. 1] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1901);
  • Samhain [No. 2] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1902);
  • Samhain [No. 3] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1903);
  • Samhain [No. 4] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1904);
  • Samhain [No. 5] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: A. H. Bullen 1905);
  • The Arrow [five pamphlets] (Abbey Theatre 20 Ct. 1906-22 Aug. 1909);
  • Samhain [No. 6] (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; London: A. H. Bullen 1906);
  • Samhain [No. 7] (Dublin: Maunsel 1908).
  • A Collection of Old and New Songs, ed., F. R. Higgins, with W. B. Yeats (Cuala [MCMXXXV] 1935) [T. M MacGlinchey publ. ; Robert Hogg, printer;
  • with songs by Yeats, James Stephens, F. R. Higgins, Frank O’Connor, Lynn Doyle, Bryan Guiness [sic], Padraic Colum; ill.  by Jack B Yeats, Victor Brown, Sean O’Sullivan, E. C. Peet, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal; music by Arthur Duff], and Do. [facs. edn.] (Shannon IUP 1971);
  • Broadsides: New Irish and English Songs, ed. W. B. Yeats & Dorothy Wellesley, ill. Jack B. Yeats, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal. [Note that copy in PGIL with this cover actually binds Old and New Songs, as supra.]

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