This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923

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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 Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – ...

– "Song of the Fairies" & "Voices," poems in the ''Dublin University Review'' (March) * 1886 – '' Mosada'', verse play * 1888 – ''Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry'' * 1889 – ''Crossways'' *

1889 Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...

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The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'' was the first collection of poems by W. B. Yeats. It was published in 1889. In addition to the title poem, the last epic-scale poem that Yeats ever wrote, the book includes a number of short poems that ...

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The Wanderings of Oisin ''The Wanderings of Oisin'' ( ) is an epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889 in the book '' The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems''. It was his first publication outside magazines, and immediately won him a reputation as a signific ...

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The Song of the Happy Shepherd "The Song of the Happy Shepherd" is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was first published under this title in his first book, ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'', but in fact the same poem had appeared twice before: as an epilogue to Yeat ...

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The Stolen Child "The Stolen Child" is an 1889 poem by William Butler Yeats, published in ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems''. Overview The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats's more notable early poems. The poem is based on I ...

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Down by the Salley Gardens "Down by the Salley Gardens" (''Irish: Gort na Saileán'') is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'' in 1889. History Yeats indicated in a note that it was "an attempt to reconstruct an old song f ...

1890s

1890 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa. ** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River. * January 2 ** The steamship ...

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is a twelve-line poem comprising three quatrains, written by William Butler Yeats in 1888 and first published in the '' National Observer'' in 1890. It was reprinted in ''The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends a ...

", poem first published in the ''National Observer'', 13 December; poem included in ''The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics'', 1892 *

– ''Irish Fairies'' in The Leisure Hour * 1891 – ''Representative Irish Tales'' * 1891 – ''John Sherman and Dhoya'', two stories *

1892 Events January–March * January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. * February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado. * February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...

– ''Irish Fairy Tales'' *

– ''

The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics ''The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics'' ( 1892) is the second poetry collection of W. B. Yeats. It includes the play '' The Countess Kathleen'' and group of shorter lyrics that Yeats would later collect under the title of ''The ...

'', includes "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (see 1890, above) (Lyrics from this book appear in Yeats' collected editions in a section titled "The Rose"

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but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose") *

1893 Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – Th ...

– ''The Celtic Twilight'', poetry and nonfiction *

– ''The Rose'', poems *

– '' The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical'', co-written with Edwin Ellis * 1894 – ''

The Land of Heart's Desire ''The Land of Heart's Desire'' is a play by Irish poet, dramatist, and 1923 Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats. First performed in the spring of 1894, at the Avenue Theatre in London, where it ran for a little over six weeks,Yeats, William Butl ...

'', published in April, his first acted play, performed 29 March *

1895 Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...

– ''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 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...

– ''The Shadowy Waters'', poems * 1902 – ''

Cathleen Ní Houlihan ''Cathleen ni Houlihan'' is a one-act play written by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1902. It was first performed on 2 April of that year and first published in the October number of ''Samhain''. Lady Gregory wrote the naturalistic peas ...

'', play * 1903 – ''Ideas of Good and Evil'', nonfiction * 1903 – '' In the Seven Woods'', poems, includes "

Adam's Curse ''Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men'' (also known as ''Adam's Curse: A Story of Sex, Genetics, and the Extinction of Men'') is a 2003 book by Oxford University human genetics professor Bryan Sykes expounding his hypothesis that with the declinin ...

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Dun Emer Press The Dun Emer Press (''fl.'' 1902–1908) was an Irish private press founded in 1902 by Evelyn Gleeson, Elizabeth Yeats and her brother William Butler Yeats, part of the Celtic Revival. It was named after the legendary Emer and evolved into the Cu ...

) * 1903 – ''Where There is Nothing'', play * 1903 – ''The Hour Glass'', play, copyright edition (see also 1904 edition) *

1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...

– ''The Hour-Glass; Cathleen ni Houlihan; The Pot of Broth'', plays *

– ''The King's Threshold; and

On Baile's Strand ''On Baile's Strand'' is a play written by W. B. Yeats and first printed in '' In the Seven Woods'' published by Dun Emer Press in 1903. The play was first performed at the grand opening of the Abbey Theatre on 27 December 1904. The play is bas ...

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– ''The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi'', a privately printed edition appeared in 1897 *

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

– ''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 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

– ''Poems, 1899 –1905'', verse and plays *

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...

– ''Deirdre'' *

– ''Discoveries'', nonfiction

1910s

* 1910 – ''The Green Helmet and Other Poems'', verse and plays * 1910 – ''Poems: Second Series'' *

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

– '' 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 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...

– ''Poems Written in Discouragement'' *

1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * ...

– ''Responsibilities, and Other Poems'' * 1916 – ''Reveries Over Childhood and Youth'', nonfiction *

– '' Easter 1916'' *

1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...

– ''

The Wild Swans at Coole ''The Wild Swans at Coole'' is the name of two collections of poetry by W. B. Yeats, published in 1917 and 1919. Publication history ''The Wild Swans at Coole'', a collection of twenty-nine poems and the play ''At the Hawk's Well'', was first p ...

, 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 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...

– ''Two Plays for Dancers'', plays; became part of ''Four Plays for Dancers'', published in 1921 *

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'', 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: "

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Ego Dominus Tuus ''Ego Dominus Tuus'', Latin for "I am your lord," sometimes translated as "I am your master" is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It was published in the 1918 book ''Per Amica Silentia Lunae'', where it introduced some of Yeats's es ...

", " The Scholars" and " On being asked for a War Poem"

1920s

* 1920 – " The Second Coming" *

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...

– '' Michael Robartes and the Dancer'', poems; published in February, although book itself states "1920" *

– ''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 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

– ''Later Poems'' *

– ''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 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

– ''The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems'', poems and drama * 1924 – ''Essays'' * 1925 – ''

A Vision ''A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka'', privately published in 1925, is a book-length study of various philosophical, historical, astrological, and poetic ...

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 Resurrection refers to the coming back to life of the dead. Resurrection or The Resurrection may also refer to: Supernatural * Resurrection of Jesus * Universal resurrection, often referred to by the term of art "resurrection of the dead", the ...

'', a short play first performed in 1934 *

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

– '' The Tower'', includes "

Sailing to Byzantium "Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1928 collection '' The Tower''. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Const ...

" * 1928 – ''The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary'', poems * 1928 – ''Sophocles' King Oedipus: a version for the modern stage'' *

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

– ''A Packet for Ezra Pound'', poems * 1929 – ''The Winding Stair'' published by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, now exceedingly rare

1930s

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

– ''Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems'' *

1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...

– ''Collected Poems'' * 1933 – ''

The Winding Stair and Other Poems ''The Winding Stair'' is a volume of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, published in 1933. It was the next new volume after 1928's ''The Tower''. (The title poem was originally published in 1929 by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, whi ...

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1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

– ''Collected Plays'' *

– ''The King of the Great Clock Tower'', poems * 1934 – ''Wheels and Butterflies'', drama * 1934 – ''The Words Upon the Window Pane'', drama *

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...

– ''Dramatis Personae'' *

– ''A Full Moon in March'', poems *

1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...

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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 *

– ''Essays 1931 to 1936'' * 1937''Broadsides: New Irish & English Songs'', edited by Yeats and

Dorothy Wellesley Dorothy Violet Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington ( Ashton; 30 July 1889 – 11 July 1956), styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, was an England, English author, poet, literary editor and socialite. Background She was born in Wh ...

1938 Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...

– ''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 ''The Ten Principal Upanishads'' is a version of the Upanishads translated by Irish poet W. B. Yeats and the Indian-born mendicant-teacher Shri Purohit Swami. The translation process occurred between the two authors throughout the 1930s and the bo ...

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– ''New Poems'' *

1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to ...

– ''Last Poems and Two Plays'' poems and drama (posthumous) * 1939 – ''On the Boiler'', essays, poems and a play (posthumous)

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