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    51 Books
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    March 1962
  • Latest Book:
    February 2019
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Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Celtic Twilight

    Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. Later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, Yeats produced a vast collection of...

  • Eleven Plays of William Butler Yeats

  • Essays & Introductions

  • Mythologies

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • William Butler Yeats

  • Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland

    "'Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland' combines two books of Irish folklore collected and edited by William Butler Yeats - 'Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry', first published in 1888, and 'Irish Fairy Tales', published in 1892....

  • Irish Fairy & Folk Tales

    Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fair...

  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF W.B. YEATS

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  • John Sherman and Dhoya

    John Sherman and Dhoya, novella and story, are among the earliest of W.B. Yeats's published compositions, begun at his father's prompting when the young poet was living in London in 1888. John Sherman is a poignant and delightful narrative that drama...

  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VI

    Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. ...

  • Byzantium

  • Under the Moon

    While working on a facsimile edition and transcription of W. B. Yeats's surviving early manuscripts, renowned Yeats scholar George Bornstein made a thrilling literary discovery: thirty-eight unpublished poems written between the poet's late teens and...

  • Short Fiction

    Yeats's short fiction, rich in metaphor and symbolism, is preoccupied, like his poetry, with 'the war of spiritual with natural order'. Themes and figures recur, notably Hanrahan the Red, the last of Ireland's Celtic singers, and several of Yeats's r...

  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherm

    First published in 1891, John Sherman and Dhoya was Yeats's third separate publication. The stories were revised and reprinted in the 1908 Collected Works in Verse and Prose but not published again in Yeats's lifetime. John Sherman, Yeats's only...

  • Irish Ghost Stories

    A collection of frightening tales from the Emerald Isle includes stories by Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, Patrick Kennedy and many more and features specters, haunted houses, banshees, and ominous death warnings....

  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree

    Poems from Yeats early Romantic Period, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, To Some I Have Talked With by the Fire, The Ballad of Father Gilligan, When You Are Old, The Rose Upon the Rood of Time, Who Goes With Fergus, and To Ireland in the Coming Times....

  • The Countess Cathleen

    W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet who was one of the biggest contributors to the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  In 1923, Yeats became the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.  This editi...

  • Poems

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  • Responsibilities and Other Poems

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Trembling of the Veil

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  • The Tables of the Law & the Adoration of the Magi

  • Ideas of Good and Evil

    One of the most famous poets of the 20th century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was so popular and renowned during his time that he was the leader of what came to be known as the Irish Literary Revival, on the strength of his short stories and viv...

  • The Wild Swans at Coole

    One of the most famous poets of the 20th century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was so popular and renowned during his time that he was the leader of what came to be known as the Irish Literary Revival, on the strength of his short stories and viv...

  • The Wind Among the Reeds

    One of the most famous poets of the 20th century, W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) was so popular and renowned during his time that he was the leader of what came to be known as the Irish Literary Revival, on the strength of his short stories and vivid poetry....

  • A Book of Irish Verse

    One of the most famous poets of the 20th century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was so popular and renowned during his time that he was the leader of what came to be known as the Irish Literary Revival, on the strength of his short stories and viv...

  • In the Seven Woods

  • Fairy and Folk Tales

  • Reveries Over Childhood and Youth

    My first memories are fragmentary and isolated and contemporaneous, as though one remembered vaguely some early day of the Seven Days. It seems as if time had not yet been created, for all are connected with emotion and place and without sequence. I ...



  • Seven Poems and a Fragment

  • Synge and the Ireland of His Time

    At times during Synge's last illness, Lady Gregory and I would speak of his work and always find some pleasure in the thought that unlike ourselves, who had made our experiments in public, he would leave to the world nothing to be wished away -- noth...

  • The Green Helmet and Other Poems

    One of the most famous poets of the 20th century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was so popular and renowned during his time that he was the leader of what came to be known as the Irish Literary Revival, on the strength of his short stories and viv...

  • Discoveries

    The little theatrical company I write my plays for had come to a west of Ireland town and was to give a performance in an old ball-room, for there was no other room big enough. I went there from a neighbouring country house and arriving a little befo...

  • The Land of Heart's Desire

    Book Excerpt: hite hands and at her pretty dress. I've brought you some new milk, but wait a while And I will put it to the fire to warm, For things well fitted for poor folk like us Would never please a high-born child like you.THE CHILD. From d...

  • Mosada

  • Two Plays for Dancers

    In a note at the end of my last book 'The Wild Swans at Coole' (Cuala Press.) I explained why I preferred this kind of drama, and where I had found my models, and where and how my first play after this kind was performed, and when and how I would hav...

  • Irish Fairy Tales

    Fairy tale collection compiled by the renowned poet, first published in 1892. According to Wikipedia: "William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 â€" 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literatur...

  • Yeats

    In Irish Folk and Fairy Tales William Butler Yeats delivers a vast collection of stories, songs, and poetry of his home country and beloved Irelandâ??s historical and legendary past. These writings helped secure for Yeatsâ?? recognition as a lea...

  • The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats

    The host is riding from Knocknarea And over the grave of Clooth-na-bare; Caolte tossing his burning hair And Niamh calling Away, come away: Empty your heart of its mortal dream. The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair ...



  • Samhain

  • Fairy Tales of Ireland

  • Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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  • Four Years

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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. At the end of the eighties my father and mother, my brother and sisters and myself, all newly arrived from Dublin, were settled in Bedford Park in a red-brick house with several wood mantlepieces copied fro...

  • The Hour Glass

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    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and together with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey...

  • The King's Threshold; And on Baile's Strand

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    An Old Man with a red dressing-gown, red slippers and red nightcap, holding a brass candlestick with a guttering candle in it, comes on from side of stage and goes in front of the dull green curtain. Old Man....

  • Rose

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Secret Rose

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Cutting of an Agate

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    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • Stories of Red Hanrahan

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    There was some silver and some copper money in the little leather bag under his coat, but it was seldom he needed to take anything from it, for it was little he used, and there was not one of the people that would have taken payment from him. His ...



  • Where There is Nothing

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  • Rosa Alchemica

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    • / Fantasy
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    The astonishing world of the occult revealed in twelve true tales by famous writers, all with a particular interest in the supernatural. In this volume, you will find stories and extracts which cover virtually every aspect of the occult and are tr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats has published 51 books.

William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fairy Tales of Ireland, was published in February 2019.

The first book by William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats, Celtic Twilight, was published in March 1962.

No. William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats does not write books in series.
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