WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

by Sam McCready


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND REFERENCE WORKS

Jeffares, A. Norman. A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984.

Jeffares, A. Norman, and Knowland, A. S. A Commentary on the Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats. London: Macmillan, 1975.

Wade, Allan. A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats. Rev. Russell K. Alspach. London: Hart-Davis, 1968.

COLLECTED WORKS

Yeats, W. B. Autobiographies. London: Macmillan, 1956.

________. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. 1950. Reprint, London: Macmillan, 1982.

________. The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats. 1952. Reprint, London: Macmillan,1982.

________. Essays and Introductions. New York: Macmillan, 1961.

________. Explorations. Selected by Mrs. W. B. Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1962.

________. Mythologies. New York: Macmillan, 1959.

________. A Vision. London: Macmillan, 1937.

EDITIONS

Allt, Peter, and Alspach, Russell K., eds. The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1968.

Alspach, Russell K., ed. The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats. London: Macmillan, 1966.

Bornstein, George, & Witemeyer, Hugh, eds. Letters to the New Island: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. Vol. VII. New York: Macmillan, 1989.

Clark, David R. & Rosalind E., eds. The Plays: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Vol. 2. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; New York: Scribner, 2001

Donoghue, Denis, ed. W. B. Yeats Memoirs: Autobiography--First Draft, Journal. London: Macmillan, 1972.

Finneran, Richard J., ed. John Sherman and Dhoya: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. XII. New York: Macmillan, 1994.

_______. ed. The Poems: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. I. New York: Macmillan, 1989.

Frayne, John P., ed. Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats 1: First Reviews and Articles, 1886-1896. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

_______. Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats 2: Reviews, Articles and Other Miscellaneous Prose, 1897-1939. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.

Gould, Warwick; Marcus, Phillip L.; and Sidnell, Michael J., eds. The Secret Rose: Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition. London: Macmillan, 1981.

O'Donnell, William H., ed. Later Essays: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. V. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

_______. Prefaces and Introductions: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. VI. New York: Macmillan, 1989.

Pearce, Donald R. The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960.

LETTERS

Bax, Clifford, ed. Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats. Dublin: Cuala, 1941.

Finneran, Richard J. The Correspondence of Robert Bridges and W. B. Yeats. London: Macmillan, 1977.

Hone, Joseph, ed. John Butler Yeats: Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats and Others, 1869-1922. 1944. Reprint, London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.

Kelly, John, and Domville, Eric, eds. The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats. Vol. I, 1865-1895. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

Kelly, John, and Schuchard, Ronald, eds. The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats. Vol. III, 1901-1904. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

McHugh, Roger, ed. Ah! Sweet Dancer: W. B. Yeats--Margot Ruddock, a Correspondence. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

________. W. B. Yeats: Letters to Katharine Tynan. New York: McMullen Books, 1953.

Wade, Allan, ed. The Letters of W. B. Yeats. New York: Octagon Books, 1980.

Raine, Kathleen, ed. Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. 1940. Reprint, London: Oxford University Press, 1964.

White, Anna MacBride, and Jeffares, A. Norman, eds. The Gonne-Yeats Letters: 1893-1938. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

ENCYCLOPEDIA

Conner, Lester I. A Yeats Dictionary: Persons and Places in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats Syracuse University Press, 1998

McCready, Sam. A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia.Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997

BIOGRAPHY

Alldritt, Keith. W. B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1997

Coote, Stephen. W. B. Yeats: A Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997

Ellmann, Richard. Yeats: The Man and the Masks. London: Macmillan, 1948

Foster, R. F. W. B. Yeats: A Life. The Apprentice Mage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

Hone, Joseph. W. B. Yeats: 1865-1939. 1943: Reprint, London: Macmillan, 1962

Jeffares, A. Norman. W. B. Yeats: A New Biography. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989

_______. W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962

Kuch, Peter.Yeats and AE: The Antagonism That Unites Dear Friends.Gerrards Cross, Bucks.: Colin Smythe, 1986

MacLiammóir, Micheál, and Boland, Eavan. W. B. Yeats and His World. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971

Murphy, William M. The Yeats Family and the Pollexfens of Sligo. Dublin: Dolmen, 1971 1971

Tuohy, Frank. Yeats. London: Macmillan, 1976

CRITICISM

Adams, Hazard. The Book of Yeats's Poems.Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1991.

Bradford, Curtis. Yeats at Work. Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1965.

Donoghue, Denis. Yeats. London: Fontana, 1971.

Dorn, Karen. Players and Painted Stage: The Theatre of W. B. Yeats. Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1984.

Ellis, Sylvia C. The Plays of W. B. Yeats: Yeats and the Dancer. London: Macmillan, 1995.

Ellmann, Richard. The Identity of Yeats. London: Faber & Faber, 1954.

Flannery, James W. W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The Early Abbey Theatre in Theory and Practice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

Fleming, Deborah, ed. W. B. Yeats and Postcolonialism. West Cornwall: Locust Hill Press, 2001

Gordon, D. J., ed. W. B. Yeats: Images of a Poet. Manchester: University of Manchester, 1961.

Gorski, William T. Yeats and Alchemy. Albany: State University of New York, 1996.

Harper, George M., ed. Yeats and the Occult. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975.

Jeffares, A. Norman. W. B. Yeats: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.

Loizeaux, Elizabeth Bergmann. Yeats and the Visual Arts. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Malins, Edward, and Purkis, John. A Preface to Yeats. 1974. Reprint, London: Longman, 1994.

Meir, Colin. The Ballads and Songs of W. B. Yeats: The Anglo-Irish Heritage in Subject and Style. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1974.

Melchiori, Giorgio. The Whole Mystery of Art: Pattern into Poetry in the Work of W. B. Yeats. London: Routledge and Paul, 1960.

Moore, Virginia. The Unicorn: William Butler Yeats' Search for Reality. New York: Octagon Books, 1973.

Murphy, William M. Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

O'Donnell, William H. A Guide to the Prose Fiction of W. B. Yeats. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1983.

O'Driscoll, Robert, and Reynolds, Lorna, eds. Yeats and the Theatre. Niagara Falls, N.Y.: Maclean- Hunter, 1975.

Skelton, Robin, and Saddlemyer, Ann, eds. The World of W. B. Yeats. Seattle: University of Washington, Press (1965) 1967.

Stallworthy, Jon. Between the Lines: Yeats's Poetry in the Making. Oxford: Clarendon, 1965.

________. Vision and Revision in Yeats's Last Poems. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969.

Stauffer, Donald A. The Golden Nightingale: Essays on Some Principles of Poetry in the Lyrics of William Butler Yeats, 1949.

Thuente, Mary Helen. W. B. Yeats and Irish Folklore. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1980.

Torchiana, Donald T. W. B. Yeats & Georgian Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Unterecker, John. A Reader's Guide to W. B. Yeats. London: Thames & Hudson, 1967.

________. Yeats: A Collection of Critical Essays. London: Prentice-Hall, 1963.

Watanabe, Nancy Ann. Beloved Image: The Drama of W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939. Lanham and London: University Press of America, 1995. MLA 1996 Book Award

Whitaker, Thomas R. Swan and Shadow: Yeats's Dialogue with History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1964.

Wilson, F. A. C. W. B. Yeats and Tradition.New York: Macmillan, 1958; London: Gollancz, 1960.

GENERAL INTEREST

Bardon, Jonathan. A History of Ulster. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1992.

Brown, Malcolm. The Politics of Irish Literature: From Thomas Davis to W. B. Yeats. London: Allen & Unwin, 1972.

Dames, Michael. Mythic Ireland. 1992. Reprint, New York: Thames & Hudson, 1996.

Foster, R. F. Modern Ireland, 1600-1972. 1988. Reprint, London: Penguin, 1989.

Hederman, M. P., and Kearney, R., eds. The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies. Dublin: Blackwater, 1982.

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