W B Yeats Books In Order

Collections

  1. Plays for an Irish Theatre (1911)
  2. Stories of Red Hanrahan (1913)
  3. Four Plays for Dancers (1921)
  4. A Vision (1925)
  5. Collected Plays of W.B.Yeats (1934)
  6. Fairy Tales of Ireland (2019)

Plays

  1. The Herne’s Egg (1938)

Anthologies edited

  1. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888)
  2. Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (1918)
  3. Mythologies (1959)

Non fiction

  1. The Cutting of an Agate (1919)
  2. Essays (1924)
  3. Autobiographies (1927)
  4. Essays and Introductions (1961)
  5. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (1993)
  6. Four Years 1887-1891 (2009)
  7. Early Essays (2009)
  8. Later Articles and Reviews (2010)

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W B Yeats Books Overview

Plays for an Irish Theatre

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 Theatre, and served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as ‘inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation’. He is generally considered one of the few writers whose greatest works were completed after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower 1928 and The Winding Stair and Other Poems 1929. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889. From 1900, Yeats’ poetry grew more physical and realistic. His other works include: The Countess Kathleen 1892, The Celtic Twilight 1893, The Land of Heart’s Desire 1894, The Secret Rose 1897, The Hour Glass 1903, Stories of Red Hanrahan 1904, Synge and the Ireland of His Time 1912, and Four Years 1921.

Stories of Red Hanrahan

RED HANRAHAN Hanrahan, the hedge schoolmaster, a tall, strong, red haired young man, came into the barn where some of the men of the village were sitting on Samham Eve. It had been a dwelling house, and when the man that owned it had built a better one, he had put the two rooms together, and kept it for a place to store one thing or another. There was a fire on the old hearth, and there were dip candles stuck in bottles, and there was a black quart bottle upon some boards that had been put across two barrels to make a table. Most of the men were sitting beside the fire, and one of them was singing a long wandering song, about a Munster man and a Connaught man that were quarrelling about their two provinces. Hanrahan went to the man of the house and said, ‘I got your message’; but when he had said that, he stopped, for an old 3About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www. forgottenbooks. org

Four Plays for Dancers

PERSONS OF THE PLAYTHREE MUSICIANS their faces made up to resemble masks. THE GUARDIAN OF THE WELL with face made up to resemblea mask. AN OLD MAN wearing a mask.A YOUNG MAN wearing a mask. The Time the Irish Heroic Age. The stage is any bare space before a wall against whichstands a patterned screen. A drum and a gong and a zitherhave been laid close to the screen before the play begins. Ifnecessary, they can be carried in, after the audience is seated, bythe First Musician, who also can attend to the lights if thereis any special lighting. We had two lanterns upon postsdesignedby Mr. Dulac at the outer co’rners oj the stage, butthey did not give enough light, and we found it better to playby the light oj a large chandelier. Indeed I think, so far asmy present experience goes, that the most effective lighting isthe lighting we are most accustomed to in our rooms. Thesemasked players seem stranger when there is no mechanicalmeans if separatingTable of Contents CONTENTS; AT THE HAWK’S WELL; THE ONLY JEALOUSY OF EMER 25; THE DREAMING OF THE BONES 51; CALVARY 69; NOTE ON THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF ‘AT THE HAWK’S WELL’ 83; MUSIC FOR’ AT THE HAWK’S WELL’ 89; NOTE ON ‘THE ONLY JEALOUSY OF EMER’ 103; MUSIC FOR’ THE DREAMING OF THE BONES’ 107; NOTE ON ‘THE DREAMlr”G OF THE BONES’ 127; NOTE ON ‘CALVARY’ 133About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimil

A Vision

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of literary modernism, A Vision is Yeats’s greatest occult work. Edited by Yeats scholars Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, the volume presents the ‘system’ of philosophy, psychology, history, and the life of the soul that Yeats and his wife George n e Hyde Lees received and created by means of mediumistic experiments from 1917 through the early 1920s. Yeats obsessively revised the book, and the revised 1937 version is much more widely available than its predecessor. The original 1925 version of A Vision, poetic, unpolished, masked in fiction, and close to the excitement of the automatic writing that the Yeatses believed to be its supernatural origin, is presented here in a scholarly edition for the first time. The text, minimally corrected to retain the sense of the original, is extensively annotated, with particular attention paid to the relationship between the published book and its complex genetic materials. Indispensable to an understanding of the poet’s late work and entrancing on its own merit, A Vision aims to be, all at once, a work of theoretical history, an esoteric philosophy, an aesthetic symbology, a psychological schema, and a sacred book. It is as difficult as it is essential reading for any student of Yeats.

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Book Description: ‘This is an anthology of Irish folklore, edited by W. B. Yeats. Many of these stories are from books which are archived at this site; some are from books which have yet to be converted to etext or now rare source material. He selected many of the best and often funniest tales from other writers such as Lady Wilde, Croker, Lover, Hyde, and Carelton. Yeats wrote introductory material and notes to many of these stories. ‘ Quote from sacred texts. comTable of Contents: Publisher’s Preface; Introduction; The Trooping Fairies; The Fairies; Frank Martin And The Fairies; The Priest’s Supper; The Fairy Well Of Lagnanay; Teig O’kane tadhg O C th n And The Corpse ; Paddy Corcoran’s Wife; Cusheen Loo; The White Trout; A Legend Of Cong; The Fairy Thorn; The Legend Of Knockgrafton; A Donegal Fairy; Changelings; The Brewery Of Egg shells; The Fairy Nurse; Jamie Freel And The Young Lady; The Stolen Child; The Merrow; The Soul Cages; Flory Cantillon’s Funeral; Lepracaun. Cluricaun. Far Darrig; The Lepracaun; Or Fairy Shoemaker; Master And Man; Far Darrig In Donegal; The Pooka; The Piper And The Puca; Daniel O’rourke; The Kildare Pooka ; The Banshee; How Thomas Connolly Met The Banshee; A Lamentation; The Banshee Of The Mac Carthys; Ghosts; A Dream; Grace Connor; A Legend Of Tyrone; The Black Lamb ; Song Of The Ghost; The Radiant Boy; The Fate Of Frank M’kenna; Witches, Fairy Doctors; Bewitched Butter donegal; A Queen’s County Witch ; The Witch Hare; Bewitched Butter queen’s County ; The Horned Women ; The Witches’ Excursion ; The Confessions Of Tom Bourke; The Pudding Bewitched; T’yeer na n oge; The Legend Of O’donoghue ; Rent day; Loughleagh lake Of Healing ; Hy brasail the Isle Of The Blest; The Phantom Isle; Saints, Priests; The Priest’s Soul ; The Priest Of Coloony; The Story Of The Little Bird ; Conversion Of King Laoghair’s Daughters; King O’toole And His Goose; The Demon Cat ; The Long Spoon ; The Countess Kathleen O’shea ; The Three Wishes; Giants; The Giant’s Stairs ; A Legend Of Knockmany; The Twelve Wild Geese ; The Lazy Beauty And Her Aunts ; The Haughty Princess ; The Enchantment Of Gearoidh Iarla; Munachar And Manachar; Donald And His Neighbours; The Jackdaw; The Story Of Conn eda; Or The Golden Apples Of Lough Erne ; Notes; Gods Of The Earth. par. 5,; Sir Samuel Ferguson; Cusheen Loo; Legend Of Knockgrafton; Stolen Child; Solitary Fairies; Banshee’s Cry; Omens; A Witch Trial; T’yeer na n oge; The Ganconer Or Gancanagh gean canach ; Father John O’hart; Shoneen And Sleiveen; Demon Cat; A Legend Of Knockmany; Some Authorities On Irish Folk lore; EndnotesAbout the Publisher: Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www. forgottenbooks. orgForgotten Books is about sharing information, not about making money. All books are priced at wholesale prices. We are also the only publisher we know of to print in large sans serif font, which is proven to make the text easier to read and put less strain on your eyes.

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats 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 stories, songs, and poetry of Ireland’s historical and legendary past. These writings helped secure for Yeats recognition as a leading proponent of Irish nationalism and Irish cultural independence. Originally published in two separate books near the end of the nineteenth century, these tales have preserved a rich and charming heritage in a charmingly authentic Irish voice. In this volume, extraordinary characters of Irish myth are brought to life through the brilliant poetic voice of W.B. Yeats. These legendary stories of capricious Trooping Fairies, the frightful Banshee, Kings and Queens, Giants, Devils and the ever popular Leprechaun will delight and entertain readers of all ages.

Mythologies

1893. This is a collection of Irish stories of the supernatural and uncanny, based on country beliefs, traditions and folk tales. Contents: The Celtic Twilight; The Secret Rose; Stories of Red Hanrahan; Rosa Alchemica; Tables of the Law; Adoration of the Magi; and Per Amica Silentia Lunae. This book is essential for all the readers of Yeats’ poetry and plays. It reveals that Yeats could work unique enchantment in prose, as well as poetry.

The Cutting of an Agate

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISCOVERIES PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING 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 before the players, tried to open a window. My hands were black with dirt in a moment, and presently a pane of glass and a part of the window frame came out in my hands. Everything in this room was half in ruins, the rotten boards cracked under my feet, and our new proscenium and the new boards of the platform looked out of place, and yet the room was not really old, in spite of the musicians’ gallery over the stage. It had been built by some romantic or philanthropic landlord some three or four generations ago, and was a memory of we knew not what unfinished scheme. From there I went to look for the players, and called for information on a young priest, who had invited them and taken upon himself the finding of an audience. He lived in a high house with other priests, and as I went in I noticed with a whimsical pleasure a broken pane of glass in the fanlight over the door, for he had once told me the story of an old woman who a good many years ago quarrelled with the bishop, got drunk and hurled a stone through the painted glass. He was a clever man who read Meredith and Ibsen, but some of his books had been packed in the fire grate by his housekeeper, instead of the customary view of an Italian lake or the coloured tissue paper. The players, who had been giving a performance in a neighbouring town, had not yet come, or were unpacking their costumes and properties at the hotel he had recommended them. We should have time, he said, to go through the half ruined town and to visit the convent…

Autobiographies

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume III: Autobiographies is part of the fourteen volume series overseen by eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finnerah and George Mills Harper. The series includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate’s published work, with authoritative and explanatory notes. Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, The Trembling of the Veil, Dramatis Personae, Estrangement, The Death of Synge, and The Bounty of Sweden that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid 1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume provides a vivid series of personal accounts of a wide range of figures, and it describes Yeats’s work as poet and playwright, as a founder of Dublin’s famed Abbey Theatre, his involvement with Irish nationalism, and his fascination with occultism and visions. This book is most compelling as Yeats’s own account of the growth of his poetic imagination. Yeats thought that a poet leads a life of allegory, and that his works are comments upon it. Autobiographies enacts his ruling belief in the connections and coherence between the life that he led and the works that he wrote. It is a vision of personal history as art, and so it is the one truly essential companion to his poems and plays. Edited by William H. O’Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald, this volume is available for the first time with invaluable explanatory notes and includes previously unpublished passages from candidly explicit first drafts.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume X: Later Articles and Reviews is part of a fourteen volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This first complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate’s published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes. Later Articles and Reviews consists of fifty four prose pieces published between 1900 and Yeats’s death in January 1939 and benefits from the notes and emendations of Yeats scholar Colton Johnson. The pieces collected here are occasional, and they reflect the many interests and engagements of Yeats in his maturity. No longer a reviewer or polemicist, Yeats is an international figure: a senator in the fledgling Irish state, a defining modern poet, a distinguished essayist. And here we have him writing with grace, wit, and passion on the state of Ireland in the world, on Irish language and Irish literature, on his artistic contemporaries, on the Abbey Theater, on divorce, on censorship, on his evolution as a poet and dramatist, on his own poetry. Volume X also includes texts of ten radio programs Yeats broadcast between 1931 and 1937. This is not only the first collection but also the first printing of Yeats’s radio work, which constitutes the largest previously uncollected body of his writings and possibly the most important to remain largely unstudied. Carefully assembled from manuscripts, typescripts, broadcast scripts, and fragmentary recordings, the programs range from a scripted interview on contemporary issues to elaborate stagings of his own and others’ poetry. One of the radio programs is presented in an appendix complete with the commissioned musical score that set Yeats’s poetry to music, Yeats’s own emendations on the BBC broadcast script, and the diacritical notes with which the broadcast reader indicated Yeats’s interpretive instructions. Here, then, is seasoned Yeats, writing and speaking vigorously and with keen personal insight about the modern age and his place in it.

Early Essays

Early Essays, edited by the internationally esteemed Yeats scholars George Bornstein and Richard J. Finneran, includes the contents of the two most important collections of Yeats’s critical prose, Ideas of Good and Evil 1903 and The Cutting of an Agate 1912, 1919. Among the seminal essays are considerations of Blake, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, and Synge, as well as an extended discussion of the Japanese Noh theatre. The first scholarly edition of these materials, Early Essays offers a corrected text and detailed annotation of all allusions. Several appendices include materials from early printings which were later excluded, as well as black and white illustrations. Early Essays is essential reading for understanding Yeats’s career and the development of modern poetry and criticism

Later Articles and Reviews

Later Articles and Reviews‘ draws together 54 prose pieces published between 1900 and Yeats’s death in January 1939. The variety of the pieces here reflect the range of Yeats’s interests in his maturity. We see him in his various roles as Irish senator, modern poet and a distinguished essayist, writing on a range of topics, from the Abbey Theatre to his own evolution as a poet. The volume also includes transcripts of ten radio programmes broadcast by Yeats between 1931 and 1937. An appendix and notes section supplement the texts.

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