William Butler Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Volume 8 of 8. Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography
Hanrahan laments because of his Wanderings. Originally appeared, under the title O’Sullivan the Red upon his Wanderings, in The New Review, August, 1897.
The Travail of Passion. Originally appeared in The Savoy, January, 1896.
The Poet pleads with his Friend for old Friends. Originally appeared, under the title Song, in The Saturday Review, July 24, 1897.
Hanrahan Speaks to the Lovers of his Songs in coming Days. Originally appeared in the story The Vision of Hanrahan the Red. See The Secret Rose, 1897.
Aedh pleads with the Elemental Powers. Originally appeared, under the title Aodh Pleads with the Elemental Powers, in The Dome, December, 1898.
Aedh wishes his Beloved were dead.
Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.
Mongan thinks of his past Greatness. Originally appeared, under the title Song of Mongan, in The Dome, October, 1898.
Notes.
1900
The Shadowy Waters | By W. B. Yeats | London: Hodder and | Stoughton | 27 Paternoster Row: MCM
Cr. 4to, pp. 60. Cloth
CONTENTS
I walked among the seven woods of Coole. Originally appeared, under the title Introduction to a Dramatic Poem, in The Speaker, December 1, 1900.
The Shadowy Waters. Originally appeared in The North American Review, May, 1900.
1902
The Celtic Twilight [in red] | By W. B. Yeats | A. H. Bullen, [in red] 18 Cecil Court | St. Martin’s Lane, London, W.C. | MCMII
Cr. 8vo, pp. x and 236. Cloth
Portrait by J. B. Yeats facing title-page.
CONTENTS
Poem: Time drops in decay.
The Hosting of the Sidhe.
This Book. I. 1893. II. 1902.
A Teller of Tales.
Belief and Unbelief.
Mortal Help. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.
A Visionary. (With a new footnote.)
Village Ghosts.
‘Dust hath closed Helen’s Eye.’ I. 1900. II. 1902. Part I originally appeared in The Dome, October, 1899.
A Knight of the Sheep.
An Enduring Heart. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 26, 1902.
The Sorcerers. (With a new footnote.)
The Devil. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.
Happy and Unhappy Theologians. Originally appeared in The Speaker, February 15, 1902.
The Last Gleeman.
Regina, Regina Pigmeorum Veni. (With a new footnote.)
‘And Fair, Fierce Women.’ Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.
Enchanted Woods. Originally appeared in The Speaker, January 18, 1902.
Miraculous Creatures. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 26, 1902.
Aristotle of the Books. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.
The Swine of the Gods. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.
A Voice. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.
Kidnappers. (With a new footnote.)
The Untiring Ones. (With a new footnote.)
Earth, Fire and Water. Originally appeared in The Speaker, March 15, 1902.
The Old Town. Originally appeared in The Speaker, March 15, 1902.
The Man and his Boots.
A Coward.
The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries.
Drumcliffe and Rosses.
The Thick Skull of the Fortunate. I. 1893. II. 1902.
The Religion of a Sailor.
Concerning the nearness together of Heaven, Earth and Purgatory. 1892 and 1902.
The Eaters of Precious Stones.
Our Lady of the Hills.
The Golden Age.
A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries.
War. Originally appeared in The Speaker, March 15, 1902.
The Queen and the Fool. Originally appeared, under the title The Fool of Faery, in The Kensington, June, 1901.
The Friends of the People of Faery. Originally appeared as part of an essay, The Tribes of Danu, in The New Review, November, 1897.
Dreams that have no moral.
By the Roadside. Originally appeared in An Claideamh Soluis, July 13, 1901.
Into the Twilight.
Cathleen ni Hoolihan | A Play in One Act and | in Prose by W. B. Yeats | (ornament) [in red] | Printed at the Caradoc | Press Chiswick for A. H. | Bullen 18 Cecil Court Lon | don MDCCCCII
Pott 8vo, pp. vi (blank) and 34. Paper boards with leather back. Printed in red and black.
Cathleen ni Hoolihan originally appeared in Samhain, 1902.
1903
Ideas of Good and [in red] | Evil. [in red] By W. B. Yeats | A. H. Bullen [in red] 47 Great Russell | Street, London, W.C. MCMIII
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 342. Paper boards with cloth back.
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What is ‘Popular Poetry?’ Originally appeared in The Cornhill Magazine, March, 1902.
Speaking to the Psaltery. Originally appeared in The Monthly Review, May, 1902.
Magic. Originally appeared in The Monthly Review, September, 1901.
The Happiest of the Poets. Originally appeared in The Fortnightly Review, March, 1903.
The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry:
I. His Ruling Ideas. Originally appeared in The Dome, July, 1900.
II. His Ruling Symbols.
At Stratford-on-Avon. Originally appeared in The Speaker, May 11 and 18, 1901.
William Blake and the Imagination. Originally appeared under the title William Blake, in The Academy, June 19, 1897.
William Blake and his Illustrations to the Divine Comedy:
I. His Opinions upon Art. Originally appeared in The Savoy, July, 1896.
II. His Opinions upon Dante. Originally appeared in The Savoy, August, 1896.
III. The Illustrations of Dante. Originally appeared in The Savoy, September, 1896.
Symbolism in Painting. Originally appeared as part of the introduction to A Book of Images, 1898.
The Symbolism of Poetry. Originally appeared in The Dome, April, 1900.
The Theatre. The first section of this essay originally appeared in The Dome, April, 1899. The second originally appeared as part of an essay, The Irish Literary Theatre, 1900, in The Dome, Jan., 1900.
The Celtic Element in Literature. The first section of this essay originally appeared in Cosmopolis, June, 1898.
The Autumn of the Body. For original appearance see The Autumn of the Flesh in Literary Ideals in Ireland.
The Moods. Originally appeared as part of one of a series of articles on Irish National Literature, in The Bookman, August, 1895.
The Body of the Father Christian Rosencrux. Originally appeared as part of one of a series of articles on Irish National Literature, in The Bookman, September, 1895.
The Return of Ulysses. Originally appeared, under the title Mr. Robert Bridges, in The Bookman, June, 1897.
Ireland and the Arts. Originally appeared in The United Irishman, August 31, 1901.
The Galway Plains. Originally appeared, under the title Poets and Dreamers, in The New Liberal Review, March, 1903.
Emotion of Multitude.
Where There is Nothing: | being Volume One of Plays | for an Irish Theatre: by | W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen, 47, Great | Russell Street, W.C. 1903.
Cr. 8vo, pp. xii and 132. Paper boards with cloth back.
CONTENTS
Dedication of Volumes One and Two of Plays for an Irish Theatre.
Where There is Nothing. Originally appeared as a supplement to The United Irishman, Samhain, (Autumn) 1902.
In the Seven Woods: being poems | chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age | By William Butler Yeats | The Dun Emer Press | Dundrum | MCMIII
8vo, pp. viii [unnumbered, i-iv blank] and 68 [the last four blank]. Linen with paper label. The book printed in red and black.
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In the Seven Woods.
The Old Age of Queen Maeve. Originally appeared in The Fortnightly Review, April, 1903.
Baile and Aillinn. Originally appeared in The Monthly Review, July, 1902.
The Arrow.
The Folly of Being Comforted. Originally appeared in The Speaker, January 11, 1902.
The Withering of the Boughs. Originally appeared, under the title Echtge of Streams, in The Speaker, August 25, 1900.
Adam’s Curse. Originally appeared in The Monthly Review, December, 1902.
The Song of Red Hanrahan. Originally appeared, under the title Cathleen, Daughter of Hoolihan, in A Broadsheet, April, 1903.
The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water. Originally appeared in The Pall Mall Magazine, January, 1903.
Under the Moon. Originally appeared in The Speaker, June 15, 1901.
The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and themselves.
The Rider from the North. Originally appeared, under the title The Happy Townland, in The Weekly Critical Review, June, 1903.
On Baile’s Strand, a Play.
Edition limited to 325 copies.
The Hour-Glass | a Morality | By | W. B. Yeats | London | Wm. Heinemann, 21 Bedford St., W.C. | 1903
Demy 8vo, pp. 16 [the last two blank]
The Hour-Glass originally appeared in The North American Review, September, 1903.
A few copies only of this edition were printed, for purposes of copyright.
1904
The Hour-Glass, Cathleen | ni Hoolihan, The Pot of | Broth: Being Volume Two of | Plays for an Irish Theatre: | By W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen, 47, Great | Russell Street, W.C. 1904.
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 84. Paper boards with cloth back.
CONTENTS
The Hour-Glass: A Morality. For original appearance see above, under date 1903.
Cathleen ni Hoolihan. For original appearance see above, under date 1902.
The Pot of Broth.
Note on the Music.
The King’s Threshold: and | On Baile’s Strand: Being | Volume Three of Plays | for an Irish Theatre: By | W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen, 47, Great | Russell Street, W.C. 1904.
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 120. Paper boards with cloth back.
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Note.
A Prologue. Originally appeared in The United Irishman, September 9, 1903.
[The Prologue, which was accidentally dropped from later editions, ran thus: —
A PROLOGUE.[H]
An Old Man with a red dressing-gown, red slippers and red night-cap, 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. I’ve got to speak the prologue. [He shuffles on a few steps.] My nephew, who is one of the play actors, came to me, and I in my bed, and my prayers said, and the candle put out, and he told me there were so many characters in this new play, that all the company were in it, whether they had been long or short at the business, and that there wasn’t one left to speak the prologue. Wait a bit, there’s a draught here. [He pulls the curtain closer together.] That’s better. And that’s why I am here, and maybe I’m a fool for my pains.
And my nephew said, there are a good many plays to be played for you, some to-night and some on other nights through the winter, and the most of them are simple enough, and tell out their story to the end. But as to the big play you are to see to-night, my nephew taught me to say what the poet had taught him to say about it. [Puts down candlestick and puts right finger on left thumb.] First, he who told the story of Seanchan on King Guaire’s threshold long ago in the old books told it wrongly, for he was a friend of the king, or maybe afraid of the king, and so he put the king in the right. But he that tells the story now, being a poet, has put the poet in the right.
And then [touches other finger] I am to say: Some think it would be a finer tale if Seanchan had died at the end of it, and the king had the guilt at his door, for that might have served the poet’s cause better in the end. But that is not true, for if he that is in the story but a shadow and an image of poetry had not risen up from the death that threatened him, the ending would not have been true and joyful enough to be put into the voices of players and proclaimed in the mouths of trumpets, and poetry would have been badly served.
[He takes up the candlestick again.
And as to what happened Seanchan after, my nephew told me he didn’t know, and the poet didn’t know, and it’s likely there’s nobody that knows. But my nephew thinks he never sat down at the king’s table again, after the way he had been treated, but that he went to some quiet green place in the hills with Fedelm, his sweetheart, where the poor people made much of him because he was wise, and where he made songs and poems, and it’s likely enough he made some of the old songs and the old poems the poor people on the hillsides are saying and singing to-day.
[A trumpet-blast.
Well, it’s time for me to be going. That trumpet means that the curtain is going to rise, and after a while the stage there will be filled up with great ladies and great gentlemen, and poets, and a king with a crown on him, and all of them as high up in themselves with the pride of their youth and their strength and their fine clothes as if there was no such thing in the world as cold in the shoulders, and speckled shins, and the pains in the bones and the stiffness in the joints that make an old man that has the whole load of the world on him ready for his bed.
[He begins to shuffle away, and then stops.
And it would be better for me, that nephew of mine to be thinking less of his play-acting, and to have remembered to boil down the knap-weed with a bit of threepenny sugar, for me to be wetting my throat with now and again through the night, and drinking a sup to ease the pains in my bones.
[He goes out at side of stage.]
The King’s Threshold.
On Baile’s Strand. Originally appeared in In the Seven Woods, 1903.
Stories of Red Hanrahan by | William Butler Yeats | The Dun Emer Press | Dundrum MCMIV
8vo, pp. viii [unnumbered, i-ii blank] and 64 [last seven blank]. Paper boards with linen back, paper labels on front and side. The book printed in red and black; woodcut under Table of Contents on p. viii.
CONTENTS
Red Hanrahan. Originally appeared in The Independent Review, December, 1903.
The Twisting of the Rope.
Hanrahan and Cathleen the daughter of Hoolihan.
Red Hanrahan’s Curse.
Hanrahan’s Vision. Originally appeared, under the title Red Hanrahan’s Vision, in McClure’s Magazine, March, 1905.
The Death of Hanrahan.
Edition limited to 500 copies.
These stories are a re-telling in simpler language of some of the stories in The Secret Rose.
1906
Poems, 1899-1905 [in red] | By W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen | Dublin: Maunsel & Co., | Ltd. | 1906.
Cr. 8vo, pp. xvi and 280. Cloth
CONTENTS
Preface. [Dated In the Seven Woods, 18 May, 1906.]
I walked among the seven woods of Coole. [I]
The Harp of Aengus. [I]
The Shadowy Waters. [A new version.]
On Baile’s Strand. [A new version.] The Song of the Women (pp. 102-104) originally appeared, under the title Against Witchcraft, in The Shanachie [No. I., Spring, 1906].
In the Seven Woods:
In the Seven Woods. [J]
The Old Age of Queen Maeve. [J]
Baile and Aillinn. [J]
The Arrow. [J]
The Folly of being Comforted. [J]
Old Memory. Originally appeared in Wayfarer’s Love, 1904.
Never Give all the Heart. Originally appeared in McClure’s Magazine, December, 1905.
The Withering of the Boughs.[I]
Adam’s Curse. [I]
The Song of Red Hanrahan. [I]
The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water. [I]
Under the Moon. [I]
The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and themselves. [I]
The Happy Townland. [I]
The Entrance of Deirdre. Two verses of this poem originally appeared, under the title Queen Edaine, in McClure’s Magazine, September, 1905, and the whole poem under the title The Praise of Deirdre, in The Shanachie [No. I., Spring, 1906].
The King’s Threshold. [A new version.]
Notes.
1907
The Shadowy Waters, | By W. B. Yeats. | Acting Version, | As first played at the Abbey Theatre, December 8th, 1906. | A. H. Bullen, | 47 Great Russell Street, London, W.C. | 1907.
Cr. 8vo, pp. 28. Green paper cover
This is a slightly different version from that printed in Poems, 1899-1905.
Deirdre By W. B. Yeats | Being Volume Five of Plays | for an Irish Theatre | London: A. H. Bullen | Dublin: Maunsel & Co., Ltd. | 1907.
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 48. Paper boards with cloth back.
CONTENTS
Deirdre. For original appearance of the song Why is it, Queen Edain said, see The Entrance of Deirdre, in Poems, 1899-1905.
Note.
Discoveries; A Volume of Essays | By William Butler Yeats. | (Woodcut) | Dun Emer Press | Dundrum | MCMVII
8vo, pp. xvi [unnumbered, i-xi blank] and 56 [the last eleven blank]. Paper boards with linen back. The book printed in red and black.
CONTENTS
Prophet, Priest and King.
Personality and the Intellectual Essences.
The Musician and the Orator.
A Banjo Player.
The Looking-glass.
These five chapters appeared, under the general title My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, September, 1906.
The Tree of Life.
The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales.
The Play of Modern Manners.
Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own?
Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet.
These five chapters appeared, under the general title My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, October, 1906.
Concerning Saints and Artists.
The Subject Matter of Drama.
The Two Kinds of Asceticism.
In the Serpent’s Mouth.
The Black and the White Arrows.
His Mistress’s Eyebrows.
The Tresses of the Hair.
These seven chapters appeared, under the general title My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, November, 1906.
A Tower on the Apennine.
The Thinking of the Body.
Religious Belief necessary to symbolic Art.
The Holy Places.
These four chapters appeared, under the general title Discoveries, in The Shanachie, Autumn, 1907.
Edition limited to 200 copies.
1908
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, MCMVIII.
Eight volumes. Demy 8vo. Quarter vellum back with grey linen sides. With portraits by John S. Sargent, R.A., Signor Mancini, Charles Shannon and J. B. Yeats.
VOLUME I
CONTENTS.
The Wind Among the Reeds.
The Old Age of Queen Maeve.
Baile and Aillinn.
In the Seven Woods.
Ballads and Lyrics.
The Rose.
The Wanderings of Oisin.
Notes.
A few poems have been moved from The Wind Among the Reeds to Ballads and Lyrics and The Rose. Two poems are added to In the Seven Woods. These are: —
The Hollow Wood. Originally appeared in The Twisting of the Rope in Stories of Red Hanrahan, 1904.
O do not love too long. Originally appeared in The Acorn, October, 1905.
VOLUME II
The King’s Threshold.
On Baile’s Strand.
Deirdre.
The Shadowy Waters.
Appendix I: Acting Version of ‘The Shadowy Waters.’
Appendix II: A different version of Deirdre’s entrance.
Appendix III: The Legendary and Mythological Foundation of the Plays.
Appendix IV: The Dates and Places of Performance of Plays.
VOLUME III
The Countess Cathleen.
The Land of Heart’s Desire.
The Unicorn from the Stars. By Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats.
Appendix: The Countess Cathleen.
Notes.
Music by Florence Farr and others.
VOLUME IV
The Hour-Glass.
Cathleen ni Houlihan.
The Golden Helmet.
The Irish Dramatic Movement. Under this title are printed the greater part of Mr. Yeats’s contributions to Samhain, 1901-1906, and to The Arrow, 1906-1907, and two essays, An Irish National Theatre and The Theatre, the Pulpit, and the Newspapers, which originally appeared in The United Irishman, October 10 and 17, 1903.
Appendix I: ‘The Hour-Glass.’
Appendix II: ‘Cathleen ni Hoolihan.’
Appendix III: ‘The Golden Helmet.’
Appendix IV: Dates and Places of the First Performance of New Plays produced by the National Theatre Society and its predecessors.
VOLUME V
The Celtic Twilight.
Stories of Red Hanrahan.
VOLUME VI
Ideas of Good and Evil.
VOLUME VII
The Secret Rose.
[The Red Hanrahan stories are here omitted from The Secret Rose as the later versions of them appear in Volume V. Two other stories which appeared in the volume of 1897 are also omitted.]
Rosa Alchemica.
The Tables of the Law.
The Adoration of the Magi.
John Sherman. With a new Preface.
Dhoya.
VOLUME VIII
Discoveries.
Edmund Spenser. Originally appeared as the introduction to Poems of Spenser, 1906.
Poetry and Tradition.
Modern Irish Poetry. Originally appeared as the introduction to A Book of Irish Verse, 1895.
Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne. Originally appeared as the preface to Cuchulain of Muirthemne, 1902.
Lady Gregory’s Gods and Fighting Men. Originally appeared as the preface to Gods and Fighting Men, 1904.
Mr. Synge and his Plays. Originally appeared as the introduction to The Well of the Saints, 1905.
Lionel Johnson. For original appearance see A Treasury of Irish Poetry, 1900.
The Pathway. Originally appeared, under the title The Way of Wisdom, in The Speaker, April 14, 1900.
PART II.
BOOKS EDITED OR CONTRIBUTED TO BY W. B. YEATS
1888
Poems and Ballads | of | Young Ireland | 1888 | “We’re one at heart if you be Ireland’s friend, | Though leagues asunder our opinions tend; | There are but two great parties in the end.”| Allingham. | Dublin | M. H. Gill and Son | O’Connell Street | 1888
Fcap. 8vo, pp. viii and 80. White buckram
Mr. Yeats’s contributions are: —
The Stolen Child, pp. 12-14.
King Goll (Third Century), pp. 43-46. Originally appeared in The Leisure Hour, September, 1887.
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman, p. 59. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, October, 1886.
Love Song. From the Gaelic, p. 80.
Fairy and Folk Tales | of the Irish Peasantry: | Edited and Selected by | W. B. Yeats. London: | Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane. | New York: Thomas Whittaker | Toronto: W. J. Gage and Co. | 1888
Sm. cr. 8vo, pp. xx and 326. Cloth. A volume of The Camelot Series (afterwards The Scott Library).
Mr. Yeats’s contributions are: —
Introduction, pp. ix-xviii.
The Trooping Fairies, pp. 1-3.
Notes on pp. 16, 33, 38.
Changelings, p. 47.
The Stolen Child, pp. 59-60. Reprinted from Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, 1888.
The Merrow, p. 61.
The Solitary Fairies, pp. 80-81.
The Pooka, p. 94.
The Banshee, p. 108.
Ghosts, pp. 128-129.
Witches, Fairy Doctors, pp. 146-149.
Note on p. 150.
Tir-na-n-Og, p. 200.
Saints, Priests, p. 214.
The Priest of Coloony, pp. 220-221.
Giants, p. 260.
Notes, pp. 319-326.
1893. Illustrated Edition.
Irish | Fairy and Folk Tales | Selected and Edited | with introduction | by W. B. Yeats. | Twelve Illustrations by James Torrance. | London: Walter Scott, Ltd. | 24 Warwick Lane.
Cr. 8vo, pp. xx and 326. Cloth.
1889
Stories from Carleton: | With an introduction | by W. B. Yeats. | London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane. | New York and Toronto: | W. J. Gage & Co.
Sm. cr. 8vo, pp. xx and 302. Cloth. A volume of The Camelot Classics (afterwards The Scott Library).
Mr. Yeats’s Introduction includes pp. ix-xvii.
1890
Representative | Irish Tales | Compiled, with an Introduction and Notes | by | W. B. Yeats | First [Second] Series | (Ornament) | New York and London | G. P. Putnam’s Sons | The Knickerbocker Press [Entire title printed on a yellow ground and enclosed within a red line border.]
32mo. Vol. I., pp. vi and 340. Vol. II., pp. iv and 356. Decorated boards with cloth backs.
Mr. Yeats’s contributions are: —
VOLUME I
Dedication. “There was a green branch hung with many a bell.” Pp. iii-iv.
Introduction, pp. 1-17.
Maria Edgeworth, pp. 19-24.
John and Michael Banim, pp. 141-150.
William Carleton, pp. 191-196.
VOLUME II
Samuel Lover, pp. 1-3.
William Maginn, pp. 91-92.
T. Crofton Croker, pp. 129-130.
Gerald Griffin, pp. 161-164.
Charles Lever, pp. 205-209.
Charles Kickham, pp. 243-245.
Miss Rosa Mulholland, p. 281.
Note, p. 331.
1892
Irish | Fairy Tales | edited | with an introduction | by | W. B. Yeats | author of ‘The Wanderings of Oisin,’ etc. | Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats | London | T. Fisher Unwin | 1892
Fcap. 8vo, pp. viii and 236. Cloth. A volume of The Children’s Library.
Mr. Yeats’s contributions are: —
Poem. ‘Where my books go.’ (Dated London, Jan., 1892.) P. v.
Introduction. ‘An Irish Story-teller.’ (Dated Clondalkin, July, 1891.) Pp. 1-7.
Note on pp. 8-9.
Appendix. Classification of Irish Fairies. (Dated Co. Down, June, 1891.) Pp. 223-233.
Authorities of Irish Folklore, pp. 234-236.
The Book | of the | Rhymers’ Club | (Press mark) | London | Elkin Mathews | At the Sign of the Bodley Head | in Vigo Street | 1892 | All rights reserved
Royal 16mo, pp. xvi and 94. Paper boards.
Mr. Yeats’s contributions are: —
A Man who dreamed of Fairyland, pp. 7-9. Originally appeared in The National Observer, February 7, 1891.
Father Gilligan, pp. 38-40. Originally appeared in The Scots Observer, July 5, 1890.
Dedication of ‘Irish Tales,’ pp. 54-55. Originally appeared in Representative Irish Tales, 1890.
A Fairy Song, p. 71. Originally appeared in The National Observer, September 12, 1891.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree, p. 84. Originally appeared in The National Observer, Dec. 13, 1890.
An Epitaph, p. 88. Originally appeared in The National Observer, December 12, 1891.
The | Poets [in red] | and the | Poetry [in red] | of the | Century [in red] | Charles Kingsley | to | James Thomson | Edited by [in red] | Alfred H. Miles [in red] | Hutchinson & Co. | 25, Paternoster Square, London
Post 8vo, pp. xx and 652. Cloth.
Mr. Yeats contributes a note on William Allingham, pp. 209-212.
The | Poets [in red] | and the | Poetry [in red] | of the | Century [in red] | Joanna Baillie | to | Mathilde Blind | Edited by [in red] | Alfred H. Miles [in red] | Hutchinson & Co. 25, Paternoster Square, London
Post 8vo, pp. xvi and 640. Cloth.
Mr. Yeats contributes a note on Ellen O’Leary, pp. 449-452.
1893
The Works | of | William Blake | Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical | Edited with Lithographs of the Illustrated | “Prophetic Books,” and a Memoir | and Interpretation | by | Edwin John Ellis | Author of “Fate in Arcadia,” &c. | and | William Butler Yeats | Author of “The Wanderings of Oisin,” “The Countess Kathleen,” &c. | “Bring me to the test | And I the matter will reword, which madness | Would gambol from” | Hamlet | In Three Vols. | Vol. I. [II. III.] | London | Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly | 1893 | [All Rights Reserved]
Three volumes. Royal 8vo. Cloth.
The Poems | of | William Blake [in red] | Edited by | W. B. Yeats. | (Press mark of Lawrence and Bullen)
18mo, pp. liv and 252. Cloth. A volume of The Muses’ Library.
Mr. Yeats’s contributions are: —
Introduction, pp. xv-liv.
Notes, pp. 235-251.
1894
The Second Book | of | The Rhymers’ Club | London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane | New York: Dodd, Mead & Company | 1894 | All rights reserved
Royal 16mo, pp. xvi and 136. Cloth.
Mr. Yeats’s contributions are: —
The Rose in my Heart, p. 11. Originally appeared in The National Observer, November 12, 1892.
The Folk of the Air, pp. 37-39. Originally appeared, under the title The Stolen Bride, in The Bookman, November, 1893.
The Fiddler of Dooney, pp. 68-69. Originally appeared in The Bookman, December, 1892.
A Mystical Prayer to the Masters of the Elements – Finvarra, Feacra, and Caolte, pp. 91-92. Originally appeared, under the title A Mystical Prayer to the Masters of the Elements, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, in The Bookman, October, 1892.
The Cap and Bells, pp. 108-109. Originally appeared, under the title Cap and Bell, in The National Observer, March 17, 1894.
The Song of the Old Mother, p. 126. Originally appeared in The Bookman, April, 1894.
1895
A Book of | Irish Verse | Selected from modern writers | with an introduction | and notes | by W. B. Yeats | Methuen & Co | 36 Essex Street, W.C. | London | 1895.
Cr. 8vo, pp. xxviii and 260. Linen.
Mr. Yeats’s contributions are: —
Introduction. (Dated August 5, 1894.) Pp. xi-xxvii.
Acknowledgment, p. xxviii.
Notes, pp. 250-257.
1900. Revised edition.
This contains a new Preface, dated August 15, 1899, and the introduction much revised and now entitled Modern Irish Poetry. The selection of poetry is also revised.
1898
A Book of Images | Drawn by W. T. | Horton & Intro-|duced by W. B. Yeats| London at the Unicorn | Press VII Cecil Court St. | Martin’s Lane MDCCCXCVIII
Fcap. 4to, pp. 62. Cloth. Number II. of The Unicorn Quartos.
Mr. Yeats’s Introduction includes pp. 7-16.
1899
Literary | Ideals in | Ireland. | By John Eglinton; | W. B. Yeats | A. E.; | W. Larminie. | Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London. | And at the Daily Express Office, Dublin.
Long 8vo, pp. ii and 88. Paper covers.
Mr. Yeats’s contributions are: —
A Note on National Drama, pp. 17-20. Originally appeared, as part of an essay under the title The Poems and Stories of Miss Nora Hopper, in The Dublin Daily Express, September 24, 1898.
John Eglinton and Spiritual Art, pp. 31-37. Originally appeared in The Dublin Daily Express, October 29, 1898.
The Autumn of the Flesh, pp. 69-75. Originally appeared in The Dublin Daily Express, December 3, 1898.
