The Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. & annot. by Peter McDonald (London 2020- )

Bibliographical details: The Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. & annot., Peter McDonald [Longman Series of Annotated English Poets] (London: Routledge 2020- ) [4 vols.] - of which Vol. I: 1882-1889 (2020), 724pp.; Vol II: 1890-1898 (2021), 624pp.; Vol. III: 1899-1910 (2023), 474pp. [4th vol. pending at 2025].
Vol. 1: 1882-1889 Vol. II: 1890-1898 Vol. III: 1899-1910 Vol. IV: 1911-39
Publisher’s note: ‘In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeats’s poetry presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats’s poetry to date, explaining specific references, and setting poems in their contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived by the poet. [...]’. The listings below have been compiled from records at Routledge [online], Taylor Francis [online] and COPAC/Discover [online]. 11.10.2025.

Query: First edition published by Routledge (London) as part of the Longman Annotated English Poets series, and afterwards issued in digital form by Taylor & Francis (Oxford). [COPAC 2025.]

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Volume One: 1882-1889 (Routledge 2020). CONTENTS: 1. [‘A Flower Has Blossomed…’];  2. The Old Grey Man; 3. Child’s Play  4. [‘I Sat Upon a High Gnarled Root’]  5. [‘A Double Moon or More Ago’]  6. [Fragment of Opening Scene of an Abandoned Verse-Play]  7. The Priest of Pan  8. Inscription for a Christmas Card  9. Pan; 10. [‘The World is but a Strange Romance’]; 11. Sunrise; 12. The Dell; 13. [‘Tower Wind-Beaten, Grim’]; 14. [Dramatic Fragment]; 15. Vivien and Time; 16. [As Me Upon My Way the Tram-Car Whirled’]; 17. [‘Death Hath Ta’en My Child to Nurse’]; 18. [‘My Song Thou Knowest of a Dreaming Castle’]; 19. [Speech From the Opening of an Abandoned Dramatic Poem]; 20. [‘When to Its End O’er-Ripened July Nears’’]; 21. Fragment (‘I Raise to Thee No Praying Voice...’); 22. [‘The Children Play in White and Red’]; 23. [‘Behold the Man’]; 24. [‘A Soul of the Fountain Spake Me a Word’]; 25. [‘A Sound Came Floating, an Unearthly Sound’]; 26. Love and Death; 27. Unused scene from Love and Death; 28. Song of the Faeries; 29. [‘Mong Meadows of Sweet Grain’]; 30. Sansloy – Sansfoy – Sansjoy; 31. [Love and Sorrow]; 32. Mosada; 33. [‘For Clapping Hands of All Men’s Love’]; 34. The Magpie; 35. The Island of StatuesAn Arcadian Faery Tale – in Two Acts; 36. ‘The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes’; 37. [‘Truth Is Bold, But Falsehood Fears’ ]; 38. Fragment (‘And Helen’s Eyes’); 39. Love’s Decay  40. The Field Mouse41. Time and the Witch Vivien  42. [Hushed in the Vale of Dajestan’]  43. An Old and Solitary One  44. A Song of Sunset  45. Love and Death  46. [‘The Dew Comes Dropping’]  47. From The Village of the Elms  48. The Seeker: A Dramatic Poem – In Two Scenes  49. The Song of the Happy Shepherd  50. In a Drawing-Room  51. Life  52. The Sad Shepherd  53. The Two Titans: A Political Poem  54. [‘There Sings a Rose by the Rim’]  55. The Priest and the Fairy  56. Kanva on Himself  57. On Mr. Nettleship’s Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy  58. The Meditation of the Old Fisherman  59. The Falling of the Leaves  60. The Stolen Child  61. To – (Remembrance)  62. The Indian Upon God  63. An Indian Song  64. Song of Spanish Insurgents  65. Quatrains and Aphorisms  66. The Fairy Pedant  67. A Dawn-Song  68. Anashuya and Vijaya  69. King Goll: An Irish Legend  70. [‘How Beautiful Thy Colours Are…’]  71. The Ballad of Moll Magee  72. How Ferencz Renya Kept Silent: Hungary, 1848  73. Love Song: From the Gaelic  74. She Who Dwelt Among the Sycamores: A Fancy  75. The Protestants’ Leap  76. Ephemera  77. The Fairy Doctor  78. Girl’s Song  79. [‘Wherever in the Wastes of Wrinkling Sand’]  80. A Lover’s Quarrel Among the Fairies  81. The Wanderings of Oisin and How a Demon Trapped Him  82. King Goll (Third Century)  83. A Legend  84. Down by the Salley Gardens  85. The Ballad of Father O’ Hart  86. The Phantom Ship  87. Street Dancers  88. To an Isle in the Water  89. The Lake Isle of Innisfree  90. In the Firelight  91. The Outlaw’s Bridal: Ireland, 16**  92. In Church  93. A Summer Evening  94. The Ballad of the Foxhunter  95. Who Goes with Fergus?  Appendix 1: Contents of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)  Appendix 2: Initial prose draft of The Island of Statues

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Volume Two: 1890-1898 (London; Routledge; 25 Sept. 2021). CONTENTS: Chronology of W.B. Yeats’s Life and Publications, 1890-1898  Abbreviations  THE POEMS  96. A Cradle Song  97. The Ballad of Father Gilligan  98. Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists  99. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner 100. The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland; 101. The Pathway; 102. The White Birds; 103. To a Sister of the Cross and the Rose; 104. A Faery Song; 105. A Salutation; 106. The Rose of Battle; 107. A Dream of a Blessed Spirit; 108. Mourn – And then Onward!; 109. When You are Old; 110. [‘He Who Bids the White Plains of the Pole’]; 111. A Dream of Other Lives; 112. The Sorrow of Love; 113. A Song of the Rosy-Cross; 114. The Rose of the World; 115. A Dream of Death; 116. The Death of Cuchulain; 117. The Pity of Love; 118. The Two Trees; 119. To the Rose upon the Rood of Time; 120. To Ireland in the Coming Times; 121. The Rose of Peace; 122. Where My Books Go; 123. Fergus and the Druid; 124. When You are Sad; 125. A Mystical Prayer to the Masters of the Elements, Finvarra, Feacra, and Caolte; 126. The Watch-Fire; 127. The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart; 128. The Fiddler of Dooney; 129. [‘I Never Have Seen Maid Quiet’]; 130. Into the Twilight; 131. The Danaan Quicken Tree; 132. The Ballad of Earl Paul; 133. The Cap and Bells; 134. The Moods; 135. The Host; 136. [‘He Treads a Road of Glint and Gleam’]; 137. Wisdom and Dreams; 138. On a Child’s Death; 139. The Glove and the Cloak; 140. The Host of the Air; 141. [‘Veering, Fleeting, Fickle, the Winds of Knocknarea’]; 142. The Song of the Old Mother; 143. [‘White Daughter of the Iron Time...’]; 144. [‘I Will Not in Grey Hours Revoke’]; 145. The Heart of the Woman; 146. [‘The Poet, Owen Hanrahan…’]; 147. The Lover to his Heart; 148. [‘Out of Sight is Out of Mind’]; 149. The Indian to His Love; 150. The Wanderings of Oisin; 151. The Madness of King Goll; 152. To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire; 153. He Gives his Beloved Certain Rhymes; 154. [‘The Loud Years Come, the Loud Years Go’]; 155. A Poet to his Beloved; 156. The Everlasting Voices; 157. The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods; 158. He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace; 159. He Tells of the Perfect Beauty; 160. The Lover Speaks to the Hearers of his Songs in the Coming Days; 161. The Travail of Passion; 162.  The Valley of the Black Pig; 163. The Unappeasable Host; 164. He Remembers Forgotten Beauty; 165. The Secret Rose; 166. He Reproves the Curlew; 167. To His Heart, Bidding it Have No Fear; 168. He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers; 169. [‘O Tufted Reeds, Bend Low…’]; 170. The Shadowy Waters [1896 TS version]; 171. The Blessed; 172. He Mourns for the Change That Has Come Upon Him and His Beloved, and Longs for the End of the World; 173. The Lover Pleads With His Friend for Old Friends; 174. The Song of Wandering Aengus; 175. Hanrahan Laments Because of His Wanderings; 176. The Hosting of the Sidhe; 177. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven; 178. He Wishes his Beloved Were Dead; 179. He Hears the Cry of the Sedge; 180. The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love; 181. He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of his Beloved; 182. The Fish; 183. He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven; 184. The Poet Pleads With the Elemental Powers   Appendix 1: Contents of W.B. Yeats’s volumes of poetry, 1892-1899.  Appendix 2: Draft ‘Subject for Lyric’ (late 1890s).

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Volume Three: 1899-1910 (Oxford 2023). CONTENTS: A Note from the General Editors; Acknowledgements; Chronology of W.B. Yeats’s Life and Publications, 1899-1910; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The Poems: [Nos.] 185 The Song of Heffernan the Blind: A Translation; 186. The Shadowy Waters (1900); 187 The Withering of the Boughs; 188. Under the Moon; 189. [‘I walked among the seven woods of Coole’]; 190. Baile and Aillinn; 191. Yellow Haired Donough; 192. [‘Do not make a great keening’]; 193. The Blood Bond; 194. Spinning Song; 195. The Folly of Being Comforted; 196. The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves; 197. The Arrow; 198. Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland; 199. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water; 200 In the Seven Woods; 201. The Old Age of Queen Maeve; 202 Adam’s Curse; 203. The Happy Townland; 204 O Do Not Love Too Long; 205. [‘I heard under a ragged hollow wood’]; 206. Old Memory; 207. Never give all the heart; 208. Songs from Deirdre: I; 209. The Ragged Wood; 210. The Harp of Aengus; 211. The Shadowy Waters; 212. [‘Come ride and ride to the garden’]; 213. Against Witchcraft; 214. Songs from Deirdre: III; 215. Songs from Deirdre: II; 216. [‘The friends that have it I do wrong’]; 217. Maid Quiet; 218. [‘O Death’s old bony finger’]; 219. An Appointment; 220 [‘Accursed who brings to light of day’]; 221 His Dream; 222. All things can tempt me; 223 At Galway races; 224 Reconciliation; 225. No Second Troy; 226. Words; 227. [‘My dear is angry that of late’]; 228. [On a certain middle-aged office holder]; 229 A Friend’s illness; 230 On George Moore; 231. The Coming of Wisdom with Time; 232. To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine; 233. Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation; 234. The Fascination of What’s Difficult; 235. [‘Irishmen, if they prefer’]; 236. King and No King; 237. A drinking song; 238. On those that hated The Playboy of the Western World, 1907; 239. A Woman Homer Sung; 240. Peace; 241. Against Unworthy Praise; 242. These are the Clouds; 243. The Mask; 244. [‘But every powerful life goes on its way...’]; 245. Brown Penny; Appendix 1: Contents of W.B. Yeats’s Volumes of Poetry, 1899-1910; Appendix 2: Prefatory Material by W.B. Yeats in Collections of Poetry, 1899-1910; Index of Poems; Index of First Lines.

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