William Butler Yeats: Works (2) - Contents

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Representative Irish Tales [1891] - 1st edition: Representative Irish Tales, compiled, with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats [Knickerbocker Nuggets], 2 vols. (NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1891]), v., 339pp.; 15 cm. [bound in light blue, blue and gold patterned cloth over boards; deep blue cloth shelfback; stamped in gold on covers and spine; top edge gilt and trimmed; catalogued as Wade 215.] Note: contains stories and excerpts by [Carleton and nine other Irish authors, incl. Maria Edgworth whose Castle Rackrent is given in its entirety. (See rep. edn., ed. Mary Helen Thuente Gerrards Cross 1979) - as follows.

Representative Irish Tales [1891], ed. W. B. Yeats [facs. rep. of 1st edn., as infra] with Foreword by Mary Helen Thuente (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1979; rep. 1991), 364pp. CONTENTS: Vol. I - Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackent [entire excepting Glossary]. John & Michael Banim, “The Stolen Sheep” (from A Bit O’ Writing, 1838); Banims, “The Mayor of Wind-Gap” (sep. scenes from The Mayor of Wind-Gap, 1834). William Carleton, “Wildgoose Lodge” (from Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 1830-33, prev. rep. in Stories from Carleton; note deletion of add. paras. of information on background); Carleton, “Condy Cullan and the Gauger” (prev. as “Condy Cullen or the Exciseman Defeated”, in Barney Brady’s Goose; The Hedge School, the Three Tasks, and other Irish Tales [n.d., n.p.; personal copy of W. B. Yeats], also publ. as “Condy Cullen, or the Irish Rake”, in Tales and Sketches, 1845); Carleton, “The Curse” (excerpt from “Party Fight and Funeral”, in Traits and Stories ); Carleton, “The Battle of the Factions” (from Traits and Stories). Vol. II - Samuel Lover, “Barny O’Reirdon, the Navigator” (from Legends and Stories of Ireland, 1st ser. 1831); Lover, “Paddy the Piper” (from Legends and Stories of Ireland, 1st ser. 1831; admitted in a note by Lover to be by a friend). William Maginn, “Father Tom and the Pope” (printed anon. in Blackwood’s, 43, May 1838, pp.614-17; actually by Samuel Ferguson as made known in Mary Ferguson’s Sir Samuel Ferguson and the Ireland of his Day, 1895; episode of the kissing of Pope’s housekeeper here omitted - see further under Maginn, supra). T. C. Croker, “The Confessions of Tom Bourke” (from Fairy Legends and Folk Tales ... [ &c .], Vol. I, 1825; prev. rep. in Fairy and Folk Tales, 1888). Gerald Griffin, “The Knight of the Sheep” (from Tales of My Neighbourhood, 1835); “The Death of the Huntsman” (excerpt from The Collegians, 1825); Charles Lever, “Trinity College” (excerpt from Charles O’Malley, 1841). Charles Kickham, “The Pig-Driving Peelers” (excerpt from For the Old Land, 1886). Rosa Mulholland, “The Hungry Death” (unpub. and sent to Yeats by Father Russell). Anon., “The Jackdaw” (orig. in The Royal Hibernian Tales, C. M. Warren c.1829; prev. rep. in Fairy and Folk Tales, 1888); “Darby Doyle’s Visit to Quebec” (Dublin Penny Journal, 1 No. 24, 8 Dec. 1832.) [Notes from Thuente, ‘A List of Sources’, in Gerrards Cross rep. edn., 1979, pp.21-23.

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The Celtic Twilight. Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries, &c. (London: Lawrence & Bullen 1893), xii, 212pp., ill. [1 pl.; 16.4cm.; printed in London by Richard Clay Sons]; Do. as The Celtic Twilight [rev. & enl. edition] (London: A. H. Bullen 1902), [2], x, 234 [2]pp., ill. [1 pl., port. by John Butler Yeats, 1896; 19.3cm. ‘Reprinted with additions 1902’, p.iv.] See details of the 1893 Edition - infra; also those of the 1902 Edition - infra.

The Celtic Twilight / Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries. / by / W. B. Yeats / with a frontispiece by J. B. Yeats [1st edn.] (London: Lawrence and Bullen 1893), xii, 212pp., front. [pl.; 16.4cm.; printed by Richard Clay & Sons. “Time Drops in decay”; CONTENTS [pp.ix-x]; “This Book”; “A Teller of Tales”; “Belief and Unbelief”; “A Visionary”; “Village Ghosts”; “A Knight of the Sheep”; “The Sorcerers”; “The Last Gleeman”; “Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni”; “Kidnappers”; “The Untiring Ones”; “The Man and His Boots”; “A Coward”; “The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries”; “Drumcliff and Rosses”; “The Thick Skull of the Fortunate”; “The Religion of the Sailor”; “Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory”; “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”; “The Four Winds of Desire”; “Into the Twilight”. [For further details, incl. variations between the preface (i.e., “This Book”) in the First and Second Editions, see Editorial Notes attched to The Celtic Twilight (1902 Edn.) in RICORSO Library, > “Irish Classics” > Yeats > - via index or direct.]

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The Celtic Twilight / by W. B. Yeats [rev. & enl.] (London: A. H. Bullen, Cecil Court, St. Martin’s Lane, London W.C. / MMCII [1902]), [2], x, 234 [2]pp., 1 pl. [frontis. port. of W. B. Yeats, by John B. Yeats, dated 1896; 19.3cm.]; t.p. [p.v]; ‘reprint of 1893 Edition with additions’ [p.iv]. CONTENTS [pp.ix-x]: “Time drops in decay …” [untitled poem; vi]; “The Host” [i.e., “The Hosting of the Sidhe” [poem, vii]. “This Book” [1]; “A Teller of Tales” [4; part publ. in Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 1888, Introduction]; “Belief and Unbelief” [8; previously in part in FFTIP; final para. deleted in 1902 Edn.]; “Mortal Help” [12; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 19 April 1902 - being 5th of 6 stories in 4th of 5 essays]; “A Visionary” [15; first publ. as “An Irish Visionary” in National Observer, ed. W. E. Henley, 3 Oct. 1891]; “Village Ghosts” [23]; “‘Dust hath closed Helen’s Eye’” [35; first publ. in The Dome, Oct. 1899; title from “In Time of Pestilence”, a poem of Thomas Nashe; the para. ‘When I was in a nothern town ...’ added in 1902]; “A Knight of the Sheep” [50; prev. as “An Impression”, in Speaker, 21 Oct. 1893; title from Griffin’s, “The Knight of the Sheep” in Tales of My Neighbourhood, 1835; signifies a strong farmer - cf. Gl. ridire caorach]; “An Enduring Heart” [56; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 19 April 1902 - being 2nd of 2stories in 5th of 5 essays, and an add. story on the knight of the sheep]; “The Sorcerers” [61; additional sentence in 1902 edition]; “The Devil” [69; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 19 April 1902 - being 3rd of 6 stories in 4th of 5 essays]; “Happy and Unhappy Theologians” [71; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 15 Feb. 1902 - being 2nd essay of 5]; “The Last Gleeman” [79; National Observer, 6 May 1893]; “Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni” [79; ftn. of 1924 edn. explains that this was an incantation used by [William] Lilly, astrologer, in Windsor Forest; based on personal events described in a letter to Richard Le Gallienne, [15] Oct. 1892 - Coll. Letters, I, p.321; a second note on ‘trance’ added in 1924 but deleted in subsequent editions; also printed in Irish Home Reading Magazine, May 1894]; “‘And Fair, Fierce Women’” [97; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 19 April 1902 - being 4th of 6 stories in 4th of 5 essays]; “Enchanted Woods” [101; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 18 Jan. 1902 - being 1st essay of 5]; “Miraculous Creatures” [109; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 26 April 1902 - being 1st of 2 stories in 5th of 5 essays]; “Aristotle of the Books” [112; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 19 April 1902 - being 6th of 6 stories in 4th of 5 essays]; “The Swine of the Gods” [113; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 19 April 1902 - being 2nd of 6 stories in 4th of 5 essays]; “A Voice” [115; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 19 April 1902 - being 1st of 6 stories in 4th of 5 essays]; “Kidnappers” [117]; “The Untiring Ones” [130; prob. by oral sources - indicated by transcription of Cailleach Bérri (or Beare), as noted by Robert Welch (Yeats, Irish Folklore [... &c.] 1993)]; “Earth, Fire and Water” [135; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 15 March 1902 - being 3rd of 3 stories in 3rd of 5 essays]; “The Old Town” [137; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 15 March 1902 - being 1st of 3 stories in 3rd of 5 essays]; “The Man and His Boots” [141]; “A Coward” [143]; “The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries” [145; prev. as in “Irish Fairies”, in Leisure Hour, Oct. 1890]; “Drumcliff and Rosses” [148]; “The Thick Skull of the Fortunate” [160; 2nd. sect. commencing ‘I wrote all this years ago ...’, added 1902]; “The Religion of a Sailor” [163]; “Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory” [165]; “The Eaters of Precious Stones” [167]; “Our Lady of the Hills” [169; first pub. in the Speaker, 11 Nov. 1893]; “The Golden Age” [173]; “A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the Disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries” [176]; “War” [183; first publ. in “New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight”, in the Speaker, 15 March 1902 - being 2nd of 3 stories in 3rd of 5 essays]; “The Queen and the Fool” [186]; “The Friends of the People of Faery” [195]; “Dreams that have no Moral” [208]; “By the Roadside” [231; first publ. in An Claidmeamh Soluis, 13 July 1901]; “Into the Twilight” [poem, 235].

[ See a full-text copy of the 1902 Edition, with annotations relating to its variance from the 1893 Edition, in RICORSO Library> “Irish Classics” > W. B. Yeats - via index or direct. ]

[Note: The above listing has been annotated with reference to Robert Welch, ed., Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth (Penguin 1993) - vide Notes[392ff.] square-brackets denote initial page-numbers of the stories, each beginning after on an unnumbered page following a separate a t.p. with a blank verso (also unnumbered). Asterisks denote items first published in 1902 edition - some having previously appearing in journals as indicated in the details given after page numbers.

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The Celtic Twilight, introduced by Kathleen Raine [prev. 1893, 1902; compiled by Raine to her own taste] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1981). CONTENTS: Introduction by Kathleen Raine [7]; “Time drops in decay” [untitled poem; 30]; The Host [31]; This Book [32]; A Teller of Tales [34]; Belief and Unbelief [36]; Mortal Help* [38]; A Visionary [40]; Village Ghosts [43]; “Dust hath closed Helen’s Eye”* [49]; A Knight of the Sheep [56]; An Enduring Heart* [59]; The Sorcerers [62]; The Devil* [65]; Happy and Unhappy Theologians* [67]; The Last Gleeman [71]; Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni [77]; “And Fair, Fierce Women” [81]; Enchanted Woods* [83]; Miraculous Creatures* [87]; Aristotle of the Books* [88]; The Swine of the Gods* [89]; A Voice* [90]; Kidnappers [91]; The Untiring Ones [97]; Earth, Fire and Water* [100]; The Old Town* [101]; The Man and His Boots [103]; A Coward [104]; The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries [105]; Drumcliff and Rosses [107]; The Thick Skull of the Fortunate [115]; The Religion of a Sailor [117]; Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth and Purgatory [118]; The Eaters of Precious Stones [119]; Our Lady of the Hills [120]; The Golden Age [122]; A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the Disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries [124]; War* [127]; The Queen and the Fool* [129]; The Friends of the People of Faery* [135]; Dreams that have no Moral* [141]; By the Roadside* [153]; Appendix: The Four Winds of Desire [155]; Into the Twilight [verse; 160]. Asterisks mark - given in her edition - mark stories added in the 1902 edition.

Illustrations by Jean Townsend: Queen Maeve and Knocknarea [3]; The white cat [44]; The devil [66]; The queen of the little people [78]; The tale of the bride stolen by the faeries [94]; “I sat trembling and turning the corpse until midnight.” [110]; The man in armour in the churchyard [113]; “That love, when limbs are interwoven” [131]; The kisses of Aengus and his messenger 133]; The fish and those who ate it [142]; The princess, Jack, the serpent and the bully [148]. Note: Asterisks denote items first included in 1902 edition (though first published in literary jourrnals, &c.).

See also The Celtic Twilight[being one section] in the Macmillan reprint collection The Secret Rose (1959, as infra) - being a selection from Mythologies (1959, as infra) combining The Celtic Twilight (1893, 1902) with The Secret Rose (1897) and Stories of Red Hanrahan (also 1897). This edition cites The Celtic Twilight (1893) in its subtitle but actually contains all of stories of the 1902 edition along with footnotes from that edition with some others specifically dated 1924 which were first printed in Early Poems and Stories (1925). Neither the prefixed verses nor the preface (“This Book”) of the 1893 or 1902 editions are included in this edition, which also omits “The Four Winds of Desire” [see note].

Note: “The Four Winds of Desire” is erroneously listed as part of the contents of the 1902 edition in Robert Welch, ed., Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth, by W. B. Yeats (Penguin 1993), Appendix [pp.456-58], p.458. That piece is, however, included in the 1981 re-set edition introduced by Kathleen Raine and issued by Colin Smythe (The Celtic Twilight, Gerrards Cross: 1981, 160pp.). Raine’s edition is based on the 1893 and 1902 editions combined whilst incorporating notes from the editions of 1902 and 1924 (i.e., that one included in Early Poems, 1924). As she explains: ‘The present edition contains the text of the earlier version (1893) but with the additions of the later stories also - those dated 1902 in the second edition.’ (p.7.) This allows for the inclusion of “The Four Winds of Desire”, here given as ‘Appendix’ (p.155.).

“The Four Winds of Desire” is properly excluded from the digital version given at Sacred Texts website, which contains a page-by-page table of contents up to p.235 [see online; accessed 25.10.2010]. Note, however, a discrepancy between the pagination in that edition - which includes 12 [pp.[1]-xii] pages of prefatory material with a body of 235 pages (pp.[1]-235]) - and the pagination listed for the 1902 volume in the catalogues of several major libraries list in COPAC (i.e., x, 234pp.)

Note: The Celtic Twilightis largely reprinted in Mythologies (London: Macmillan & Co. 1959), pp.5-141. Viz., A Teller of Tales [5]; Belief and Unbelief [7]; Mortal Help [9]; A Visionary [11]; Village Ghosts [15]; ‘Dust hath closed Helen’s Eye’ [22]; A Knight of the Sheep [31]; An Enduring Heart [34]; The Sorcerers [37]; The Devil [41]; Happy and Unhappy Theologians [42]; The Last Gleeman [47]; Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni [54]; ‘And Fair, Fierce Women’ [57]; Enchanted Woods [670]; Miraculous Creatures [65]; Aristotle of the Books [66]; The Swine of the Gods [67]; A Voice [68]; Kidnappers [70]; The Untiring Ones [77]; Earth, Fire and Water [80]; The Old Town [81]; The Man and His Boots [83]; A Coward [85]; The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries [86]; Drumcliff and Rosses [8]; The Thick Skull of the Fortunate [95]; The Religion of a Sailor [97]; Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth and Purgatory [98]; The Eaters of Precious Stones [100]; Our Lady of the Hills [101]; The Golden Age [104]; A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having Soured the Disposition of Their Ghosts and Faeries [106]; War [110]; The Queen and the Fool [112]; The Friends of the People of Faery [117]; Dreams that have no Moral [125]; By the Roadside [138]; Into the Twilight [verse; 141]. (For full contents of Mythologies, 1959, see infra.)

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Stories of Red Hanrahan [orig. 1897 - followed by a new edition re-written with Lady Gregory] (Dun Emer Press 1904 [actually 1905]), [8], 58, [6]pp., ill. by wodcuts [‘rewritten in 1907 with Lady Gregory’s Help’; ltd. ed. of 500 copies; 21cm.] - CONTENTS: “Red Hanrahan”; “The Twisting of the Rope”; “Hanrahan and Cathleen the Daughter of Hoolihan”; “Red Hanrahan’s Curse”; “Hanrahan’s Vision”; “The Death of Hanrahan”. [Note all the stories prev. printed before revision in The Secret Rose (1897) except “Red Hanrahan”, which is new.]

Red Hanrahan, and The Secret Rose, illustrated and decorated by Nora McGuinness (London: Macmillan & Co. 1927), vii, 182pp., 8°/23cm, [selections; 2 lvs. of pls. incl. front; some col. ills.]

The Works of William Blake, [...] Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical Edition / Ed. with lithographs of the illustrated “Prophetic books”, and a memoir and interpretation by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, 3 vols. (London: Bernard Quaritch 1893) [ltd. edn. 500; Wade 218], and Do. [NY: AMS Press 1973].

See Gerald Eades Bentley & Martin K. Nurmi, A Blake Bibliography: Annotated List of Works, Studies, and Blakeana (Minnesota UP 1964) - cites items by Yeats:

294. The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. Ed. with Lithographs of the Illustrated “Prophetic Books,” and a Memoir and Interpretation by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats. In Three Vols. London, 1892. “The Memoir” is Vol. I, pp.1-72. “The Literary Period” is Vol. I, pp.175-232. “The Symbolic System” is Vol. I, pp.235-420. “Interpretation and Paraphrased Commentary” is Vol. II, pp.3-301. “Blake the Artist” is Vol. II, pp.405-435. All of Blakes works are in Vol. III. There are 296 plates. / The lithographs include complete facsimiles of Thel, Vision of the daughters of Albion, The Song of Los, America, Europe, Mitlon (45 plates), and Jerusalem, in all of which the quality is poor.

[With comments:] On May 3rd 1900 Yeats wrote: ‘The writing of this book is mainly Ellis’s. The thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the “symbolic system” is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me, except in the case of the “literary period”, the account of the minor poems, and the account of Blake’s art theories which are all his own except in so far as we disucssed everything together.” See Hazard Adams [Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision (Ithaca NY: Cornell UP 1955], no. 610, p.47. / The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance, but the reproductions are unreliable, the transcriptions inaccurate, the biography surprisingly fictional, and the criticism and interpretation throughout colored by the editor’s peculiar preconceptions. The work is likely to prove useful only to adepts in both Blake and Yeats. (p.74.)

[ See also notes from The Works ... &c. and other editions of Blake made by Yeats, in RICORSO Library> “Authors” > Yeats - as attached. ]

Also lists -

240A. The Poems of William Blake. Ed. W. B. Yeats. London, 1893. B. London & NY. [1905] The Muses Library. C. Mr William Butler Yeats introduces the Poetical Works of William Blake. London. 1910. Books that Marked Epochs. D. Poems of William Blake. NY. [1920] Modern Library. [See 294.] The introductions are pp.xv-liii in A; pp.xi-lxix in B; pp.xi-xlix in C; pp.xi-xli in D. Yeats’s introduction is incorporated int no.f208, in Japanese. (p.69.) [...]

Note: NLI Catalogue listing Yeats’s vellum bound copy of his edition of Blake is described in Wade as item, 218: with manuscript note in ink on front flyleaf of volume 1, in W. B. Yeats’s own hand ‘The writing of this book ... [etc.]’, signed ‘WBY, May 1900’; also manuscript annotations and revisions in Yeats’s own hand throughout all three volumes; binder’s ink stamp to verso of front free endpaper in all three volumes: ‘Bound by Mudie’; 3 volumes: illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 27 cm. Bibl. A descriptive catalog of W. B. Yeats’s library, Edward O’Shea. - New York; London: Garland, 1985. page 34. Provenance: YL 220 - From the Library of W. B. Yeats.

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Essays and Introductions (1961). - CONTENTS: Introduction, pp.vii-xi; ESSAYS, I: Ideas of Good and Evil, What Is Popular Poetry? [3]; Speaking To The Psaltery [13]; Magic [18]; The Happiest of The Poets [53]; The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry [65]; At Stratford-on-Avon [96]; William Blake and the Imagination [111]; William Blake And His Illustrations to the Divine Comedy [116]; Symbolism in Painting [146]; The Symbolism of Poetry [153]; The Theatre [165]; The Celtic Element in Literature [173]; The Autumn of The Body [189]; The Moods [195]; The Body of the Father Christian Rosencrux [196]; The Return of Ulysses [198]; Ireland and the Arts [203]; The Galway Plains [211]; Emotion of Multitude [215] II: The Cutting of an Agate, Certain Noble Plays of Japan [221]; The Tragic Theatre [138]; Poetry and Tradition [246]; Discoveries [261]; Preface to the First Edition of The Well of The Saints [298]; Preface to the first edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations [306]; J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time [311]; John Shawe-Taylor [343]; Art and Ideas [346]; Edmund Spenser [356]. LATER ESSAYS AND INTRODUCTIONS. Gitanjali [387]; Bishop Berkeley [396]; My Friend’s Book (A.E.’s Songs and Fountains ) [412]; Prometheus Unbound [419]; An Indian Monk [426]; Louis Lambert [438]; The Holy Mountain [448]; The Mandukya Upanishad [474]; Parnell [486]; Modern Poetry [491]; A General Introduction for My Work [509] An Introduction for My Plays [527-30; END]. Ill. [frontispiece Portrait of Yeats by John Butler Yeats, NGI]; photo port. of Yeats by Howard Coster, facing p.385].

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See also Mythologies (London: Macmillan 1925, 1934); and Do. [2nd. edn. with additional plays] (1952) - reissued as Mythologies (1959) - as supra. See Do. [another edn.] ([Dublin:] Gill & Macmillan Dec. 1990) at Google Books - online.

Mythologies, ed. Warwick Gould & Deirdre Toomey [Variorum Edition] (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2005), cx, 545pp. [24cm]. CONTENTS: The Celtic Twilight; The Secret Rose; Stories of Red Hanrahan; Rosa Alchemica; The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi.

Mythologies [1st Touchstone Edn.] (NY: Simon & Schuster 1987, 1998), vii, 368pp. [25cm.] CONTENTS: The Celtic Twilight; The Secret Rose; Stories of Red Hanrahan; Rosa Alchemica; The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi; Per Amica Silentia Lunae.

See also The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats [Vol. 7]: “Rosa Alchemica”; “The Tables of the Law”; “The Adoration of the Magi”; John Sherman and Dhoya [Vol.7] (Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-on-Avon, MCMVIII [1908]). 

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Explorations, Selected by Mrs. W. B. Yeats (London & NY: Macmillan 1962), viii, 452pp. [with port.]; incls. “The Irish Dramatic Movement, 1901-1919”; “From Wheels and Butterflies”; “Pages from a diary written in nineteen hundred and thirty, 1944]”; “On the Boiler”]; and Do., trans. under dir. of Jacqueline Genet [Centre du Litterature, linguistique et civilisation des pays de langue anglaise de l'Université de Caen] (Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille 1981), xiv, 426pp. [contains Explorations I: Le mouvement dramatique irlandais, 1901-1919; Explorations II: Pages d'un journal de 1930, 1944; Extraits de Roues et papillons, 1934; Extraits de Sur la chaudière, 1939. [Omits works reproduced elsewhere in The W.B. Yeats Collection [i.e., by Macmillan]; dates of first publication as cited in A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats by Allan Wade, 3rd Edn/., rev. & ed. by Russell K. Alspach (1968).] Another edn. in English (NY: Collier 1963), viii, 452pp.

The Secret Rose and Other Stories [selected from Mythologies, 1959] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan [n.d.]) [after Macmillan Edn. of 1959], 261pp. [title derived from the Shakespeare head edition and not to be confused with The Secret Rose (1897) - listed in Works 1, supra.] CONTENTS. The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales [5]; Belief and Unbelief [7]; Mortal Help [9]; A Visionary [11]; Village Ghosts [15]; “Dust Hath Closed Helen’s Eye” [22]; A Knight of the Sheep [31]; An Enduring Heart [34]; The Sorcerers [37]; The Devil [41]; Happy and Unhappy theologians [42]; the Last Gleeman [47]; Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni [54]; “And Fair, Fierce Women” [57]; Enchanted Woods [60]; Miraculous Creatures [65]; Aristotle of the Books [66]; The Wine of the Gods [67]; A voice [68]; Kidnappers [70]; The Untiring Ones [77]; Earth, Fire and Water [80]; The Old Town [81]; The man and his Boots [83]; A Coward [85]; The Three O’Brynes and the Evil Fairies [86]; Drumcliff and Rosses [88]; The Thick Skull of the Fortunate [95]; The Religion of a Sailor [97]; Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth and Purgatory [98]; The Eaters of Precious Stones [100]; Our Lady of the Hills [101]; The Golden Age [104] A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for Having Soured the Disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries [106]; War [11]; The Queen and the Fool [112]; The Friends of the People of Faery [117]; Dreams that Have No Moral [125]; By the Roadside [138]; Into the Twilight [141]. The Secret Rose (1897): To the Secret Rose [poem; 145]; The Crucifixion of the Outcast [147]; Out of the Rose [157]; The Wisdom of the Kind [165]; The Heart of the Spring [171]; The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows [177]; Where There is Nothing, There is God [184]; The Old Men of the Twilight [191]; Proud Costello, MacDermot’s Daughter, and the Bitter Tongue [196]. Stories of Red Hanrahan (1897): Red Hanrahan [213]; The Twisting of the Rope [225]; Hanrahan and Cathleen, the Daughter of Houlihan [234]; Red Hanrahan’s Curse [238]; Hanrahan’s Vision [246]; The Death of Hanrahan [253].

Note: The contents of The Celtic Twilightas given here are appear in the table of contents under the title The Celtic Twilight (1893) but are actually those of The Celtic Twilight (1902) excepting for the Appendix entitled “The Four Winds of Desire” (listed by Robert Welch [ed.] in W. B. Yeats: Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend, and Myth, Penguin 1993, [Appendix,] pp.487-89, and given as text in Kathleen Raine, intro., The Celtic Twilight, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1981, p.155-59.

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Edited Fiction & A Vision (1925, rev. 1937)

George J. Watson, ed., W. B. Yeats / Short Fiction (London: Penguin Books 1995) [xliii, 264pp.] - CONTENTS [v]; Acknowledgements [vii]; A Textual and Editorial Introduction [ix-xv]; Abbreviations [xvii]; Introduction [xix-xliii]; John Sherman (1891) [1]; Dhoya (1891) [65]; The Secret Rose with The Tables of the Lawand The Adoration of the Magi (1897) [77] - The Binding of the Hair [83]; The Wisdom of the King [88]; Where There is Nothing, There is God [94]; The Crucifixion of the Outcast [99]; Out of the Rose [107]; The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows [115]; The Heart of the Spring [119]; Of Costello the Proud, of Oona the Daughter of Dermott and of the Bitter Tongue [124]; The Book of the Great Dhoul and Hanrahan the Red [138]; The Twisting of the Rope and Hanrahan the Red [145]; Kathleen the Daughter of Houlihan and Hanrahan the Red [151]; The Curse of Hanrahan the Red [155]; The Vision of Hanrahan the Red [160]; The Death of Hanrahan the Red [165]; The Rose of Shadow [171]; From Stories from Red Hanrahan (1905) [219] - Red Hanrahan [221]; Appendices: I. Yeats and Ireland’s Legendary History [231]; II. Glossary of Yeats’s Place Names Notes [239].

Yeats’s Vision Papers, gen. ed. George Mills Harper, gen. ed. [assisted by Mary Jane Harper, et al.] (London: Macmillan 1992-2001) - Vol. I: The Automatic Script (5 November 1917-18 June 1918), ed. Steve Adams, Barbara Frieling & Sandra Sprayberry (London: Macmillan/Iowa UP 1992), xiii,596pp.; Vol. II: The Automatic Script (25 June 1918-29 March 1920), ed. Adams, Frieling & Sprayberry (London: Macmillan/Iowa UP 1992); Vol. III: Sleep and Dream Notebooks & Vision Notebooks 1 & 2 [Card File], ed. Robert Martinich & Margaret Mills Harper (London: Macmillan/Iowa UP 1992), xiii, 444pp., ill. [facs.]; Vol. IV: George Mills Harper & Margaret Mills Harper, assisted by Richard W. Stoops, Discoveries of Michael Robartes Version B [“the great wheel” and “the 28 embodiments”] (London: Macmillan/Palgrave 2001), xiv, 276pp., ill. 24cm. Note: The Vision Papers incorporate over 3,600pp. of original MSS made at 450 sittings over 20 months.

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The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats [with plays additional to the 1934 edition] (London: Macmillan 1952, 1960), 705pp. CONTENTS: Preface to the Fitst Edition (1934) [v]; Contents [vi]; The Countess Cathleen (1892), ded. ‘To Maud Gonne’ [1]; The Land of Heart’s Desire (1894), ded. ‘To Florence Farr’ [51]; Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902) [73]; The Pot of Broth (1904) [ 89]; The King’s Threshold (1904) [105]; The Shadowy Waters (1911) [145]; Deirdre (1907) [169]; At the Hawk’s Well (1917) [205]; The Green Helmet (1910) [221]; On Baile’s Strand (1904) [245]; The Only Jealousy of Emer (1919) [279]; The Hour-Glass (1914) [297]; The Unicorn From The Stars (1908) [325]; The Player Queen (1922) [385]; The Dreaming of The Bones (1919’)[431]; Calvary (1920) [447]; The Cat and the Moon (1926) [459]; Sophocles’ King Oedipus (1928) [473]; Sophocles’ Oedipus At Colonus (1934) [519]; The Resurrection (1931) [577]; The Words upon the Window-Pane (1934). 595]; A Full Moon in March (1935) [619]; The King of the Great Clock Tower (1935) [631]; The Herne’s Egg (1938) [643]; Purgatory (1939) [679]; The Death of Cuchulain (1939) [691]; [FRONTISPIECE: W. B. Yeats, from a drawing by J. S. SARGENT, R.A

The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats, as Vol. 2 of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan / NY: Scribner), ed. Ann Saddlemyer (Basingstoke: Palgrave [Macmillan] 2001), 959pp., 22cm. [with music scores]. CONTENTS: Preface; Abbreviations. PART ONE: An Introduction for My Plays (1937); The Countess Cathleen (1892); The Land of Heart’s Desire (1894); Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902); The Hour-Glass [in prose] (1903); The Pot of Broth (1904); The King’s Threshold (1904); On Baile’s Strand (1904); Deirdre (1907); The Unicorn from the Stars (1908); The Green Helmet (1910); The Shadowy Waters (1911); The Hour-Glass [in verse] (1914); Four Plays for Dancers (1921); At the Hawk’s Well (1917); The Dreaming of the Bones (1919); The Only Jealousy of Emer (1919); Calvary (1920); The Player Queen (1922); Sophocles’ King Oedipus (1928); Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus (1934); Wheels and Butterflies [More Plays for Dancers] (1934); The Cat and the Moon (1917); Fighting the Waves (1930); The Words Upon the Window-Pane (1930); The Resurrection (1931); The King of the Great Clock Tower (1934); A Full Moon in March (1935); The Herne’s Egg (1938); Purgatory (1938); The Death of Cuchulain (1939). PART TWO - ADDITIONAL PLAYS: Diarmuid and Grania (1901) Where There Is Nothing (1902). Appendices - A: Yeats’s Notes for the Unpublished Edition de Luxe and the Dublin Edition; Notes to Appendix A; B: Music for the Plays; Notes to Appendix B; Explanatory Notes; Textual Notes. [Note: plays additional to those in the 1934 & 1959 editions: Additional to those in the 1934, 1959 editions: Four Plays for Dancers (1921); Wheels and Butterflies [More Plays for Dancers] (1934); Fighting the Waves (1930). Plays with variant dates in the 1959 Edition: The Cat and the Moon (1926 [1959 sic]), The Words Upon the Window-Pane (1934 [1959 sic]), The King of the Great Clock Tower (1935 [1959 sic]), and Purgatory (1939 [1959 sic]).

Richard J. Finneran, ed., [W. B. Yeats,] The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats [A New Edition] (London: Macmillan 1984), xxv, 747pp.; Do. [2nd edn.] (Palgrave/Macmillan 1991), xxiii, 544pp.

Denis Donoghue, transcribed & ed., Memoirs: Autobiography - A First Draft [&] Journal [by W. B. Yeats] (London: Macmillan 1972), pp.318. CONTENTS: Autobiography [for the years 1887-90, written in 1916-17 [pp.19-135]; Journal [pp.137-280]. Appendices: ‘Occult Notes and Diary, &c.’ [281]; ‘A Symbolic Artist and the Coming of Symbolic Art’ [287]; “Althea Gyles” [287]; ‘William Sharp” [William Sharp by Elizabeth A. Sharp; 288]; ‘Gosse, Lady Gregory and Yeats’ [letters; 280] ‘Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research [1911; 292]; ‘Key Passages from the Journal published in Estrangement and The Death of Synge ’ [2 cols.; 303; Index, 305. Note: ‘In the present volume errors of spelling and punctuation have been silently corrected’; ‘Yeats never mastered those skills’ and ‘readers of of a practical text do not take much pleasure in the editorial sic.’ (Intro., p.15.)

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Yeats’s Critical Writings

Articles & Essays

The Cutting of the Agate (NY: Macmillan 1912) - Contents [with page links to the Gutenberg Project Text Edition - available online]. Thoughts on Lady Gregory’s Translations   I. Cuchulain and his Cycle 1     II. Fion and his Cycle 12 Preface to the First Edition of The Well of the Saints [by J. M. Synge] 36 Discoveries   Prophet, Priest and King 49   Personality and the Intellectual Essences 56   The Musician and the Orator 61   A Guitar Player 63   The Looking-glass 65   The Tree of Life 67   The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales 71   The Play of Modern Manners 73   Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own? 76   Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet 79   Concerning Saints and Artists 85   The Subject Matter of Drama 89   The Two Kinds of Asceticism 94   In the Serpent’s Mouth 97   The Black and the White Arrows 99   His Mistress’s Eyebrows 100   The Tresses of the Hair 103   A Tower on the Apennines 104   The Thinking of the Body 106   Religious Belief Necessary to Religious Art 109   The Holy Places 113 Poetry and Tradition 116 Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations 139 J. M. Synge and the Ireland of his Time 146 The Tragic Theatre 196 John Shawe-Taylor 208 Edmund Spenser 213

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Robert Welch, ed., with intro. & notes, W. B. Yeats / Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth [by W. B. Yeats] (Penguin Books 1993), 458pp.; Acknowledgements [xi]; A Textual and Editorial Note [xiii]; Abbreviations [xvii]; Introduction [xix]. CONTENTS: I: ‘Introduction to Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) [1]; 2: ‘The Irish Fairies’, from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) [8]; 3: ‘Irish Fairies, Ghosts, Witches’, from Lucifer (1889) [19]; 4: ‘Scots and Irish Fairies’, from the Scots Observer (1889) [26]; 5: ‘Irish Wonders’, from the Scots Observer (1889) [30]; 6: ‘Village Ghosts’, from the Scots Observer (1889) [34; 7: ‘Kidnappers’, from the Scots Observer (1889) [39]; 8: ‘Columkille and Rosses, from the Scots Observer (1889) [44]; 9 ‘Bardic Ireland’, from the Scots Observer (1890) [50]; 10: ‘Tales from the Twilight’, from the Scots Observer (1890) [55]; 11: ‘Irish Fairies’, from the Leisure Hour ([Oct.] 1890) [60]; 31: ‘The Thick Skull of the Fortunate’, from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [127]; 32: ‘The Religion of a Sailor’, from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [129]; 33: ‘Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory’, from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [131]; 34: ‘The Eaters of Precious Stones’, from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [132]; 35: ‘The Golden Age’, from The Celtic Twilight (1893) [133]; 36: ‘The Evangel of Folk-Lore, from the Bookman (1894) [135]; 37: ‘The Tribes of Danu’, from the New Review (1897) [138]; 38: ‘The Prisoners of the Gods’, from the Nineteenth Century (1898) [155]; 39: ‘The Broken Gates of Death’, from the Fortnightly Review (1898) [172]; 40: ‘The Celtic Element in Literature’, from Cosmopolis (1898) [189]; 41: ‘Celtic Beliefs about the Soul’, from the Bookman (1898) [201]; 42: ‘The Academic Class and the Agrarian Revolution’, from the Daily Express (1899) [203]; 43: ‘A Note on “The Hosting of the Sidhe”’, from The Wind Among the Reeds (:1899) [208]; 44: ‘A Note On “The Host of the Air”’, from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) [212]; 45: ‘A Note On “The Valley of the Black Pig”’, from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) [216; see attached]; 46: ‘Ireland Bewitched’, from the Contemporary Review (1899) [219]; 47: ‘Dust Hath Closed Helen’s Eye’, from the Dome (1899) [240]; 48: ‘Maeve and Certain Irish Beliefs’, from Beltaine (1900) [147]; 49: ‘Irish Fairy Beliefs’, from the Speaker (1900) [250]; 50: ‘Irish Witch Doctors’, from the Fortnightly Review (1900) [253]; 51: ‘To D. P. Moran’s Leader’ (1900) [275]; 52: ‘The Fool of Faery’, from the Kensington (1901) [280]; 53: ‘By The Roadside’, from An Claidheamh Soluis (1901) [285]; 54: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight’, I’, from The Speaker (1902) [288]; 55: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight, II’, from The Speaker (1902) [291]; 56: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight, III’, from The Speaker (1902) [295]; 57: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight, IV’, from The Speaker (1902) [299]; 58: ‘New Chapters of the Celtic Twilight, V’, from The Speaker (1902) [305]; 59: ‘Away’ [308; prev. publ. in Fortnightly Review,April 1902 - being 6th and final item arising from his folklore collaboration with Lady Gregory]; 60: Preface to Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) [327]; 61: ‘Dreams that have No Moral’, from The Celtic Twilight (1902) [335]; 62: ‘Poets and Dreamers’, from the New Liberal Review (1903) [344]; 63: ‘A Canonical Book’, from the Bookman (1903) [348]; 64: Preface to Lady Gregory’s Gods and Fighting Men (1904) [352]; 65: ‘Witches And Wizards And Irish Folk-Lore’, from Lady Gregory’s Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920) [364]; 66: ‘Compulsory Gaelic: A Dialogue’, from the Irish Statesman (1924) [374]; 67: Introduction to The Midnight Court (1926) [384]; 68: ‘The Great Blasket’, from the Spectator (2 June 1933) [389]; NOTES [392]; GLOSSARY [448]; APPENDIX: Contents of the 1893 and 1902 Editions of The Celtic Twilight [456].

The Poems of William Blake, ed. William Butler Yeats (Bullen 1893; rep. Routledge 1905, &c.)

[ Not to be confused with the Works of William Blake, ed. Edwin Ellis & Yeats, 3 vols. (London: Bernard Quaritch 1893). ]

The Poems of William Blake [The Muses’ Library] (London: Lawrence & Bullen; New York: Scribner 1893), liv., 252pp., 27cm. [Contents: Poetical sketches; Songs of innocence; Songs of experience; Ideas of good and evil; The prophetic books; Prose fragments; Wade 219; O’Shea 208 - NLI copy from WBY’s library has his errata and a long note in ink - see note]. Do. [rep. as] Mr William Butler Yeats introduces the Poetical Works of William Blake (London: George Routledge & Sons. Ltd. 1905), xlix, 277pp., ill. [port.], 8°. Do. [rep.] [Books That Marked Epochs, No. 2] (London: George Routledge; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1910), xlix, 277pp.. Do. [Modern Library] (NY: Boni & Liveright [1920]), xli, 278pp. [17 cm]. Do. [rep. of 1920 Edn.] (NY: The Modern Library 192[?]),xli, [1], 278pp., 17cm. Do. [Muses’ Library] (Harvard UP 1969). Do. [Muses’ Library] ([London: 1972). Do., as Collected Poems [rep. edn.], with a new introduction by Tom Paulin (London: Routledge 2002), xliii, 256pp. [21 cm].

See citation in A Blake Bibliography by G. E. Bentley & Martin K. Nurmi (Minnesota 1964) - as infra.

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The Works of William Blake (London: Bernard Quaritch 1893): annotations in Yeats’s hand dated 1900 in the flyleaf give information about the preparation of the book and the parts played by Yeats and Ellis (“The writing of this book ...”). A PS to this reads: ‘The Works is full of misprints. There is a good deal here & there in the biography etc with which I am not in agreement. I think that some of my own constructive symbolism is put with too much confidence. It is mainly right [this] part[s] should be used rather as an interpretative hypothesis than as a certainty. The circulation of the Zoas, which seems to me unlike anything in traditional symbolism, is the chief cause of uncertainty, but most that I have written on the subject is at least part of Blake’s plan. There is also uncertainty about the personages who are mentioned by him too seldom to make one know them perfectly; [v] him [v.] their characters. / WBY May. 1900 [n.d.]

Note: Yeats wrote a marginal note in his own library copy of The Works of William Blake, 3 vols. (Bernard Quaritch 1893), which he edited with Ellis: ‘my authority for Blake’s Irish extraction was R. Carter Blake who claims to be descended from a branch of that family that settled in Malaga and entered the arms [?] trade there. WBY’. The note has been transcribed by Edward O’Shea in his Descriptive Catalogue of W. B. Yeats’s Library (Garland 1985). The library is held in the National Library of Ireland. (See Edward O’Shea, A Descriptive Catalog of the Library of W. B. Yeats, Garland 1985, p.34; item 220 [Wade 218].)

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