PART I.—ORIGINAL WORKS.
Reading edition
1886.
Mosada. | A Dramatic Poem. | By | W. B. Yeats. | With a | Frontispiece Portrait of the Author | By J. B. Yeats. | Reprinted from the Dublin University Review. | Dublin: | Printed by Sealy, Bryers, and Walker, | 94, 95 and 96 Middle Abbey Street. | 1886.
The whole enclosed in decorated border.
8vo, pp. ii and 12. Light brown paper covers.
There is no title-page, the above description being taken from the front cover.
Mosada originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, June, 1886.
1889.
The Wanderings of Oisin | and other Poems | by | W. B. Yeats | London | Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1, Paternoster Square | 1889
Fcap. 8vo, pp. vi and 156. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
The Wanderings of Oisin.
Time and the Witch Vivien.
The Stolen Child. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, December, 1886.
Girl’s Song.
Ephemera. An Autumn Idyll.
An Indian Song. Originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, December, 1886.
Kanva, the Indian, on God. Originally appeared, under the title From the Book of Kauri the Indian. Section V., On the Nature of God, in The Dublin University Review, October, 1886.
Kanva on Himself.
Jealousy.
Song of the Last Arcadian. Originally appeared, under the title An Epilogue. To ‘The Island of Statues’ and ‘The Seeker,’ in The Dublin University Review, October, 1885.
King Goll. (Third Century.) Originally appeared, under the title King Goll. An Irish Legend, in The Leisure Hour, September, 1887.
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, October, 1886.
The Ballad of Moll Magee.
The Phantom Ship.
A Lover’s Quarrel among the Fairies.
Mosada. Originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, June, 1886.
How Ferencz Renyi kept Silent. Originally appeared in The Boston Pilot.
The Fairy Doctor. Originally appeared in The Irish Fireside, September 10, 1887.
Falling of the Leaves.
Miserrimus. Originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, October, 1886.
The Priest and the Fairy.
The Fairy Pedant. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, March, 1887.
She who dwelt among the Sycamores. A Fancy. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, September, 1887.
On Mr. Nettleship’s Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1885. Originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, April, 1886.
A Legend.
An Old Song re-sung.
Street Dancers. This poem appeared in The Leisure Hour, March, 1890.
To an Isle in the Water.
Quatrains and Aphorisms. The first quatrain originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, February, 1886, under the title Life, and the second and sixth in January, 1886, under the title In a Drawing Room.
The Seeker. Originally appeared, under the title The Seeker. A Dramatic Poem. In Two Scenes, in The Dublin University Review, September, 1885.
Island of Statues. Originally appeared, under the title The Island of Statues. An Arcadian Faery Tale. In Two Acts, in The Dublin University Review, April, May, June and July, 1885.
1891.
Ganconagh | John Sherman | and | Dhoya | London | T. Fisher Unwin | Paternoster Square | M DCCC XCI
24mo, pp. iv and 196. The Pseudonym Library, issued in yellow paper and in light brown linen. No. 10.
CONTENTS.
Ganconagh’s Apology.
John Sherman.
Dhoya.
1892.
The | Countess Kathleen | and various Legends and Lyrics. | By | W. B. Yeats. | “He who tastes a crust of bread | tastes all the stars and all | the heavens.” | Paracelsus ab Hohenheim | Cameo Series | T. Fisher Unwin Paternoster Sq. | London E.C. MDCCCXCII.
12mo, pp. 144. Paper boards with vellum back. Published in the Cameo Series. Frontispiece by J. T. Nettleship.
CONTENTS.
Preface.
The Countess Cathleen.
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time.
Fergus and the Druid. Originally appeared in The National Observer, May 21, 1891.
The Rose of the World. Originally appeared, under the title Rosa Mundi, in The National Observer, January 2, 1892.
The Peace of the Rose. Originally appeared in The National Observer, February 13, 1892.
The Death of Cuchullin. Originally appeared in United Ireland, June 11, 1892.
The White Birds. Originally appeared in The National Observer, May 7, 1892.
Father Gilligan. Originally appeared, under the title Father Gilligan. (A Legend told by the People of Castleisland, Kerry.), in The Scots Observer, July 5, 1890.
Father O’Hart. Appeared, under the title The Priest of Coloony in Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 1888.
When You are Old.
The Sorrow of Love.
The Ballad of the Old Foxhunter. Originally appeared in East and West, November, 1889.
A Fairy Song. Originally appeared in The National Observer, September 12, 1891.
The Pity of Love.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Originally appeared in The National Observer, December 13, 1890.
A Cradle Song. Originally appeared in The Scots Observer, April 19, 1890.
The Man who Dreamed of Fairy Land. Originally appeared, under the title A Man who dreamed of Fairyland, in The National Observer, February 7, 1891.
Dedication of Irish Tales. Originally appeared in Representative Irish Tales, 1890.
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner. Originally appeared in The Scots Observer, November 15, 1890.
When You are Sad.
The Two Trees.
They went forth to the Battle, but they always Fell.
An Epitaph. Originally appeared in The National Observer, December 12, 1891.
Apologia Addressed to Ireland in the Coming Days.
Notes.
1893.
The Celtic Twilight. [in red] | Men and Women, Dhouls and | Faeries. | By | W. B. Yeats. | With a frontispiece by J. B. Yeats. | (Press mark of Lawrence and Bullen) | London: | Lawrence and Bullen, [in red] | 16, Henrietta St., Covent Garden. | 1893.
18mo, pp. xii and 212. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
Poem: Time drops in decay. Originally appeared, under the title The Moods, in The Bookman, Aug., 1893.
The Host. Originally appeared under the title The Faery Host, in The National Observer, October 7, 1893.
This Book.
A Teller of Tales. A part of this essay originally appeared in the introduction to Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 1888.
Belief and Unbelief. A part of this essay originally appeared in an essay Irish Fairies in The Leisure Hour, October, 1890.
A Visionary. Originally appeared, under the title An Irish Visionary, in The National Observer, October 3, 1891.
Village Ghosts. Originally appeared in The Scots Observer, May 11, 1889.
A Knight of the Sheep. Originally appeared, under the title An Impression, in The Speaker, October 21, 1893.
The Sorcerers.
The Last Gleeman. Originally appeared in The National Observer, May 6, 1893.
Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni.
Kidnappers. Originally appeared in The Scots Observer, June 15, 1889.
The Untiring Ones.
The Man and his Boots.
A Coward.
The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries. Originally appeared as part of an essay Irish Fairies in The Leisure Hour, October, 1890.
Drumcliff and Rosses. Originally appeared, under the title Columkille and Rosses, in The Scots Observer, October 5, 1889.
The Thick Skull of the Fortunate.
The Religion of a Sailor.
Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth and Purgatory.
The Eaters of Precious Stones.
Our Lady of the Hills. Originally appeared in The Speaker, November 11, 1893.
The Golden Age.
A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries. Originally appeared under the title Scots and Irish Fairies in The Scots Observer, March 2, 1889.
The Four Winds of Desire.
Into the Twilight. Originally appeared, under the title The Celtic Twilight in The National Observer, July 29, 1893.
1894.
The Land | of Heart’s | Desire | by | W. B. Yeats. | London: T. Fisher | Unwin, Paternoster | Square. MDCCCXCIV
The left-hand side of the title-page bears Aubrey Beardsley’s design for the Avenue Theatre poster, much reduced in size and printed in black.
Sm. 4to, pp. 48. Pink paper cover, bearing reprint of the title-page.
1895.
Poems | By W. B. Yeats | London: Published by T. Fisher Unwin. | No. XI: Paternoster Buildings: MDCCCXCV [The whole forms part of a design by H.G.F.]
Cr. 8vo, pp. xii and 288. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
Preface. (Dated Sligo, March 24, 1895.)
To Some I have talked with by the fire. Originally appeared in The Bookman, May, 1895.
The Wanderings of Usheen.[F]
The Countess Cathleen.[G]
The Land of Heart’s Desire.
The Rose:
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time.[G]
Fergus and the Druid.[G]
The Death of Cuhoolin.[G]
The Rose of the World.[G]
The Rose of Peace.[G]
The Rose of Battle.[G]
A Faery Song.[G]
The Lake Isle of Innisfree.[G]
A Cradle Song.[G]
The Pity of Love.[G]
The Sorrow of Love.[G]
When You are Old.[G]
The White Birds.[G]
A Dream of Death.[G]
A Dream of a Blessed Spirit. Originally appeared, under the title Kathleen, in The National Observer, October 31, 1891.
The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland.[G]
The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists.[G]
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner.[G]
The Ballad of Father Gilligan.[G]
The Two Trees.[G]
To Ireland in the Coming Times.[G]
Crossways:
The Song of the Happy Shepherd.[F]
The Sad Shepherd.[F]
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes.[F] (A re-writing of the first lines of Island of Statues.)
Anashuya and Vijaya.[F]
The Indian upon God.[F]
The Indian to his Love.[F]
The Falling of the Leaves.[F]
Ephemera.[F]
The Madness of King Goll.[F]
The Stolen Child.[F]
To an Isle in the Water.[F]
Down by the Salley Gardens.[F]
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman.[F]
The Ballad of Father O’Hart.[G]
The Ballad of Moll Magee.[F]
The Ballad of the Foxhunter.[G]
Glossary.
1899. Second Edition, revised.
This edition has a portrait of the author by J. B. Yeats facing title-page, the preface is re-written, and the contents re-arranged thus:—
Preface. (Dated February 24, 1899.)
To Some I have talked with by the fire.
The Countess Cathleen.
The Rose.
The Land of Heart’s Desire.
Crossways.
The Wanderings of Oisin.
Glossary.
1901. Third Edition, revised.
This edition has a new preface, dated January, 1901, and the note in the glossary on The Countess Cathleen is much enlarged.
1897.
The Secret Rose: [in red] | By W. B. Yeats, with | Illustrations by J. B. | Yeats. | (Press mark of Lawrence and Bullen) | Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, [in red] | 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, | London, MDCCCXCVII.
Cr. 8vo, pp. xii and 268. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
Dedication to ‘A.E.’
To the Secret Rose. Originally appeared, under the title O’Sullivan Rua to the Secret Rose, in The Savoy, September, 1896.
The Binding of the Hair. Originally appeared in The Savoy, January, 1896.
The Wisdom of the King. Originally appeared, under the title Wisdom, in The New Review, Sept., 1895.
Where there is Nothing, there is God. Originally appeared in The Sketch, October 21, 1896.
The Crucifixion of the Outcast. Originally appeared, under the title A Crucifixion, in The National Observer, March 24, 1894.
Out of the Rose. Originally appeared in The National Observer, May 27, 1893.
The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows. Originally appeared in The National Observer, Aug. 5, 1893.
The Heart of the Spring. Originally appeared in The National Observer, April 15, 1893.
Of Costello the Proud, of Oona the Daughter of Dermott and of the Bitter Tongue. Originally appeared, under the title Costello the Proud, Oona MacDermott and the Bitter Tongue, in The Pageant, 1896.
The Book of the Great Dhoul and Hanrahan the Red. Originally appeared, under the title The Devil’s Book, in The National Observer, November 26, 1892.
The Twisting of the Rope and Hanrahan the Red. Originally appeared, under the title The Twisting of the Rope, in The National Observer, December 24, 1892.
Kathleen the Daughter of Hoolihan and Hanrahan the Red. Originally appeared, under the title Kathleen-ny-Houlihan, in The National Observer, Aug. 4, 1894.
The Curse of Hanrahan the Red. Originally appeared, under the title The Curse of O’Sullivan the Red upon Old Age, in The National Observer, September 29, 1894.
The Vision of Hanrahan the Red. Originally appeared, under the title The Vision of O’Sullivan the Red, in The New Review, April, 1896.
The Death of Hanrahan the Red. Originally appeared, under the title The Death of O’Sullivan the Red, in The New Review, December, 1896.
The Rose of Shadow. Originally appeared under the title Those Who Live in the Storm, in The Speaker, July 21, 1894.
The Old Men of the Twilight. Originally appeared, under the title St. Patrick and the Pedants, in The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement, December 1, 1895.
Rosa Alchemica. Originally appeared in The Savoy, April, 1896.
The Tables of the Law. | The Adoration of the Magi. | By W. B. Yeats. | (Press mark of Lawrence and Bullen) | Privately Printed | MDCCCXCVII.
Cr. 8vo, pp. 48. Cloth. Portrait by J. B. Yeats facing title-page.
CONTENTS.
The Tables of the Law. Originally appeared in The Savoy, November, 1896.
The Adoration of the Magi.
One hundred and ten copies printed.
1904. First published edition:—
The Tables of the Law | and | The Adoration of the Magi | by | W. B. Yeats | London | Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street | 1904
Royal 16mo, pp. 60 and iv of advertisements. Paper covers. No. 17 of The Vigo Cabinet Series.
CONTENTS.
Prefatory Note.
The Tables of the Law.
The Adoration of the Magi.
Also an Edition de Luxe, limited.
1899.
The Wind | Among the Reeds | By | W. B. Yeats | London: Elkin Mathews | Vigo Street, W., 1899.
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 108. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
The Hosting of the Sidhe. For original appearance see under title The Host, in The Celtic Twilight, 1893.
The Everlasting Voices. Originally appeared, under the title Everlasting Voices, in The New Review, January, 1896.
The Moods. For original appearance see The Celtic Twilight, 1893.
Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart. Originally appeared, under the title The Rose in my Heart, in The National Observer, November 12, 1892.
The Host of the Air. Originally appeared, under the title The Stolen Bride, in The Bookman, Nov., 1893.
Breasal the Fisherman. Originally appeared, under the title Bressel the Fisherman, in The Cornish Magazine, December, 1898.
A Cradle Song. Originally appeared as the first of Two Poems concerning Peasant Visionaries, in The Savoy, April, 1896.
Into the Twilight. For original appearance see The Celtic Twilight, 1893.
The Song of Wandering Aengus.
The Song of the Old Mother. Originally appeared in The Bookman, April, 1894.
The Fiddler of Dooney. Originally appeared in The Bookman, December, 1892.
The Heart of the Woman. Originally appeared in the story The Rose of Shadow, in The Secret Rose.
Aedh Laments the Loss of Love. Originally appeared as the second of Aodh to Dectora. Three Songs, in The Dome, May, 1898.
Mongan Laments the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved. Originally appeared, under the title The Desire of Man and of Woman, in The Dome, June, 1897.
Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace. Originally appeared, under the title The Shadowy Horses, in The Savoy, January, 1896.
Hanrahan reproves the Curlew. Originally appeared, under the title Windlestraws. 1. O’Sullivan Rua to the Curlew, in The Savoy, November, 1896.
Michael Robartes remembers forgotten Beauty. Originally appeared, under the title O’Sullivan Rua to Mary Lavell, in The Savoy, July, 1896.
A Poet to his Beloved. Originally appeared, under the title O’Sullivan the Red to Mary Lavell, in The Senate, March, 1896.
Aedh gives his Beloved certain Rhymes. Originally appeared in the story The Binding of the Hair. See The Secret Rose, 1897.
To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear. Originally appeared, under the title Windlestraws. 11. Out of the Old Days, in The Savoy, November, 1896.
The Cap and Bells. Originally appeared, under the title Cap and Bell, in The National Observer, March 17, 1894.
The Valley of the Black Pig. Originally appeared, as the second of Two Poems concerning Peasant Visionaries, in The Savoy, April, 1896.
Michael Robartes asks Forgiveness because of his many Moods. Originally appeared, under the title The Twilight of Forgiveness, in The Saturday Review, November 2, 1895.
Aedh tells of a Valley full of Lovers. Originally appeared under the title The Valley of Lovers, in The Saturday Review, January 9, 1897.
Aedh tells of the perfect Beauty. Originally appeared, under the title O’Sullivan the Red to Mary Lavell, in The Senate, March, 1896.
Aedh hears the Cry of the Sedge. Originally appeared as the first of Aodh to Dectora. Three Songs, in The Dome, May, 1898.
Aedh thinks of those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved. Originally appeared as the third of Aodh to Dectora. Three Songs, in The Dome, May, 1898.
The Blessed. Originally appeared in The Yellow Book, Volume XIII, April, 1897.
The Secret Rose. For original appearance see under The Secret Rose, 1897.
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.
CONTENTS.
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.
CONTENTS.
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.
CONTENTS.
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.