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 fromThe Wind Among the ReedstoBallads and LyricsandThe Rose. Two poems are added toIn the Seven Woods. These are:—The Hollow Wood.Originally appeared inThe Twisting of the RopeinStories of Red Hanrahan, 1904.O do not love too long.Originally appeared inThe 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.Musicby 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 toSamhain, 1901-1906, and toThe Arrow, 1906-1907, and two essays,An Irish National TheatreandThe Theatre, the Pulpit, and the Newspapers, which originally appeared inThe 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.[TheRed Hanrahanstories are here omitted fromThe Secret Roseas 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 toPoems of Spenser, 1906.Poetry and Tradition.Modern Irish Poetry.Originally appeared as the introduction toA Book of Irish Verse, 1895.Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne.Originally appeared as the preface toCuchulain of Muirthemne, 1902.Lady Gregory’s Gods and Fighting Men.Originally appeared as the preface toGods and Fighting Men, 1904.Mr. Synge and his Plays.Originally appeared as the introduction toThe Well of the Saints, 1905.Lionel Johnson.For original appearance seeA Treasury of Irish Poetry, 1900.The Pathway.Originally appeared, under the titleThe Way of Wisdom, inThe Speaker, April 14, 1900.
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.
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.
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 fromThe Wind Among the ReedstoBallads and LyricsandThe Rose. Two poems are added toIn the Seven Woods. These are:—
The Hollow Wood.Originally appeared inThe Twisting of the RopeinStories of Red Hanrahan, 1904.O do not love too long.Originally appeared inThe Acorn, October, 1905.
The Hollow Wood.Originally appeared inThe Twisting of the RopeinStories of Red Hanrahan, 1904.
O do not love too long.Originally appeared inThe Acorn, October, 1905.
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.
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.
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.Musicby Florence Farr and others.
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.
Musicby Florence Farr and others.
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 toSamhain, 1901-1906, and toThe Arrow, 1906-1907, and two essays,An Irish National TheatreandThe Theatre, the Pulpit, and the Newspapers, which originally appeared inThe 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.
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 toSamhain, 1901-1906, and toThe Arrow, 1906-1907, and two essays,An Irish National TheatreandThe Theatre, the Pulpit, and the Newspapers, which originally appeared inThe 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.
The Celtic Twilight.Stories of Red Hanrahan.
The Celtic Twilight.
Stories of Red Hanrahan.
Ideas of Good and Evil.
Ideas of Good and Evil.
The Secret Rose.
The Secret Rose.
[TheRed Hanrahanstories are here omitted fromThe Secret Roseas 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.
Rosa Alchemica.
The Tables of the Law.
The Adoration of the Magi.
John Sherman.With a new Preface.
Dhoya.
Discoveries.Edmund Spenser.Originally appeared as the introduction toPoems of Spenser, 1906.Poetry and Tradition.Modern Irish Poetry.Originally appeared as the introduction toA Book of Irish Verse, 1895.Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne.Originally appeared as the preface toCuchulain of Muirthemne, 1902.Lady Gregory’s Gods and Fighting Men.Originally appeared as the preface toGods and Fighting Men, 1904.Mr. Synge and his Plays.Originally appeared as the introduction toThe Well of the Saints, 1905.Lionel Johnson.For original appearance seeA Treasury of Irish Poetry, 1900.The Pathway.Originally appeared, under the titleThe Way of Wisdom, inThe Speaker, April 14, 1900.
Discoveries.
Edmund Spenser.Originally appeared as the introduction toPoems of Spenser, 1906.
Poetry and Tradition.
Modern Irish Poetry.Originally appeared as the introduction toA Book of Irish Verse, 1895.
Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne.Originally appeared as the preface toCuchulain of Muirthemne, 1902.
Lady Gregory’s Gods and Fighting Men.Originally appeared as the preface toGods and Fighting Men, 1904.
Mr. Synge and his Plays.Originally appeared as the introduction toThe Well of the Saints, 1905.
Lionel Johnson.For original appearance seeA Treasury of Irish Poetry, 1900.
The Pathway.Originally appeared, under the titleThe Way of Wisdom, inThe Speaker, April 14, 1900.