1908.
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, MCMVIII.
Eight volumes. Demy 8vo. Quarter vellum back with grey linen sides. With portraits by John S. Sargent, R.A., Signor Mancini, Charles Shannon and J. B. Yeats.
VOLUME I.
CONTENTS.
The Wind Among the Reeds.
The Old Age of Queen Maeve.
Baile and Aillinn.
In the Seven Woods.
Ballads and Lyrics.
The Rose.
The Wanderings of Oisin.
Notes.
A few poems have been moved from The Wind Among the Reeds to Ballads and Lyrics and The Rose. Two poems are added to In the Seven Woods. These are:—
The Hollow Wood. Originally appeared in The Twisting of the Rope in Stories of Red Hanrahan, 1904.
O do not love too long. Originally appeared in The Acorn, October, 1905.
VOLUME II.
The King’s Threshold.
On Baile’s Strand.
Deirdre.
The Shadowy Waters.
Appendix I: Acting Version of ‘The Shadowy Waters.’
Appendix II: A different version of Deirdre’s entrance.
Appendix III: The Legendary and Mythological Foundation of the Plays.
Appendix IV: The Dates and Places of Performance of Plays.
VOLUME III.
The Countess Cathleen.
The Land of Heart’s Desire.
The Unicorn from the Stars. By Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats.
Appendix: The Countess Cathleen.
Notes.
Music by Florence Farr and others.
VOLUME IV.
The Hour-Glass.
Cathleen ni Houlihan.
The Golden Helmet.
The Irish Dramatic Movement. Under this title are printed the greater part of Mr. Yeats’s contributions to Samhain, 1901-1906, and to The Arrow, 1906-1907, and two essays, An Irish National Theatre and The Theatre, the Pulpit, and the Newspapers, which originally appeared in The United Irishman, October 10 and 17, 1903.
Appendix I: ‘The Hour-Glass.’
Appendix II: ‘Cathleen ni Hoolihan.’
Appendix III: ‘The Golden Helmet.’
Appendix IV: Dates and Places of the First Performance of New Plays produced by the National Theatre Society and its predecessors.
VOLUME V.
The Celtic Twilight.
Stories of Red Hanrahan.
VOLUME VI.
Ideas of Good and Evil.
VOLUME VII.
The Secret Rose.
[The Red Hanrahan stories are here omitted from The Secret Rose as the later versions of them appear in Volume V. Two other stories which appeared in the volume of 1897 are also omitted.]
Rosa Alchemica.
The Tables of the Law.
The Adoration of the Magi.
John Sherman. With a new Preface.
Dhoya.
VOLUME VIII.
Discoveries.
Edmund Spenser. Originally appeared as the introduction to Poems of Spenser, 1906.
Poetry and Tradition.
Modern Irish Poetry. Originally appeared as the introduction to A Book of Irish Verse, 1895.
Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne. Originally appeared as the preface to Cuchulain of Muirthemne, 1902.
Lady Gregory’s Gods and Fighting Men. Originally appeared as the preface to Gods and Fighting Men, 1904.
Mr. Synge and his Plays. Originally appeared as the introduction to The Well of the Saints, 1905.
Lionel Johnson. For original appearance see A Treasury of Irish Poetry, 1900.
The Pathway. Originally appeared, under the title The Way of Wisdom, in The Speaker, April 14, 1900.