W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and politician. One of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature in the English-speaking canon, he was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years, he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.

Works

Discoveries: A Volume of Essays

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Four Years

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Ideas of Good and Evil

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In The Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age

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John Sherman; and, Dhoya

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Michael Robartes and the dancer

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Mosada: A dramatic poem

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Per Amica Silentia Lunae

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Responsibilities, and other poems

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Reveries over Childhood and Youth

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Rosa Alchemica

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Seven Poems and a Fragment

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Stories of Red Hanrahan

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Synge and the Ireland of His Time

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The Celtic Twilight

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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8) / Poems Lyrical and Narrative

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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 2 (of 8) / The King's Threshold. On Baile's Strand. Deirdre. Shadowy Waters

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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 3 (of 8) / The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The Unicorn from the Stars

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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 4 (of 8) / The Hour-glass. Cathleen ni Houlihan. The Golden Helmet. The Irish Dramatic Movement

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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8) / The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan

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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 6 (of 8) / Ideas of Good and Evil

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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 7 (of 8) / The Secret Rose. Rosa Alchemica. The Tables of the Law. The Adoration of the Magi. John Sherman and Dhoya

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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8) / Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography

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The Countess Cathleen

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The Cutting of an Agate

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The Green Helmet and Other Poems

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The Hour Glass

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The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand

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The Land of Heart's Desire

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The Secret Rose

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The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi

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The tower

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The Trembling of the Veil

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The Wild Swans at Coole

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The Wind Among the Reeds

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Two plays for dancers

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Where There is Nothing / Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre

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About the author

W. B. Yeats

Language of works

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Born/died

1865 — 1939

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