| Selected works |
| Mosada : a Dramatic Poem. – Dublin : Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1886 |
| The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. – London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889 |
| The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics. – London : Unwin, 1892 |
| The Celtic Twilight. – London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. – Rev. and enl. ed. 1902 |
| The Land of Heart's Desire. – London : Unwin, 1894 |
| Poems. – London : Unwin, 1895 |
| The Secret Rose. – London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1897 |
| The Wind among the Reeds. – London : Elkin Mathews, 1899 |
| The Shadowy Waters. – London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1900 |
| Cathleen ni Houlihan. – London : Bullen, 1902 |
| Where There Is Nothing. – New York : John Lane, 1902 |
| Ideas of Good and Evil. – London : Bullen, 1903 |
| In the Seven Woods : Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age. – Dundrum : Dun Emer Press, 1903 |
| The Hour Glass : a Morality. – London : Heinemann, 1903 |
| The Hour Glass and Other Plays. – London : Macmillan, 1904 |
| The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand. – London : Bullen, 1904 |
| Stories of Red Hanrahan. – Dundrum : Dun Emer Press, 1905 |
| Poems, 1899-1905. – Dublin : Maunsel, 1906 |
| The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats. – London : Macmillan, 1906-1907. – Rev. ed. 1912 |
| Deirdre. – Dublin : Maunsel, 1907 |
| Discoveries : a Volume of Essays. – Dundrum : Dun Emer Press, 1907 |
| The Golden Helmet. – New York : John Quinn, 1908 |
| The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. – Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. – 8 vol. |
| The Green Helmet and Other Poems. – Dundrum : Cuala Press, 1910. – Enl. ed. 1912 |
| Synge and the Ireland of His Time. – Dundrum : Cuala Press, 1911 |
| The Cutting of an Agate. – New York : Macmillan, 1912 |
| Poems Written in Discouragement. – Dumdrum : Cuala Press, 1913 |
| Responsibilities : Poem and a Play. – Dundrum : Cuala Press, 1914. |
| Reveries Over Childhood and Youth. – Dundrum : Cuala Press, 1915 |
| The Wild Swans at Coole : Other Verses and a Play in Verse. – Dundrum : Cuala Press, 1917 |
| Per Amica Silentia Lunae. – London : Macmillan, 1918 |
| Michael Robartes and the Dancer. – Dundrum : Cuala Press, [1921]. – Expanded ed. 1994 |
| Four Plays for Dancers. – London : Macmillan, 1921 |
| Four Years. – Dundrum : Cuala Press, 1921 |
| The Trembling of the Veil. – London : Laurie, 1922 |
| Later Poems. – London : Macmillan, 1922 |
| The Player Queen. – London : Macmillan, 1922 |
| Plays and Controversies. – London : Macmillan, 1923 |
| Essays. – London : Macmillan, 1924 |
| The Cat and the Moon. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1924 |
| The Bounty of Sweden : a Meditation, and a Lecture, Delivered Before The Royal Swedish Academy, and Certain Notes. – Cuala Press, 1925 |
| Early Poems and Stories. – London : Macmillan, 1925 |
| A Vision. – London : Laurie, 1925. – Rev. ed. 1937 |
| Estrangement. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1926 |
| Autobiographies : Reveries Over Childhood and Youth. – London : Macmillan, 1926 |
| October Blast. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1927 |
| The Tower. – London : Macmillan, 1928 |
| The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1928 |
| A Packet for Ezra Pound. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1929 |
| The Winding Stair. – New York : Fountain Press, 1929. – Enl. ed. 1933 |
| Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1931 |
| Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1932 |
| The Collected Poems. – New York : Macmillan, 1933 |
| Letters to the New Island / edited with an introduction by Horace Reynolds. – Harvard Univ. Press, 1934 |
| The Words upon the Window Pane. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1934 |
| Wheels and Butterflies. – London : Macmillan, 1934 |
| The Collected Plays. – London : Macmillan, 1934 |
| The King of the Great Clock Tower. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1934 |
| A Full Moon in March. – London : Macmillan, 1935 |
| Dramatis Personæ. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1935 |
| Poems. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1935 |
| Nine One-Act Plays. – London : Macmillan, 1937 |
| Essays 1931 to 1936. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1937 |
| The Herne's Egg and Other Plays. – New York : Macmillan, 1938 |
| New Poems. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1938 |
| Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. – Oxford Univ. press, 1940 |
| Last Poems and Plays. – London : Macmillan, 1940 |
| If I Were Four-and-Twenty. – Dublin :Cuala Press, 1940 |
| The Poems of W. B. Yeats. – London: Macmillan, 1949. – 2 vol. |
| The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats. – London : Macmillan, 1952 |
| Senate Speeches / edited by Donald R. Pearce. – Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1960 |
| Explorations. – London : Macmillan, 1962 |
| The Speckled Bird / edited by William O'Donnell. – Dublin : Cuala Press, 1974 |
| The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats / edited by John Kelly; associate editor Eric Domville. – Oxford, 1986–. – 4 vol. |
| The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats / Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, general editors. – London & New York : Macmillan, 1989–. – 4 vol. |
| Mythologies / edited by Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey. – Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
| Literature (a selection) |
| Unterecker, John Eugene, A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats. – New York : Noonday Press, 1959 |
| Yeats : a Collection of Critical Essays / ed. by John Unterecker. – Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1963 |
| Parkinson, Thomas, W.B. Yeats : the Later Poetry. – Berkeley : California U.P.; Cambridge U.P, 1964 |
| W. B. Yeats : the Critical Heritage / ed. by A. Norman Jeffares. – London : Routledge & Kegan, 1977 |
| Bramsbäck, Birgit, Folklore and W. B. Yeats : the Function of Folklore Elements in Three Early Plays. – Uppsala Univ., 1984 |
| Jeffares, Alexander Norman, W.B. Yeats : a New Biography. – London : Hutchinson, 1988 |
| Pierce, David, Yeats's Worlds : Ireland, England and the Poetic Imagination. – New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995 |
| Foster, Robert Fitzroy, W. B. Yeats : a Life. 1, The Apprentice Mage. – Oxford Univ. Press, 1997 |
| Muldoon, Paul, The End of the Poem: "All souls' night" by W.B. Yeats. – Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| Kelly, John S., A W. B. Yeats Chronology. – Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 |
| Foster, Robert Fitzroy, W. B. Yeats : a Life. 2, The Arch-Poet : 1915-1939. – Oxford Univ. Press, 2003 |
| Doggett, Rob, Deep-Rooted Things : Empire and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of William Butler Yeats. – Notre Dame, IN : Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2006 |
| Bell, Vereen M., Yeats and the Logic of Formalism. – Columbia, MO : Univ. of Missouri Press, 2006 |
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