This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised. Posthumous editions are also included if they are the first publication of a new or significantly revised work. Years are linked to corresponding "year in poetry" articles for works of poetry, and "year in literature" articles for other works.
1890 – "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", poem first published in the National Observer, 13 December; poem included in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892[2]
1892 – The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, includes "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (see 1890, above)[2] (Lyrics from this book appear in Yeats' collected editions in a section titled "The Rose" [1893] but Yeats never published a book titled "The Rose")
1893 – The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction[2]
1895 – Poems, verse and drama; the first edition of his collected poems. Containing: The Countess Cathleen, The Land of Heart's Desire, The Wanderings of Usheen and the poetry collections The Rose, Crossways[2]
1895 – Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, an anthology[2]
1897 – The Tables of the Law. The Adoration of the Magi, privately printed; The Tables of the Law first published in The Savoy, November 1896; a regular edition of this book appeared in 1904[2]
1904 – The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi, a privately printed edition appeared in 1897[2]
1905 – Stories of Red Hanrahan, published in 1905 by the Dun Emer Press, although the book states the year of publication was 1904; contains stories from The Secret Rose (1897) rewritten with Lady Gregory; another edition was published in 1927[2]
1937 – A Vision B, nonfiction, a much revised edition of the original, which appeared in 1925; reissued with minor changes in 1956, and with further changes in 1962[2]
1937 – Broadsides: New Irish & English Songs, edited by Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley[8]
1938 – Autobiography, includes Reveries over Childhood and Youth (published in 1914), The Trembling of the Veil (1922), Dramatis Personae (1935), The Death of Synge (1928), and other pieces; see also Autobiographies (1926)[2]
^Harper, Margaret Mills, book review of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, vol. 12: John Sherman and Dhoya, in Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1993, retrieved January 18, 2009