Literature Ireland

William Butler Yeats

One of the key figures in 20th century literature, William Butler Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, a founder member of the Irish National Theatre and later director of the Abbey Theatre. His early years were spent between Dublin, London, and Sligo and his first works display his fascination with Irish legends and the occult. A first volume of verse, Mosada, A Dramatic Poem, was published in 1886, followed by The Wanderings of Oisin in 1889. That same year, Yeats met the actress and Irish nationalist Maud Gonne who would inspire his work for many years. In 1922, the Irish Free State awarded him a seat in the Senate. The following year, Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature, yet his perhaps most celebrated collection, The Tower, was published in 1928. Yeats had defined the intellectual and symbolic background to this and later works in A Vision (1925). Two more collections of poetry followed, The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), and the posthumously published Last Poems and Plays (1940). W. B. Yeats died in Southern France in January 1939. He was reinterred in Sligo, 'under bare Ben Bulben's head', in 1948.

Translated books

Autobiographies

Stories of Red Hanrahan, The Secret Rose, and Rosa Alchemica

The Complete Lyrical Poems of W.B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats: Versuri

Essays

The Celtic Twilight

A Vision

W. B. Yeats: The Collected Plays

The Winding Stair and Other Poems

William Butler Yeats: Selected Poems

The Resurrection and Other Plays

William Butler Yeats: The Wanderings of Oisin, Crossways, The Rose, The Wind among the Reeds

William Butler Yeats: The Old Age of Queen Maeve, Baile and Aillinn, In the Seven Woods, The Shadowy Waters, The Green Helmet, Responsibilities

William Butler Yeats: Collected Poems

The Tower

William Butler Yeats: Ten Plays: At the Hawk's Well, The Green Helmet, On Baile's Strand, The Only Jealousy of Emer, The Hour-glass, The Unicorn from the Stars, The Player Queen, The Dreaming of the B

Last Poems

William Butler Yeats: Nobel Acceptance Speech, Poems Crossways, The Rose, The Wind Among the Reeds, In the Seven Woods, The Green Helmet, Responsiblities, The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and