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W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
1865–1939
A giant of modern poetry, he blended Irish myth, politics, mysticism, and personal longing into language that still feels vivid and musical today. His work ranges from dreamy early lyrics to the sharper, darker poems of his later years, including some of the most quoted lines in English.
42 Audiobooks
The tower
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Wind Among the Reeds
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Celtic Twilight
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Poems
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Secret Rose
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Countess Cathleen
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 4 (of 8)
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Land of Heart's Desire
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Ideas of Good and Evil
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Per Amica Silentia Lunae
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8)
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
In The Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Michael Robartes and the dancer
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8)
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of William Butler Yeats
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Green Helmet and Other Poems
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Responsibilities, and other poems
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Trembling of the Veil
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays
by Lady Gregory, W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Hour Glass
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Reveries over Childhood and Youth
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Two plays for dancers
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 3 (of 8)
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 7 (of 8)
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8)
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Rosa Alchemica
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 2 (of 8)
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Cutting of an Agate
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Stories of Red Hanrahan
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 6 (of 8)
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Mosada: A dramatic poem
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Discoveries: A Volume of Essays
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Synge and the Ireland of His Time
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
John Sherman; and, Dhoya
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Seven Poems and a Fragment
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Land of Heart's Desire
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Where There is Nothing
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Four Years
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
About the author
Born in Dublin in 1865, he became one of the central figures of 20th-century literature and helped shape the Irish Literary Revival. He worked not only as a poet but also as a playwright, and he was closely involved in the founding of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre.
His writing changed dramatically over time. Early poems often drew on folklore, legend, and romantic symbolism, while later work became leaner, tougher, and more direct, without losing its intensity. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He also served as a senator of the Irish Free State, showing how closely his life and art were tied to the cultural and political life of Ireland. He died in 1939, but poems such as The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, and Among School Children have kept his voice alive for generations of readers.