W. B. (William Butler) Yeats Audiobooks

About the author

Born in Dublin in 1865, W. B. Yeats grew up between Ireland and England, but Sligo remained one of the deepest imaginative sources in his writing. He became a leading figure in the Irish Literary Revival, drawing on folklore, legend, and Irish history while shaping a poetic voice that changed dramatically over the course of his life.

Yeats was not only a poet but also a dramatist and cultural organizer. He helped found the Irish Literary Theatre, which developed into the Abbey Theatre, and his work played a major part in defining modern Irish literature. In 1923, he became the first Irish writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

What makes Yeats especially fascinating is the range of his work: early poems full of dreamlike beauty, later poems that are leaner, stranger, and more forceful, and a lifelong interest in mysticism and symbolic systems. He also served in the Irish Senate in the 1920s, showing how closely his artistic life was tied to the public life of a changing Ireland.

W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

41 Audiobooks

The Trembling of the Veil

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

Synge and the Ireland of His Time

Mosada: A dramatic poem

The Countess Cathleen

The Cutting of an Agate

The Green Helmet and Other Poems

The Secret Rose

The Wild Swans at Coole

Per Amica Silentia Lunae

Four Years

The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays

John Sherman; and, Dhoya

The Celtic Twilight

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

The Hour Glass

Poems

The Land of Heart's Desire

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of William Butler Yeats

Stories of Red Hanrahan

The Land of Heart's Desire

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

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

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

Seven Poems and a Fragment

Ideas of Good and Evil

The Wind Among the Reeds

Rosa Alchemica

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

The tower

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

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

Two plays for dancers

Responsibilities, and other poems

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

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

Reveries over Childhood and Youth

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

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

Discoveries: A Volume of Essays

Michael Robartes and the dancer

About the author