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W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
1865–1939
A towering voice in modern poetry, this Irish writer blended folklore, politics, mysticism, and personal longing into work that still feels vivid today. He helped shape Ireland’s literary culture while writing poems and plays that became classics.
41 Audiobooks
The Trembling of the Veil
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Synge and the Ireland of His Time
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Cutting of an Agate
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Mosada: A dramatic poem
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Countess Cathleen
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Green Helmet and Other Poems
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Secret Rose
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Per Amica Silentia Lunae
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Four Years
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats, Lady Gregory
John Sherman; and, Dhoya
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Celtic Twilight
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8) Poems Lyrical and Narrative
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Hour Glass
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Poems
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Land of Heart's Desire
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of William Butler Yeats
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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
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) Ideas of Good and Evil
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
The Wind Among the Reeds
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Ideas of Good and Evil
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
In The Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The tower
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Responsibilities, and other poems
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. 5 (of 8) The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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
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) The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The Unicorn from the Stars
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Reveries over Childhood and Youth
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Michael Robartes and the dancer
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Discoveries: A Volume of Essays
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
About the author
Born in Dublin in 1865, Yeats grew into one of the most important poets in English of the 20th century. His early work drew deeply on Irish legend, folklore, and the landscapes of Sligo, while his lifelong interest in mysticism and the occult gave his writing its distinctive dreamlike power.
He was a central figure in the Irish Literary Revival and, with Lady Gregory and others, helped found the theatre that became the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Alongside his plays and prose, he kept transforming as a poet, moving from lush, romantic language toward the sharper, more stripped-back style heard in many of his best-known later poems.
In 1923, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Yeats died in 1939 in France, but his work has never gone out of reach: intimate and musical, public and visionary, it continues to speak to readers far beyond Ireland.