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W. B. YEATS (1865 - 1939)

ASSOCIATIONS

• Yeats Society of New York

• Yeats Society Sligo

COURSES

• Bucknell University: W. B. Yeats (Rickard)

• California State University: William Butler Yeats (Wedin)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Poetry, Drama, and Prose.  Ed. James Pethica.  New YorK; Norton, 2000.
  • Explorations.  New York: Macmillan, 1962.
  • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961.
• Selected Individual Works:

  • Mythologies.  1959.

  • Autobiography.  New York: Macmillan, 1953.
  • "A General Introduction for My Work."  1937. 
    • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961.  509-526.
  • A Vision.  New York: Macmillan, 1937
  • Per Amica Silentia Lunae.  London: Macmillan, 1918. 
    • "Anima Hominis."  17-50. 
      • The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature.  Ed. Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson,Jr.  New York: OUP, 1965.  756-765.
    • "Anima Mundi." 
  • "Poetry and Tradition."  1907. 
    • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961.  246-260.
  • "Ireland and the Arts."  1901. 
    • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961.  203-210.
  • "Magic."  1901. 
    • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961. 28-52.
  • "What is 'Popular Poetry'?"  1901. 
    • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961. 3-12.
  • "The Symbolism of Poetry."  1900. 
    • Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: a Reader.  Ed. David Lodge. 
    • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961.  153-164. 
  • "The Autumn of the Body."  1898.  
    • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961.  189-194.
  • "The Celtic Element in Literature."  1897.  
    • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961.  173-188.
  • "William Blake and the Imagination."  1897. 
    • Essays and Introductions.  London: Macmillan, 1961. 111-115.

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Bartleby.Com: William Butler Yeats Collection

  • California State University: Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

• Selected Individual Works:

  • "The Symbolism of Poetry" (1900):

    • About.Com Version

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Cowell, Raymond, ed.  Critics on Yeats.  1979.
  • Finneran, R. J., ed.  Yeats: an Annual of Critical and Textual Studies.  6 vols.  1983-88.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Adams, Hazard.  "Stylistic Arrangements of Experience."  Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1983.  287-324.
  • Bloom, Harold.  Yeats.  Oxford: OUP, 1970.
  • Byrd, T. L., Jr.  The Early Poetry of W. B. Yeats.  1978.
  • Donoghue, Denis.  William Butler Yeats.  1971.  Rpt. 1989.
  • Ellmann, Richard.  The Identity of Yeats.  2d ed.  1964.  Rpt. 1985.
  • Ellmann, Richard.  Eminent Domain.  1967.
  • Ellmann, Richard.  Yeats: the Man and the Masks.  Rev. Ed. 1978.
  • Engelberg, Edward.  The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats' Aesthetic.  2nd exp. ed. 1988.
  • Harper, G. M.  The Making of Yeats' A Vision.  2 vols.  1987.
  • Jeffares, A. Norman.  A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats.  1984.
  • Jordan, Carmel.  A Terrible Beauty: the Easter Rebellion and Yeats's "Great Tapestry".  1987.
  • MacLiammóér, Micheáì, and Boland, Evan.  W. B. Yeats.  London: Thames and Hudson, 1986.
  • Nathan, L. E.  The Tragic Drama of William Butler Yeats.  1965.
  • Unterecker, John.  A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats.  1959.  Rpt. 1971.
  • Vendler, Helen.  Yeats' Vision and the Later Plays.  1963.
  • Webster, Brenda S.  Yeats: a Psychoanalytic Study.  1973.

On-Line:

• Books and Writers: W. B. Yeats

• Gibson, Matthew: Magical Romanticism: Yeats' Absorption of Romantic Writers into Fin de Siecle Movements

• Hishikawa, Eiichi: W. B. Yeats

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: William Butler Yeats

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