The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Volume 8 of 8. Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography

The Old Men of the Twilight. Originally appeared, under the title St. Patrick and the Pedants, in The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement, December 1, 1895.

Rosa Alchemica. Originally appeared in The Savoy, April, 1896.

The Tables of the Law. | The Adoration of the Magi. | By W. B. Yeats. | (Press mark of Lawrence and Bullen) | Privately Printed | MDCCCXCVII.

Cr. 8vo, pp. 48. Cloth. Portrait by J. B. Yeats facing title-page.

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The Tables of the Law. Originally appeared in The Savoy, November, 1896.

The Adoration of the Magi.

One hundred and ten copies printed.

1904. First published edition: —

The Tables of the Law | and | The Adoration of the Magi | by | W. B. Yeats | London | Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street | 1904

Royal 16mo, pp. 60 and iv of advertisements. Paper covers. No. 17 of The Vigo Cabinet Series.

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Prefatory Note.

The Tables of the Law.

The Adoration of the Magi.

Also an Edition de Luxe, limited.

1899

The Wind | Among the Reeds | By | W. B. Yeats | London: Elkin Mathews | Vigo Street, W., 1899.

Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 108. ClothCONTENTS

The Hosting of the Sidhe. For original appearance see under title The Host, in The Celtic Twilight, 1893.

The Everlasting Voices. Originally appeared, under the title Everlasting Voices, in The New Review, January, 1896.

The Moods. For original appearance see The Celtic Twilight, 1893.

Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart. Originally appeared, under the title The Rose in my Heart, in The National Observer, November 12, 1892.

The Host of the Air. Originally appeared, under the title The Stolen Bride, in The Bookman, Nov., 1893.

Breasal the Fisherman. Originally appeared, under the title Bressel the Fisherman, in The Cornish Magazine, December, 1898.

A Cradle Song. Originally appeared as the first of Two Poems concerning Peasant Visionaries, in The Savoy, April, 1896.

Into the Twilight. For original appearance see The Celtic Twilight, 1893.

The Song of Wandering Aengus.

The Song of the Old Mother. Originally appeared in The Bookman, April, 1894.

The Fiddler of Dooney. Originally appeared in The Bookman, December, 1892.

The Heart of the Woman. Originally appeared in the story The Rose of Shadow, in The Secret Rose.

Aedh Laments the Loss of Love. Originally appeared as the second of Aodh to Dectora. Three Songs, in The Dome, May, 1898.

Mongan Laments the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved. Originally appeared, under the title The Desire of Man and of Woman, in The Dome, June, 1897.

Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace. Originally appeared, under the title The Shadowy Horses, in The Savoy, January, 1896.

Hanrahan reproves the Curlew. Originally appeared, under the title Windlestraws. 1. O’Sullivan Rua to the Curlew, in The Savoy, November, 1896.

Michael Robartes remembers forgotten Beauty. Originally appeared, under the title O’Sullivan Rua to Mary Lavell, in The Savoy, July, 1896.

A Poet to his Beloved. Originally appeared, under the title O’Sullivan the Red to Mary Lavell, in The Senate, March, 1896.

Aedh gives his Beloved certain Rhymes. Originally appeared in the story The Binding of the Hair. See The Secret Rose, 1897.

To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear. Originally appeared, under the title Windlestraws. 11. Out of the Old Days, in The Savoy, November, 1896.

The Cap and Bells. Originally appeared, under the title Cap and Bell, in The National Observer, March 17, 1894.

The Valley of the Black Pig. Originally appeared, as the second of Two Poems concerning Peasant Visionaries, in The Savoy, April, 1896.

Michael Robartes asks Forgiveness because of his many Moods. Originally appeared, under the title The Twilight of Forgiveness, in The Saturday Review, November 2, 1895.

Aedh tells of a Valley full of Lovers. Originally appeared under the title The Valley of Lovers, in The Saturday Review, January 9, 1897.

Aedh tells of the perfect Beauty. Originally appeared, under the title O’Sullivan the Red to Mary Lavell, in The Senate, March, 1896.

Aedh hears the Cry of the Sedge. Originally appeared as the first of Aodh to Dectora. Three Songs, in The Dome, May, 1898.

Aedh thinks of those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved. Originally appeared as the third of Aodh to Dectora. Three Songs, in The Dome, May, 1898.

The Blessed. Originally appeared in The Yellow Book, Volume XIII, April, 1897.

The Secret Rose. For original appearance see under The Secret Rose, 1897.

Hanrahan laments because of his Wanderings. Originally appeared, under the title O’Sullivan the Red upon his Wanderings, in The New Review, August, 1897.

The Travail of Passion. Originally appeared in The Savoy, January, 1896.

The Poet pleads with his Friend for old Friends. Originally appeared, under the title Song, in The Saturday Review, July 24, 1897.

Hanrahan Speaks to the Lovers of his Songs in coming Days. Originally appeared in the story The Vision of Hanrahan the Red. See The Secret Rose, 1897.

Aedh pleads with the Elemental Powers. Originally appeared, under the title Aodh Pleads with the Elemental Powers, in The Dome, December, 1898.

Aedh wishes his Beloved were dead.

Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.

Mongan thinks of his past Greatness. Originally appeared, under the title Song of Mongan, in The Dome, October, 1898.

Notes.

1900

The Shadowy Waters | By W. B. Yeats | London: Hodder and | Stoughton | 27 Paternoster Row: MCM

Cr. 4to, pp. 60. ClothCONTENTS

I walked among the seven woods of Coole. Originally appeared, under the title Introduction to a Dramatic Poem, in The Speaker, December 1, 1900.

The Shadowy Waters. Originally appeared in The North American Review, May, 1900.

1902

The Celtic Twilight [in red] | By W. B. Yeats | A. H. Bullen, [in red] 18 Cecil Court | St. Martin’s Lane, London, W.C. | MCMII

Cr. 8vo, pp. x and 236. Cloth

Portrait by J. B. Yeats facing title-page.

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Poem: Time drops in decay.

The Hosting of the Sidhe.

This Book. I. 1893. II. 1902.

A Teller of Tales.

Belief and Unbelief.

Mortal Help. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.

A Visionary. (With a new footnote.)

Village Ghosts.

‘Dust hath closed Helen’s Eye.’ I. 1900. II. 1902. Part I originally appeared in The Dome, October, 1899.

A Knight of the Sheep.

An Enduring Heart. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 26, 1902.

The Sorcerers. (With a new footnote.)

The Devil. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.

Happy and Unhappy Theologians. Originally appeared in The Speaker, February 15, 1902.

The Last Gleeman.

Regina, Regina Pigmeorum Veni. (With a new footnote.)

‘And Fair, Fierce Women.’ Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.

Enchanted Woods. Originally appeared in The Speaker, January 18, 1902.

Miraculous Creatures. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 26, 1902.

Aristotle of the Books. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.

The Swine of the Gods. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.

A Voice. Originally appeared in The Speaker, April 19, 1902.

Kidnappers. (With a new footnote.)

The Untiring Ones. (With a new footnote.)

Earth, Fire and Water. Originally appeared in The Speaker, March 15, 1902.

The Old Town. Originally appeared in The Speaker, March 15, 1902.

The Man and his Boots.

A Coward.

The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries.

Drumcliffe and Rosses.

The Thick Skull of the Fortunate. I. 1893. II. 1902.

The Religion of a Sailor.

Concerning the nearness together of Heaven, Earth and Purgatory. 1892 and 1902.

The Eaters of Precious Stones.

Our Lady of the Hills.

The Golden Age.

A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries.

War. Originally appeared in The Speaker, March 15, 1902.

The Queen and the Fool. Originally appeared, under the title The Fool of Faery, in The Kensington, June, 1901.

The Friends of the People of Faery. Originally appeared as part of an essay, The Tribes of Danu, in The New Review, November, 1897.

Dreams that have no moral.

By the Roadside. Originally appeared in An Claideamh Soluis, July 13, 1901.

Into the Twilight.

Cathleen ni Hoolihan | A Play in One Act and | in Prose by W. B. Yeats | (ornament) [in red] | Printed at the Caradoc | Press Chiswick for A. H. | Bullen 18 Cecil Court Lon | don MDCCCCII

Pott 8vo, pp. vi (blank) and 34. Paper boards with leather back. Printed in red and black.

Cathleen ni Hoolihan originally appeared in Samhain, 1902.

1903

Ideas of Good and [in red] | Evil. [in red] By W. B. Yeats | A. H. Bullen [in red] 47 Great Russell | Street, London, W.C. MCMIII

Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 342. Paper boards with cloth back.

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What is ‘Popular Poetry?’ Originally appeared in The Cornhill Magazine, March, 1902.

Speaking to the Psaltery. Originally appeared in The Monthly Review, May, 1902.

Magic. Originally appeared in The Monthly Review, September, 1901.

The Happiest of the Poets. Originally appeared in The Fortnightly Review, March, 1903.

The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry:

I. His Ruling Ideas. Originally appeared in The Dome, July, 1900.

II. His Ruling Symbols.

At Stratford-on-Avon. Originally appeared in The Speaker, May 11 and 18, 1901.

William Blake and the Imagination. Originally appeared under the title William Blake, in The Academy, June 19, 1897.

William Blake and his Illustrations to the Divine Comedy:

I. His Opinions upon Art. Originally appeared in The Savoy, July, 1896.

II. His Opinions upon Dante. Originally appeared in The Savoy, August, 1896.

III. The Illustrations of Dante. Originally appeared in The Savoy, September, 1896.

Symbolism in Painting. Originally appeared as part of the introduction to A Book of Images, 1898.

The Symbolism of Poetry. Originally appeared in The Dome, April, 1900.

The Theatre. The first section of this essay originally appeared in The Dome, April, 1899. The second originally appeared as part of an essay, The Irish Literary Theatre, 1900, in The Dome, Jan., 1900.

The Celtic Element in Literature. The first section of this essay originally appeared in Cosmopolis, June, 1898.

The Autumn of the Body. For original appearance see The Autumn of the Flesh in Literary Ideals in Ireland.

The Moods. Originally appeared as part of one of a series of articles on Irish National Literature, in The Bookman, August, 1895.

The Body of the Father Christian Rosencrux. Originally appeared as part of one of a series of articles on Irish National Literature, in The Bookman, September, 1895.

The Return of Ulysses. Originally appeared, under the title Mr. Robert Bridges, in The Bookman, June, 1897.

Ireland and the Arts. Originally appeared in The United Irishman, August 31, 1901.

The Galway Plains. Originally appeared, under the title Poets and Dreamers, in The New Liberal Review, March, 1903.

Emotion of Multitude.

Where There is Nothing: | being Volume One of Plays | for an Irish Theatre: by | W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen, 47, Great | Russell Street, W.C. 1903.

Cr. 8vo, pp. xii and 132. Paper boards with cloth back.

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Dedication of Volumes One and Two of Plays for an Irish Theatre.

Where There is Nothing. Originally appeared as a supplement to The United Irishman, Samhain, (Autumn) 1902.

In the Seven Woods: being poems | chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age | By William Butler Yeats | The Dun Emer Press | Dundrum | MCMIII

8vo, pp. viii [unnumbered, i-iv blank] and 68 [the last four blank]. Linen with paper label. The book printed in red and black.

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In the Seven Woods.

The Old Age of Queen Maeve. Originally appeared in The Fortnightly Review, April, 1903.

Baile and Aillinn. Originally appeared in The Monthly Review, July, 1902.

The Arrow.

The Folly of Being Comforted. Originally appeared in The Speaker, January 11, 1902.

The Withering of the Boughs. Originally appeared, under the title Echtge of Streams, in The Speaker, August 25, 1900.

Adam’s Curse. Originally appeared in The Monthly Review, December, 1902.

The Song of Red Hanrahan. Originally appeared, under the title Cathleen, Daughter of Hoolihan, in A Broadsheet, April, 1903.

The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water. Originally appeared in The Pall Mall Magazine, January, 1903.

Under the Moon. Originally appeared in The Speaker, June 15, 1901.

The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and themselves.

The Rider from the North. Originally appeared, under the title The Happy Townland, in The Weekly Critical Review, June, 1903.

On Baile’s Strand, a Play.

Edition limited to 325 copies.

The Hour-Glass | a Morality | By | W. B. Yeats | London | Wm. Heinemann, 21 Bedford St., W.C. | 1903

Demy 8vo, pp. 16 [the last two blank]

The Hour-Glass originally appeared in The North American Review, September, 1903.

A few copies only of this edition were printed, for purposes of copyright.

1904

The Hour-Glass, Cathleen | ni Hoolihan, The Pot of | Broth: Being Volume Two of | Plays for an Irish Theatre: | By W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen, 47, Great | Russell Street, W.C. 1904.

Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 84. Paper boards with cloth back.

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The Hour-Glass: A Morality. For original appearance see above, under date 1903.

Cathleen ni Hoolihan. For original appearance see above, under date 1902.

The Pot of Broth.

Note on the Music.

The King’s Threshold: and | On Baile’s Strand: Being | Volume Three of Plays | for an Irish Theatre: By | W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen, 47, Great | Russell Street, W.C. 1904.

Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 120. Paper boards with cloth back.

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Note.

A Prologue. Originally appeared in The United Irishman, September 9, 1903.

[The Prologue, which was accidentally dropped from later editions, ran thus: —

A PROLOGUE.[H]

An Old Man with a red dressing-gown, red slippers and red night-cap, holding a brass candlestick with a guttering candle in it, comes on from side of stage and goes in front of the dull green curtain.

Old Man. I’ve got to speak the prologue. [He shuffles on a few steps.] My nephew, who is one of the play actors, came to me, and I in my bed, and my prayers said, and the candle put out, and he told me there were so many characters in this new play, that all the company were in it, whether they had been long or short at the business, and that there wasn’t one left to speak the prologue. Wait a bit, there’s a draught here. [He pulls the curtain closer together.] That’s better. And that’s why I am here, and maybe I’m a fool for my pains.

And my nephew said, there are a good many plays to be played for you, some to-night and some on other nights through the winter, and the most of them are simple enough, and tell out their story to the end. But as to the big play you are to see to-night, my nephew taught me to say what the poet had taught him to say about it. [Puts down candlestick and puts right finger on left thumb.] First, he who told the story of Seanchan on King Guaire’s threshold long ago in the old books told it wrongly, for he was a friend of the king, or maybe afraid of the king, and so he put the king in the right. But he that tells the story now, being a poet, has put the poet in the right.

And then [touches other finger] I am to say: Some think it would be a finer tale if Seanchan had died at the end of it, and the king had the guilt at his door, for that might have served the poet’s cause better in the end. But that is not true, for if he that is in the story but a shadow and an image of poetry had not risen up from the death that threatened him, the ending would not have been true and joyful enough to be put into the voices of players and proclaimed in the mouths of trumpets, and poetry would have been badly served.

[He takes up the candlestick again.

And as to what happened Seanchan after, my nephew told me he didn’t know, and the poet didn’t know, and it’s likely there’s nobody that knows. But my nephew thinks he never sat down at the king’s table again, after the way he had been treated, but that he went to some quiet green place in the hills with Fedelm, his sweetheart, where the poor people made much of him because he was wise, and where he made songs and poems, and it’s likely enough he made some of the old songs and the old poems the poor people on the hillsides are saying and singing to-day.

[A trumpet-blast.

Well, it’s time for me to be going. That trumpet means that the curtain is going to rise, and after a while the stage there will be filled up with great ladies and great gentlemen, and poets, and a king with a crown on him, and all of them as high up in themselves with the pride of their youth and their strength and their fine clothes as if there was no such thing in the world as cold in the shoulders, and speckled shins, and the pains in the bones and the stiffness in the joints that make an old man that has the whole load of the world on him ready for his bed.

[He begins to shuffle away, and then stops.

And it would be better for me, that nephew of mine to be thinking less of his play-acting, and to have remembered to boil down the knap-weed with a bit of threepenny sugar, for me to be wetting my throat with now and again through the night, and drinking a sup to ease the pains in my bones.

[He goes out at side of stage.]

The King’s Threshold.

On Baile’s Strand. Originally appeared in In the Seven Woods, 1903.

Stories of Red Hanrahan by | William Butler Yeats | The Dun Emer Press | Dundrum MCMIV

8vo, pp. viii [unnumbered, i-ii blank] and 64 [last seven blank]. Paper boards with linen back, paper labels on front and side. The book printed in red and black; woodcut under Table of Contents on p. viii.

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Red Hanrahan. Originally appeared in The Independent Review, December, 1903.

The Twisting of the Rope.

Hanrahan and Cathleen the daughter of Hoolihan.

Red Hanrahan’s Curse.

Hanrahan’s Vision. Originally appeared, under the title Red Hanrahan’s Vision, in McClure’s Magazine, March, 1905.

The Death of Hanrahan.

Edition limited to 500 copies.

These stories are a re-telling in simpler language of some of the stories in The Secret Rose.

1906

Poems, 1899-1905 [in red] | By W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen | Dublin: Maunsel & Co., | Ltd. | 1906.

Cr. 8vo, pp. xvi and 280. ClothCONTENTS

Preface. [Dated In the Seven Woods, 18 May, 1906.]

I walked among the seven woods of Coole. [I]

The Harp of Aengus. [I]

The Shadowy Waters. [A new version.]

On Baile’s Strand. [A new version.] The Song of the Women (pp. 102-104) originally appeared, under the title Against Witchcraft, in The Shanachie [No. I., Spring, 1906].

In the Seven Woods:

In the Seven Woods. [J]

The Old Age of Queen Maeve. [J]

Baile and Aillinn. [J]

The Arrow. [J]

The Folly of being Comforted. [J]

Old Memory. Originally appeared in Wayfarer’s Love, 1904.

Never Give all the Heart. Originally appeared in McClure’s Magazine, December, 1905.

The Withering of the Boughs.[I]

Adam’s Curse. [I]

The Song of Red Hanrahan. [I]

The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water. [I]

Under the Moon. [I]

The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and themselves. [I]

The Happy Townland. [I]

The Entrance of Deirdre. Two verses of this poem originally appeared, under the title Queen Edaine, in McClure’s Magazine, September, 1905, and the whole poem under the title The Praise of Deirdre, in The Shanachie [No. I., Spring, 1906].

The King’s Threshold. [A new version.]

Notes.

1907

The Shadowy Waters, | By W. B. Yeats. | Acting Version, | As first played at the Abbey Theatre, December 8th, 1906. | A. H. Bullen, | 47 Great Russell Street, London, W.C. | 1907.

Cr. 8vo, pp. 28. Green paper cover

This is a slightly different version from that printed in Poems, 1899-1905.

Deirdre By W. B. Yeats | Being Volume Five of Plays | for an Irish Theatre | London: A. H. Bullen | Dublin: Maunsel & Co., Ltd. | 1907.

Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 48. Paper boards with cloth back.

CONTENTS

Deirdre. For original appearance of the song Why is it, Queen Edain said, see The Entrance of Deirdre, in Poems, 1899-1905.

Note.

Discoveries; A Volume of Essays | By William Butler Yeats. | (Woodcut) | Dun Emer Press | Dundrum | MCMVII

8vo, pp. xvi [unnumbered, i-xi blank] and 56 [the last eleven blank]. Paper boards with linen back. The book printed in red and black.

CONTENTS

Prophet, Priest and King.

Personality and the Intellectual Essences.

The Musician and the Orator.

A Banjo Player.

The Looking-glass.

These five chapters appeared, under the general title My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, September, 1906.

The Tree of Life.

The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales.

The Play of Modern Manners.

Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own?

Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet.

These five chapters appeared, under the general title My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, October, 1906.