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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Born 1865 · Died 1939

Irish poet, dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."

Quotes

  • “Poets are the policemen of language; they are always arresting those old reprobates the words.”
    Letter to Ellen O'Leary 3 February 1889
  • “All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born.”
    Easter, 1916
  • “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
    Part v
  • “This melancholy London. I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”
    Letter to Katharine Tynan 25 August 1888

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Books by William Butler Yeats in order

Books by William Butler Yeats in the order they were published, from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) to The Lake Isle of Innisfree (2017).

  1. 1Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish PeasantryFairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry1888
  2. 2Irish Fairy and Folk TalesIrish Fairy and Folk Tales1890
  3. 3Irish Fairy TalesIrish Fairy Tales1892
  4. 4The Celtic TwilightThe Celtic Twilight1893
  5. 5The Land of Heart's DesireThe Land of Heart's Desire1894
  6. 6Poems: Second SeriesPoems: Second Series1895
  7. 7The Secret RoseThe Secret Rose1897
  8. 8Wind Among the ReedsWind Among the Reeds1899
  9. 9The Hour-glassThe Hour-glass1903
  10. 10ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities1914
  11. 11The Wild Swans at CooleThe Wild Swans at Coole1917
  12. 12A VisionA Vision1925
  13. 13AutobiographiesAutobiographies1926
  14. 14The TowerThe Tower1928
  15. 15Leda and the SwanLeda and the Swan1935
  16. 16The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. YeatsThe Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats1957
  17. 17MythologiesMythologies1959
  18. 18William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats1959
  19. 19YeatsYeats1968
  20. 20Fairy Folk Tales of IrelandFairy Folk Tales of Ireland1973
  21. 21Fairy Tales of IrelandFairy Tales of Ireland1990
  22. 22The Collected Poems of W. B. YeatsThe Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats1994
  23. 23Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and ProseYeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose2000
  24. 24The Lake Isle of InnisfreeThe Lake Isle of Innisfree2017

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