Abbreviations
Au |
Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1955). |
AVA |
A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon certain Doctrines attributed to Kusta Ben Luka (London: privately printed for subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1925). See also CVA. |
AVB |
A Vision (London: Macmillan, 1962). |
Berg |
Books and Manuscripts, The Berg Collection, New York Public Library (Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations). |
BIV1, 2 |
A Book of Irish Verse (London: Methuen, 1895; 1900). |
BL Add. MS |
Additional Manuscript, The British Library, London (followed by number). |
BL Macmillan |
Later papers from the Macmillan Archive, British Library, London. |
Bodley |
Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
Bradford |
Curtis B. Bradford, Yeats at Work (Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965). |
Brotherton |
Manuscript, The Brotherton Collection, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. |
CH |
W. B. Yeats: The Critical Heritage, ed. A. Norman Jeffares (London: Henley; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977). |
CL1, 2, 3, 4 |
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume I, 1865-1895, ed. John Kelly and Eric Domville; Volume II, 1896-1900, ed. Warwick Gould, John Kelly and Deirdre Toomey; Volume III, 1901-1904, and Volume IV, 1905-1907, eds. John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, 1997, 1994, 2005). |
CL InteLex |
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, gen. ed. John Kelly (Oxford: Oxford University Press (InteLex Electronic Edition)) 2002. Letters cited by Accession number. |
CM |
W. B. Yeats: A Census of the Manuscripts, by Conrad A. Balliet, with the assistance of Christine Mawhinney (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990). |
CVA |
A Critical Edition of Yeats’s A Vision (1925), ed. by George Mills Harper and Walter Kelly Hood (London: Macmillan, 1978). |
CW1 |
The Poems: Second Edition (New York: Scribner, 1997), ed. by Richard J. Finneran and replacing The Poems: Revised (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989; London: Macmillan, 1989), PR, which replaced The Poems: A New Edition (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983; London: Macmillan London Ltd., 1984), PNE, as the first volume of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats). CW2 The Plays, eds. David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark (New York: Scribner, 2001), vol. II of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CW3 |
Autobiographies, eds. William H. O’Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald, assisted by J. Fraser Cocks III and Gretchen Schwenker (New York: Scribner, 1999), vol. III of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CW5 |
Later Essays, ed. William H. O’Donnell, with assistance from Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994), vol. V of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CW6 |
Prefaces and Introductions: Uncollected Prefaces and Introductions by Yeats to Works by other Authors and to Anthologies edited by Yeats, ed. William H. O’Donnell (London: Macmillan, 1988), vol. VI of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CW7 |
Letters to the New Island eds. George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer (London: Macmillan, 1989), vol. VII of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CW8 |
The Irish Dramatic Movement, eds. Mary FitzGerald and Richard J. Finneran (New York: Scribner, 2003), vol. VIII of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CW9 |
Early Articles and Reviewss: Uncollected Articles and Reviews Written between 1886 and 1900, eds. John P. Frayne and Madeleine Marchaterre (New York: Scribner, 2004), vol. IX of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CW10 |
Later Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts written after 1900, ed. Colton Johnson (New York: Scribner, 2000), vol. X of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CW12 |
John Sherman AND Dhoya, ed. Richard J. Finneran (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991), vol. XII of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CW13 |
A Vision: The Original 1925 Version, ed. Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper (New York: Scribner 2008), vol. XIII of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. |
CWVP1-8 |
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats (Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1908, 8 vols.). |
DC |
Druid Craft: The Writing of The Shadowy Waters, Manuscripts of W. B. Yeats, transcribed, edited and with a commentary by Michael J. Sidnell, George P. Mayhew and David R. Clark (Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971). |
Diaries |
Lady Gregory’s Diaries 1892-1902, ed. James Pethica (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1996). |
E&I |
Essays and Introductions (London and New York: Macmillan, 1961). |
Emory |
Books and Manuscripts in the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta. |
Ex |
Explorations, sel. Mrs W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1962; New York: Macmillan, 1963). |
FFTIP |
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Edited and selected by W. B. Yeats (London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1888). |
G-YL |
The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938: Always Your Friend, ed. Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares (London: Hutchinson, 1992). |
Harvard |
Manuscript, Houghton Library, Harvard University. |
HRHRC |
Books and Manuscripts, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. |
I&R |
W. B. Yeats: Interviews and Recollections, ed. E. H. Mikhail (London: Macmillan, 1977), 2 vols. |
IFT |
Irish Fairy Tales edited with an introduction by W. B. Yeats (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892). |
J |
W. B. Yeats: A Classified Bibliography of Criticism, second edition, revised and enlarged, by K. P. S. Jochum (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990). Item nos. or page no. preceded by ‘p.’. |
JBYL |
Letters to his Son W. B. Yeats and Others 1869-1922, by J. B. Yeats, edited with a Memoir by Joseph Hone and a Preface by Oliver Elton (London: Faber and Faber, 1944). |
Kansas |
Manuscripts in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, Lawrence. |
L |
The Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. Allan Wade (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954; New York: Macmillan, 1955). |
LBP |
Letters from Bedford Park: A Selection from the Correspondence (1890-1901) of John Butler Yeats, ed. with an introduction and notes by William M. Murphy (Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1972). |
LDW |
Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, introduction by Kathleen Raine (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1964). |
Life 1 |
W. B. Yeats: A Life, I: The Apprentice Mage, by R. F. Foster (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). |
Life 2 |
W. B. Yeats: A Life, II: The Arch-Poet, by R. F. Foster (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). |
Lilly |
Manuscript in the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. |
LJQ |
The Letters of John Quinn to W. B. Yeats, ed. Alan B. Himber, with the assistance of George Mills Harper (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983). |
LMR |
‘Ah, Sweet Dancer’: W. B. Yeats, Margot Ruddock, A Correspondence, ed. Roger McHugh (London and New York: Macmillan, 1970). |
LNI |
Letters to the New Island: A New Edition (CEW 7), ed. George Bornstein and Hugh Whitemeyer (London: Macmillan, 1989). |
LRB |
The Correspondence of Robert Bridges and W. B. Yeats, ed. Richard J. Finneran (London: Macmillan, 1977; Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978). |
LTWBY1, 2 |
Letters to W. B. Yeats, ed. Richard J. Finneran, George Mills Harper and William M. Murphy, with the assistance of Alan B. Himber (London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), 2 vols. |
MBY |
Manuscript in the Collection of Michael Butler Yeats. |
McGarry |
James P. McGarry, Places Names in the Writings of W. B. Yeats, edited with additional material by Edward Malins and a Preface by Kathleen Raine (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd., 1976). |
Mem |
Memoirs: Autobiography-First Draft: Journal, transcribed and edited by Denis Donoghue (London: Macmillan, 1972; New York: Macmillan, 1973). |
Myth |
Mythologies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1959). |
Myth 2005 |
Mythologies, ed. by Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). |
MYV1, 2 |
The Making of Yeats’s ‘A Vision’: A Study of the Automatic Script, by George Mills Harper (London: Macmillan; Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987), 2 vols. |
NLI |
Manuscripts in the National Library of Ireland, Dublin. |
NLS |
Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. |
NYPL |
Manuscripts in the New York Public Library. |
Norwood |
Manuscripts, Norwood Historical Society, Day House, Norwood, MA. |
OBMV |
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1895-1935, chosen by W. B. Yeats (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936). |
Princeton |
Manuscript in the Scribner Archive, Firestone Library, Princeton University. |
Quinn Cat. |
Complete Catalogue of the Library of John Quinn sold by auction in five parts [with printed prices] (New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1924), 2 vols. |
SB |
The Speckled Bird by William Butler Yeats: an Autobiographical Novel With Variant Versions: New Edition, incorporating recently discovered manuscripts, edited and annotated by William H. O’Donnell (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). |
SQ |
A Servant of the Queen: Reminiscences, by Maud Gonne MacBride, eds. A. Norman Jeffares and Anna MacBride White (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1994). |
SS |
The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats, ed. Donald R. Pearce (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1960; London: Faber and Faber, 1961). |
TB |
Theatre Business: The Correspondence of the First Abbey Theatre Directors: William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge, ed. Ann Saddlemyer (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982). |
TSMC |
W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901-1937, ed. Ursula Bridge (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Oxford University Press, 1953). |
UP1 |
Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, Vol. I, ed. John P. Frayne (London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University Press, 1970). |
UP2 |
Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, Vol. 2, ed. John P. Frayne and Colton Johnson (London: Macmillan, 1975; New York: Columbia University Press, 1976). |
VBWI |
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland collected and arranged by Lady Gregory: With two Essays and Notes by W. B. Yeats with a foreword by Elizabeth Coxhead (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd.; New York: Oxford University Press, 1970). |
VP |
The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957). Cited from the corrected third printing of 1966. |
VPl |
The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats, ed. Russell K. Alspach, assisted by Catherine C. Alspach (London and New York: Macmillan, 1966). Cited from the corrected second printing of 1966. |
VSR |
The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition, ed. Warwick Gould, Phillip L. Marcus and Michael J. Sidnell (London: Macmillan, 1992). Second ed., revised and enlarged. |
Wade |
Allan Wade, A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats, third ed., revised by Russell K. Alspach (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968). Item nos. and/or page nos. preceded by ‘p.’. |
WWB1, 2, 3 |
The Works of William Blake Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, edited with lithographs of the illustrated ‘Prophetic Books’, and a memoir and interpretation by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, 3 vols. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893). |
YA |
Yeats Annual (London: Macmillan, 1982-) cited by no. |
YAACTS |
Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, ed. Richard J. Finneran (publishers vary, 1983-99) cited by no. |
YGYL |
W. B. Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters, ed. Ann Saddlemyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). |
YL |
Edward O’Shea, A Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats’s Library (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985). |
YO |
Yeats and the Occult, ed. George Mills Harper (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; Niagara Falls, New York: Maclean-Hunter Press, 1975). |
YP |
Yeats’s Poems, ed. and annotated by A. Norman Jeffares, with an appendix by Warwick Gould (London: Macmillan, 1989). Cited from the second, revised edition of 1991. |
YT |
Yeats and the Theatre, ed. Robert O’Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; Niagara Falls, New York: Maclean-Hunter Press, 1975). |
YVP1, 2, 3, 4 |
Yeats’s Vision Papers (London: Macmillan, 1992; Palgrave 2001), George Mills Harper (general editor) assisted by Mary Jane Harper, vol. I: The Automatic Script: 5 November 1917-18 June 1918, eds. Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry; vol. II: The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918-29 March 1920, eds. Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry; vol. III: Sleep and Dream Notebooks, Vision Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File, eds. Robert Anthony Martinich and Margaret Mills Harper; vol. IV: ‘The Discoveries of Michael Robartes’ Version B [‘The Great Wheel’ and ‘The Twenty-Eight Embodiments’], eds. George Mills Harper and Margaret Mills Harper assisted by Richard W. Stoops, Jr. |