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

Yeats at Work, by Curtis B. Bradford (Carbondale and Edwardsville: 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, Deirdre Toomey; Volume III, 1901–1904, and Volume IV, 1905–1907, ed. 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 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. George Mills Harper and Walter Kelly Hood (London: Macmillan, 1978).

CW1

The Poems, second edition (New York: Scribner, 1997), ed. Richard J. Finneran and replacing The Poems: Revised (New York: Macmillan, 1989; London: Macmillan, 1989), PR, which replaced The Poems: A New Edition (New York: Macmillan, 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, ed. David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark (New York: Scribner, 2001), volume II of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats).

CW3

Autobiographies, ed. William H. O’Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald, assisted by J. Fraser Cocks III and Gretchen Schwenker (New York: Scribner, 1999), volume III of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats).

CW4

Early Essays, ed. Richard J. Finneran and George Bornstein (New York: Scribner, 2007), volume III of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the 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), volume V of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the 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), volume VI of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats).

CW7

Letters to the New Island ed. George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer (London: Macmillan, 1989), volume VII of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats).

CW8

The Irish Dramatic Movement, ed. Mary FitzGerald and Richard J. Finneran (New York: Scribner, 2003), volume VIII of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats).

CW9

Early Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles and Reviews written between 1886 and 1900, ed. John P. Frayne and Madeleine Marchaterre (New York: Scribner, 2004), volume IX of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the 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), volume X of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats).

CW12

John Sherman and Dhoya, ed. Richard J. Finneran (New York: Macmillan, 1991), volume XII of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats).

CW13

A Vision: The Original 1925 Version, ed. Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper (New York: Scribner 2008), volume XIII of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (formerly The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats).

CWVP1–8

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, 8 vols. (Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1908).

DC

Druid Craft: The Writing of The Shadowy Waters, Manuscripts of W. B. Yeats, transcribed, edited & with a commentary by Michael J. Sidnell, George P. Mayhew, David R. Clark (Amherst: 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.

Ex

Explorations, selected by 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, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1977).

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: 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, edited 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, with an 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 and Margot Ruddock, A Correspondence, ed. Roger McHugh (London and New York: Macmillan, 1970).

LNI

Letters to the New Island by W. B. Yeats, edited and with an introduction by Horace Reynolds (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934).

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, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan; New York: Columbia University Press, 1977).

MBY

Manuscript in the Collection of Michael Butler Yeats.

McGarry

Places Names in the Writings of W. B. Yeats by James P. McGarry, 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. 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, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan; Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987).

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, Mass.

OBMV

The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1895–1935, selected 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 v.

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, ed. 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: 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: 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 II, 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: Macmillan, 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, second edition, revised and enlarged (London: Macmillan, 1992).

Wade

Allan Wade, A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats, third edition, revised by Russell K. Alspach (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968). Cited by item no. and/or page no. 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 W. B. Yeats, 3 vols. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893).

YA1, 2, etc.

Yeats Annual (London: Macmillan, 1982–) cited by no.

YAACTS

Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, ed. Richard J. Finneran (publishers vary, 1983–1999) cited by no.

YGYL

W. B. Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters, ed. Ann Saddlemyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

YL

A Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats’s Library, by Edward O’Shea (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985).

YO

Yeats and the Occult, ed. George Mills Harper (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; Niagara Falls, NY: Maclean-Hunter Press, 1975).

YP

Yeats’s Poems, edited & 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), gen. ed. George Mills Harper, assisted by Mary Jane Harper, Vol. 1: The Automatic Script: 5 November 1917–18 June 1918, ed. Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry; Vol. 2: The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918–29 March 1920, ed. Steve L. Adams, Barbara J. Frieling and Sandra L. Sprayberry; Vol. 3: Sleep and Dream Notebooks, Vision Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File, ed. Robert Anthony Martinich and Margaret Mills Harper; Vol. 4: “The Discoveries of Michael Robartes” Version B [“The Great Wheel” and “The Twenty-Eight Embodiments”], ed. George Mills Harper and MargaretMills Harper assisted by Richard W. Stoops, Jr.