Abbreviations
References to Yeats’s work are abbreviated and parenthetically inserted. To avoid the clutter of citing page numbers for poems, all are referenced by title. However, to enable readers to date the versions quoted, the list in the Index of poems includes the page numbers in The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach New York: Macmillan, 1957. For the convenience of most readers, I’ve cited the one-volume Allan Wade Letters rather than the definitive but less accessible multi-volume Oxford edition. In all quotes the italics are mine, unless otherwise stated.
Au |
Autobiographies. London: Macmillan, 1955. |
E&I |
Essays and Introductions. London and New York: Macmillan, 1961. |
Ex |
Explorations. New York: Macmillan, 1963. |
G-YL |
The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893–1938: Always Your Friend, ed. Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares. London: Norton, 1992. |
L |
The Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. A. Wade. New York: Macmillan, 1955. |
LDW |
Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, intro. Kathleen Raine. New York and London: Oxford UP, 1964. |
LTSM |
W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901–1937, ed. Ursula Bridge. New York: Oxford UP, 1953. |
Mem |
Memoirs, ed. Denis Donoghue. New York: Macmillan, 1972. |
Myth |
Mythologies. London and New York: Macmillan, 1959. |
VP |
The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach New York: Macmillan, 1957. |
Vis |
(1925) A Vision. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1925 |
Vis |
A Vision (1937 edition). London: Macmillan, 1962. |