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Born in June 13, 1865 / Died in January 28, 1939 / Ireland / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • Adams, Hazard, The Book of Yeats' Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition, University of Michigan Press, 1995.
  • Albright, Daniel, Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Alldritt, Keith, W.B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu, J. Murray, 1997.
  • Allison, Jonathan, Yeats' Political Identities, University of Michigan Press, 1996.
  • Archibald, Douglas, Yeats, Syracuse University Press, 1983.
  • Blake, James J., Yeats, "The Wanderings of Oisin," and Irish Gaelic Literature, P. Lang, 1996.
  • Bloom, Harold, Yeats, Oxford University Press, 1970.
  • Bradley, Anthony, William Butler Yeats, Ungar, 1979.
  • Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, Volume 5: Late Victorian and Edwardian Writers, 1890-1914, Gale, 1991.
  • Conner, Lester I., A Yeats Dictionary: Persons and Places in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats, Syracuse University Press, 1998.
  • Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler, Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry, Syracuse University Press, 1996.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale, Volume 10: Modern British Dramatists, 1940-1945, 1982, Volume 19: British Poets, 1840-1914, 1983, Volume 98: Modern British Essayists, First Series, Gale, 1990.
  • Domville, Eric, A Concordance to the Plays of W. B. Yeats, two volumes, Cornell University Press, 1972.
  • Donoghue, Denis, William Butler Yeats, Viking, 1971.
  • Ellis, Sylvia C., The Plays of W. B. Yeats: Yeats and the Dancer, St. Martin's Press, 1994.
  • Ellmann, Richard, The Identity of Yeats, 2nd edition, Faber, 1964.
  • Ellmann, Richard, Yeats: The Man and the Masks, 2nd edition, Faber, 1961.
  • Emig, Rainer, Modernism in Poetry: Motivation, Structures, and Limits, Longman, 1996.
  • Fleming, Deborah, A Man Who Does Not Exist: The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge, University of Michigan Press, 1995.
  • Foster, R. F., W.B. Yeats: A Life, Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Gorski, William T., Yeats and Alchemy, State University of New York Press, 1996.
  • Haswell, Janis Tedesco, Pressed against Divinity: W.B. Yeats's Feminine Masks, Northern Illinois University Press, 1997.
  • Heaney, Seamus, Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978, Faber, 1980.
  • Henn, Thomas R., The Lonely Tower, 2nd edition, Methuen, 1965.
  • Holdeman, David, Much Labouring: The Texts and Authors of Yeats's First Modernist Books, University of Michigan Press, 1997.
  • Hone, Joseph W., W. B. Yeats: 1865-1939, 2nd edition, Macmillan, 1965.
  • Howes, Marjorie Elizabeth, Yeats' Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Jeffares, A. Norman, W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet, 2nd edition, Barnes & Noble, 1966.
  • Jochum, K. P. S., W. B. Yeats: A Classified Bibliography of Criticism, Including Additions to Allan Wade's Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats and a Section on the Irish Literary and Dramatic Revival, University of Illinois Press, 1978.
  • Larrissy, Edward, Yeats the Poet: The Measures of Difference, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.
  • Larrissy, Edward, ed., W.B. Yeats, Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Macrae, Alasdair D. F., W. B. Yeats: A Literary Life, St. Martin's, 1995.
  • Malins, Edward Greenway, and John Arthur Purkis, A Preface to Yeats, Longman, 1994.
  • McCready, Sam, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 1997.
  • Murphy, William Michael, Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives, Syracuse University Press, 1995.
  • Nohrnberg, Peter C. L., The Book the Poet Makes: Collection and Re-Collection in W. B. Yeats' "The Tower" and Robert Lowell's "Life Studies", Harvard University, 1995.
  • Parrish, Steven M., A Concordance to the Poems of W. B. Yeats, Cornell University Press, 1963.
  • Peterson, Richard, William Butler Yeats, Twayne, 1982.
  • Pierce, David, Yeats' Worlds: Ireland, England, and the Poetic Imagination, Yale University Press, 1995.
  • Purdy, Dwight H., Biblical Echo and Allusion in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Poetics and the Art of God, Associated University Presses, 1994.
  • Ransom, John Crowe, editor, The Kenyon Critics: Studies in Modern Literature from "The Kenyon Review," World Publishing, 1951.
  • Rosenthal, M. L., Running to Paradise: Yeats' Poetic Art, Oxford University Press, 1994.
  • Scribner, The Irish Dramatic Movement, Scribner (New York, NY), 2003.
  • Sidnell, Michael J., Yeats' Poetry and Poetics, St. Martin's, 1996.
  • Stanley, Michael, Famous Dubliners: W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carson, Wolfhound Press (Dublin, Ireland), 1996.
  • Toomey, Deirdre, ed., Yeats and Women, St. Martin's Press, 1997.
  • Tratner, Michael, Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, Stanford University Press, 1995.
  • Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 1, 1978, Volume 11, 1983, Volume 18, 1985, Volume 31, 1989.
  • Unterecker, John Eugene, A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats, Syracuse University Press, 1996.
  • Vendler, Helen, Yeats's "Vision" and the Later Plays, Harvard University Press, 1963.
  • Watanabe, Nancy Ann, Beloved Image: The Drama of W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939, University Press of America, 1995.
  • Watson, George J., Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce, and O'Casey, Catholic University of America Press, 1994.
  • Yeats Annual, Macmillan (London), beginning 1982.
  • Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Cornell University Press, beginning 1983.
  • Yeats, William Butler, The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, Macmillan, 1950.
  • Yeats, William Butler, Memoirs: Autobiography, edited by Denis Donaghue, Macmillan, 1972.
  • Yeats, William Butler, The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, Consisting of "Reveries Over Childhood and Youth," "The Trembling of the Veil," and "Dramatis Personae," Macmillan, 1987.

PERIODICALS

  • Booklist, August, 1995, p. 1925.
  • Commentary, November, 1995, p. 76.
  • New York Review of Books, April 21, 1994, p. 49.
  • Poetry, October-November, 1995, p. 94.
  • Publishers Weekly, November 13, 1995, p. 53.
  • School Library Journal, April, 1996, p. 90.
  • Times (London), January 28, 1989; May 6, 1989.
  • Tri-Quarterly, winter, 1965.