William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats |
William Butler Yeats (born 1865, died 1939), a key figure in the Celtic literary revival at the turn of the 20th Century, also moved in occult circles and knew many of the key figures of the Golden Dawn. He served as a Senator of the Irish free state and won the Nobel prize for literature in 1923.
Note on copyrights: all of Yeats' books and other writings are copyrighted in the UK and EU because he died in 1939, since their current copyright term is death+70 years. Therefore they will be covered by copyright in the UK and EU until 2009. However, all of his writings prior to January 1st, 1923 are in the public domain in the United States by the terms of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act; since is hosted in the US we abide by this criteria. We have been careful only to use pre-1923 editions to produce these etexts. Please take this into consideration if you plan to republish or post these texts outside the US.
Later Poems
by W. B. Yeats [1922]
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
Edited and Selected by W. B. Yeats [1888]
Celtic Twilight
by W. B. Yeats [1902 edition]
A collection of essays by Yeats on supernatural Celtic themes.
In The Seven Woods
by W. B. Yeats [1903]
A short book of poetry and a play by Yeats on Irish mythological themes.
Other Yeats Material at
Preface
to Cuchulain of Muirthemne
by Lady Augusta Gregory [1902]
Preface
to Gods and Fighting Men
by Lady Augusta Gregory [1904]
Introduction
to Gitanjali
by Rabindranath Tagore [1913]
Notes
to Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
by Lady Augusta Gregory [1920]
Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk-Lore
in Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
by Lady Augusta Gregory [1920]
Swedenborg, Mediums and the Desolate Places
in Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
by Lady Augusta Gregory [1920]