Critical Books on W. B. Yeats (to 2002)


Collections of Essays

Allison, Jonathan, ed. Yeats's Political Identities: Selected Essays. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Bloom, Harold, ed. William Butler Yeats. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.

Donoghue, Denis, ed. The Integrity of Yeats. Thomas Davis Lectures . Cork, Ireland: Mercier, 1964.

Donoghue, Denis, and J. R. Multryne, eds. An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats. London: Edward Arnold, 1965.

Finneran, Richard J., ed. Yeats Annual, No. 1. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982.

Finneran, Richard J., ed. Critical Essays on W. B. Yeats. Boston: Hall, 1986.

Fleming, Deborah, ed. W. B. Yeats and Postcolonialism. Locust Hill Literary Studies 29. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 2001.

Gordon, D. J., ed. W. B. Yeats: Images of a Poet. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1961.

Gwynn, Stephen, ed. William Butler Yeats: Essays in Tribute. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1965.

Hall, James, and Martin Steinmann, eds. The Permanence of Yeats. Reprint of the 1950 ed. New York: Collier Books, 1961.

Harper, George Mills, ed. Yeats and the Occult. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975.

Jeffares, A. Norman, ed. W. B. Yeats: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.

Jeffares, A. Norman, ed. Yeats, Sligo, and Ireland: Essays to Mark the 21st Yeats International Summer School. Irish Literary Studies, No. 6 . Gerrards Cross, England: Colin Smythe, 1980.

Jeffares, A. Norman, and K. G. W. Cross, eds. In Excited Reverie: A Centenary Tribute to William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Keane, Patrick J., ed. William Butler Yeats: A Collection of Criticism. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.

Kirschner, Paul, and Alexander Stillmark, eds. Between Time and Eternity: Nine Essays on W. B. Yeats and His Contemporaries Hofmannsthal and Blok. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992.

Maxwell, D. E. S., and Suheil Badi Bushrui, eds. W. B. Yeats, 1865-1965: Centenary Essays on the Art of W. B. Yeats. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 1965.

McGrory, Kathleen, and John Unterecker, eds. Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: New Light on Three Modern Irish Writers. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1976.

Mikhail, E. H., ed. W. B. Yeats: Interviews and Recollections. 2 vol. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1977.

Miller, Liam, ed. Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers, 1965. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1965.

O'Driscoll, Robert, and Lorna Reynolds, eds. Yeats and the 1890s. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971.

O'Driscoll, Robert, and Lorna Reynolds, eds. Yeats and the Theatre. Niagara Falls, NY: Maclean-Hunter Press, 1975.

Orr, Leonard, ed. Yeats and Postmodernism. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991.

Skelton, Robin, and Ann Saddlemyer, eds. The World of W. B. Yeats: Essays in Perspective. Revised as The World of W. B. Yeats (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967). Victoria: Adelphi Bookshop for University of Victoria, 1965.

Stallworthy, Jon, ed. Yeats' Last Poems: A Casebook. London: Macmillan, 1968.

Toomey, Deirdre, ed. Yeats and Women. London: Macmillan, 1997.

Unterecker, John, ed. Yeats: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.


Critical Studies and Biographical Books

Adams, Hazard. Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision. New York: Russell and Russell, 1968.

Adams, Hazard. The Book of Yeats's Poems. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1990.

Adams, Hazard. The Book of Yeats's Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Adams, Joseph. Yeats and the Masks of Syntax. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

Albright, Daniel. The Myth Against Myth: A Study of Yeats's Imagination in Old Age. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Albright, Daniel. Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Archibald, Douglas N. Yeats. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1983.

Armstrong, Gordon S. Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, and Jack Yeats: Images and Words. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1990.

Bachchan, Harbans. W. B. Yeats and Occultism. Delhi: Shri Jainendra Press, 1965.

Balliet, Conrad A., and Christine Mawhinney. W. B. Yeats: A Census of the Manuscripts. [Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, No: 772] . New York: Garland, 1990.

Bayley, John. The Romantic Survival: A Study in Poetic Evolution. London: Constable, 1960.

Berryman, Charles. W. B. Yeats: Design of Opposites. New York: Exposition Press, 1967.

Beum, Robert. The Poetic Art of William Butler Yeats. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1969.

Bloom, Harold. Yeats. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Bloom, Harold. Kabbalah and Criticism. New York: Continuum, 1975.

Bohlmann, Otto. Yeats and Nietzsche: An Exploration of Major Nietzschean Echoes in the Writings of William Butler Yeats. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble Books, 1982.

Bornstein, George. Yeats and Shelley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Bornstein, George. Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Bornstein, George, ed. The Early Poetry, Manuscript Materials: Mosada and The Island of Statues. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Bradford, Curtis. Yeats at Work. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965.

Bradford, Curtis. Yeats's Last Poems Again. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1966.

Bradford, Curtis. W. B. Yeats: The Writing of The Player Queen. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1977.

Bradley, Anthony. William Butler Yeats. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1979.

Bramsback, Birgit. The Interpretation of the Cuchulain Legend in the Work of W. B. Yeats. Reprint of the 1950 edition. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Press, 1970.

Bramsback, Birgit. Folklore and W. B. Yeats: The Function of Folklore Elements in Three Early Plays. Uppsala: Academiae Ubsaliensis, 1984.

Braun, John T. The Apostrophic Gesture. The Hague: Mouton, 1971.

Bushrui, Suheil B. Yeats's Verse-Plays: The Revisions 1900-1910. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965.

Bushrui, Suheil B., and J. M. Munro, eds. Images and Memories: A Pictorial Record of the Life and Work of W. B. Yeats. Beirut: Dar al-Mashreq, 1970.

Byrd, Thomas L. The Early Poetry of W. B. Yeats: The Poetic Quest. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1978.

Christ, Carol T. Victorian and Modern Poetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Clark, David R. W. B. Yeats and the Theatre of Desolate Reality. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1965.

Clark, David R. That Black Day: The Manuscripts of Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgement. Portlaoise, Ireland: Dolmen Press, 1980.

Clark, David R., ed. Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Cornell Yeats. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Clarke, Austin. The Celtic Twilight and the Nineties. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1969.

Cowell, Raymond. W. B. Yeats. London: Evans Bros, 1969.

Cowell, Raymond. Critics on Yeats. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971.

Craig, Cairns. Yeats, Eliot, Pound, and the Politics of Poetry: Richest to the Richest. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.

Cross, K. G. W., and R. T. Dunlop. A Bibliography of Yeats Criticism, 1887-1965. London: Macmillan, 1971.

Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler. Yeats, Ireland, and Fascism. New York: New York University Press, 1981.

Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler, ed. Yeats: Poems, 1919-1935. London: Macmillan, 1984.

Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler. Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Dalsimer, Adele. The Unappeasable Shadow: Shelley's Influence on Yeats. New York: Garland, 1988.

Deane, Sheila. Bardic Style in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Dylan Thomas. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989.

Desai, Rupin W. Yeats's Shakespeare. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1971.

Diggory, Terence. Yeats and American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Domville, Eric, ed. A Concordance to the Plays of W. B. Yeats. 2 vol. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972.

Donoghue, Denis. William Butler Yeats. New York: Viking Press, 1971.

Dorn, Karen. Players and Painted Stage: The Theatre of W. B. Yeats. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1984.

Dyson, A. E. Yeats, Eliot, and R. S. Thomas: Riding the Echo. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1981.

Easton, Malcolm, ed. T. Sturge Moore: Contributions to the Art of the Book and Collaboration with Yeats. Hull, England: University of Hull, 1970.

Eddins, Dwight. Yeats: The Nineteenth Century Matrix. University: University of Alabama Press, 1971.

Ellis-Fermor, Una. The Irish Dramatic Movement. London: Methuen, 1954.

Ellmann, Richard. Yeats: The Man and the Masks. London: Macmillan, 1949.

Ellmann, Richard. The Identity of Yeats. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Ellmann, Richard. Eminent Domain: Yeats Among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot, and Auden. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Ellmann, Richard. Four Dubliners--Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. Washington: Library of Congress, 1986.

Engelberg, Edward. The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats's Aesthetic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964.

Farag, Fahmy. The Opposing Virtues, Two Essays: "Needless Horror or Terrible Beauty: Yeats's Ideas of Hatred, War, and Violence" and "W. B. Yeats and the Politics of A Vision". Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1978.

Faulkner, Peter. William Morris and W. B. Yeats. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1962.

Finneran, Richard J. The Olympian and the Leprechaun: W. B. Yeats and James Stephens. [New Yeats Papers, #16] . Dublin: Dolman Press, 1978.

Finneran, Richard J. Editing Yeats's Poems. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.

Finneran, Richard J. Editing Yeats's Poems: A Reconsideration. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Finneran, Richard J., Alan B. Himber, George Mills Harper, and William M. Murphy, eds. Letters to W. B. Yeats. 2 vol. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

Flannery, James W. W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The Early Abbey Theatre in Theory and Practice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Flannery, Mary. Yeats and Magic: The Earlier Works. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1977.

Fleming, Deborah. `A Man Who Does Not Exist': The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Fletcher, Ian. W. B. Yeats and His Contemporaries. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Foster, R. F. W. B. Yeats: A Life, I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Fraser, G. S. W. B. Yeats. Rev. ed. London: Longmans, Green, 1965.

Frazier, Adrian. Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre. [New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, No: 11] . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Freyer, Grattan. W. B. Yeats and the Anti-Democratic Tradition. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1981.

Friedman, Barton R. Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: The Cuchulain Cycle of W. B. Yeats. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Garab, Arra M. Beyond Byzantium: The Last Phase of Yeats's Career. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1969.

Gardner, Joann. Yeats and the Rhymers' Club: A Nineties' Perspective. [American University Studies IV: English Language and Literature, No: 47] . New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

Gibbon, Monk. The Masterpiece and the Man: Yeats as I Knew Him. London: Hart-Davis, 1959.

Gill, Richard. Happy Rural Seat: The English Country House and the Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Gogarty, Oliver St John. William Butler Yeats: A Memoir. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1963.

Good, Maeve. W. B. Yeats and the Creation of a Tragic Universe. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan, 1987.

Green, Martin. Yeats's Blessings on von Hugel: Essays on Literature and Religion. London: Longmans, 1967.

Grossman, Allen R. Poetic Knowledge in the Early Yeats: A Study of The Wind Among the Reeds. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969.

Harper, George Mills. `Go Back to Where You Belong': Yeats's Return from Exile. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1973.

Harper, George Mills. Yeats's Golden Dawn. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974.

Harper, George Mills. The Mingling of Heaven and Earth: Yeats's Theory of Theatre. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1975.

Harper, George Mills. W. B. Yeats and W. T. Horton: The Record of an Occult Friendship. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1980.

Harper, George Mills. The Making of Yeats's A Vision: A Study of the Automatic Script. 2 vol. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

Harper, George Mills, ed. Yeats's Vision Papers. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

Harris, Daniel A. Yeats: Coole Park and Ballylee. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

Hassett, Joseph M. Yeats and the Poetics of Hate. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1986.

Haswell, Janis Tedesco. Pressed against Divinity: W. B. Yeats's Feminine Masks. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997.

Henn, T. R. The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1965.

Henn, T. R. W. B. Yeats and the Poetry of War. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Hoare, Dorothy. The Works of Morris and of Yeats in Relation to Early Saga Literature. Cambridge, England: The University Press, 1937.

Holdeman, David. Much Laboring: The Texts and Authors of Yeats's First Modernist Books. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Hone, Joseph M. W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962.

Hough, Graham. The Mystery Religion of W. B. Yeats. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1984.

Howes, Marjorie. Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Jeffares, A. Norman. The Poetry of W. B. Yeats. London: E. Arnold, 1961.

Jeffares, A. Norman. W. B. Yeats, Man and Poet. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.

Jeffares, A. Norman. A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1968.

Jeffares, A. Norman. The Circus Animals: Essays on W. B. Yeats. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1970.

Jeffares, A. Norman. W. B. Yeats. New York: Humanities Press, 1971.

Jeffares, A. Norman. A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984.

Jeffares, A. Norman. W. B. Yeats: A New Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.

Jeffares, A. Norman, and A. S. Knowland. A Commentary on the Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.

Jennings, Elizabeth. Reaching into Silence: A Study of Eight Twentieth-Century Visionaries. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974.

Jochum, K. P. S. W. B. Yeats: A Classified Bibliography of Criticism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Jochum, K. P. S., and Allan Wade. 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 of the Irish Literary and Dramatic Revival. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

John, Brian. Supreme Fictions: Studies in the Work of William Blake, Thomas Carlyle, W. B. Yeats, and D. H. Lawrence. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974.

Johnson, Anthony L. The Verbal Art of W. B. Yeats. Pisa: ETS, 1994.

Jones, James. Adam's Dream: Mythic Consciousness in Keats and Yeats. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1975.

Kabir, Humayun. Poetry, Monads, and Society. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1941.

Kain, Richard M. Dublin: In the Age of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Kalim, M. Siddiq. The Soul's Habitation: Yeats's Approach to Shelley. Islamabad: National Book Foundation, 1988.

Kaplan, Stuart R. The Encyclopedia of Tarot. New York: U.S. Games Systems, 1978.

Keane, Patrick J. Terrible Beauty: Yeats, Joyce, Ireland, and the Myth of the Devouring Female. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988.

Kermode, Frank. Romantic Image. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961.

Kirby, Sheelah, ed. The Yeats Country: A Guide to Places in the West of Ireland Associated with the Life and Writings of William Butler Yeats. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1962.

Kline, Gloria C. The Last Courtly Lover: Yeats and the Idea of Woman. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.

Knowland, A. S. W. B. Yeats, Dramatist of Vision. Gerrards Cross, England: Colin Smythe, 1983.

Koch, Vivienne. W. B. Yeats, the Tragic Phase: A Study of the Last Poems. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1951.

Komesu, Okifumi. The Double Perspective of Yeats's Aesthetic. Gerrards Cross, England: Colin Smythe, 1984.

Krans, Horatio. William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival. New York: Haskell House, 1966.

Kremen, Kathryn R. The Imagination of the Resurrection: The Poetic Continuity of a Religious Motif in Donne, Blake, and Yeats. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1972.

Krimm, Bernard G. W. B. Yeats and the Emergence of the Irish Free State 1918-1939: Living in the Explosion. Troy, NY: Whitston Pub. Co, 1981.

Kuch, Peter. Yeats and A.E.: The Antagonism That Unites Dear Friends. Gerrards Cross, England: Colin Smythe, 1986.

Larrissy, Edward. W. B. Yeats. Writers and Their Work . Plymouth, England: Northcote House, with the British Council, 1998.

Leeming, Glenda. Poetic Drama. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

LeMieux, David. The Ancient Tarot and Its Symbolism. London: Cornwall Books, 1985.

Lentricchia, Frank. The Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

Levine, Bernard. The Dissolving Image: The Spiritual-Esthetic Development of W. B. Yeats. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970.

Levine, Herbert J. Yeats's Daimonic Renewal. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.

Liebregts, P. Centaurs in the Twilight: W. B. Yeat's Use of the Classical Tradition. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993.

Longenbach, James. Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Lucas, F. L. The Drama of Chekhov, Synge, Yeats, and Pirandello. London: Cassell, 1963.

Lynch, David. Yeats: The Poetics of the Self. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

MacLiammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland. W. B. Yeats. New York: Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1971.

MacNeice, Louis. The Poetry of W. B. Yeats. London: Faber, 1967.

Macrae, Alasdair. W. B. Yeats: A Literary Life. New York: St. Martin's, 1995.

Maddox, Brenda. Yeats’Äôs Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

Malins, Edward. A Preface to Yeats. New York: Scribner, 1974.

Malins, Edward. A Preface to Yeats. 2nd ed., with Revisions and Addition Material by John Purkis. New York: Longman, 1994.

Marcus, Phillip L. Yeats and the Beginning of the Irish Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.

Marcus, Phillip L., ed. The Death of Cuchulain: Manuscript Materials Including the Author's Final Text. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.

Masefield, John. Some Memories of W. B. Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1940.

Mays, J. C. C., and Stephen Parrish, eds. New Poems: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats. Cornell Yeats. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

McDiarmid, Lucy. Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden Between the Wars. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

McHugh, Roger. Ah, Sweet Dancer: W. B. Yeats and Margot Ruddock, A Correspondence. London: Macmillan, 1970.

Meir, Colin. The Ballads and Songs of W. B. Yeats: The Anglo-Irish Heritage in Subject and Style. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1974.

Melchiori, Giorgio. The Whole Mystery of Art. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960.

Menon, V. K. The Development of William Butler Yeats. Rev. ed. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1960.

Miller, Liam. The Noble Drama of W. B. Yeats. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1977.

Moore, John. Masks of Love and Death: Yeats as Dramatist. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.

Moore, Virginia. The Unicorn: William Butler Yeats' Search for Reality. New York: Macmillan, 1954.

Murphy, Frank. Yeats's Early Poetry: The Quest for Reconciliation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975.

Myers, Stephen W. Yeats's Book of the Nineties: Poetry, Politics, and Rhetoric. [American University Studies IV: English Language and Literature, No: 161] . New York: Peter Lang, 1993.

Myles, Ashley E. Theatre of Aristocracy: A Study of W. B. Yeats as a Dramatist. [Poetic Drama and Poetic Theory, #52] . Salzburg: Inst. fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Salzburg, 1981.

Nathan, Leonard. The Tragic Drama of William Butler Yeats: Figures in a Dance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965.

National Gallery of Ireland. W. B. Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition. Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 1965.

Nelson, James G. Elkin Mathews: Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

North, Michael. The Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.

North, Michael. The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise. Passion and Cunning: Essays on Nationalism, Terrorism, and Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

O'Donnell, William H. A Guide to the Prose Fiction of W. B. Yeats. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.

O'Driscoll, Robert. Symbolism and Some Implications of the Symbolic Approach: W. B. Yeats during the Eighteen-Nineties. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1975.

O'Hara, Daniel T. Tragic Knowledge: Yeats's Autobiography and Hermeneutics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.

Olney, James. The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial Philosophy--Yeats and Jung. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

O'Shea, Edward. Yeats as Editor. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1975.

O'Shea, Edward. A Descriptive Catalog of W. B. Yeats' Library. New York: Garland Publishing Co, 1985.

Oshima, Shotaro. W. B. Yeats and Japan. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1965.

Parkin, Andrew. The Dramatic Imagination of W. B. Yeats. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1978.

Parkinson, Thomas F. W. B. Yeats, Self-Critic: A Study of His Early Verse [and] W. B. Yeats: The Later Poetry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Parrish, Stephen, and James Painter. A Concordance to the Poems of W. B. Yeats. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1963.

Partridge, A. C. The Language of Modern Poetry: Yeats, Eliot, Auden. London: Deutsch, 1976.

Peterson, Richard F. William Butler Yeats. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982.

Pierce, David. Yeats's Worlds: Ireland, England and the Poetic Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Ponce, Charles. Kabbalah: An Introduction and Illumination for the World Today. New York: Theosophical Publishing House, 1980.

Pritchard, William H. Lives of the Modern Poets. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Purdy, Dwight H. Biblical Echo and Allusion in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Poetics and the Art of God. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1994.

Putzel, Steven D. Reconstructing Yeats: The Secret Rose and The Wind Among the Reeds. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1986.

Pyle, Hilary. Yeats: Portrait of an Artistic Family. London: Merrell Holberton, 1997.

Qamber, Akhtar. Yeats and the Noh, with Two Plays for Dancers by Yeats and Two Noh Plays. New York: Weatherhill, 1974.

Quinn, John. The Letters of John Quinn to William Butler Yeats. Ed. Alan Himber and George Mills Harper. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.

Rai, Rama Nand. W. B. Yeats: Poetic Theory and Practice. [Poetic Drama and Poetic Theory, #54] . Salzburg: Inst. fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Salzburg, 1983.

Raine, Kathleen. Yeats, the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1972.

Raine, Kathleen. Death-in-Life and Life-in-Death: Cuchulain Comforted and News for the Delphic Oracle. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1974.

Raine, Kathleen. From Blake to A Vision. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1979.

Raine, Kathleen. Yeats the Initiate: Essays on Certain Themes on the Works of W. B. Yeats. London: Allen and Unwin, 1986.

Rajan, Balachandra. W. B. Yeats: A Critical Introduction. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1965.

Ramazani, Jahan. Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Ramratnam, Malati. W. B. Yeats and the Craft of Verse. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985.

Regardie, Isreal. What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn. Phoenix: Falcon Press, 1987.

Regueiro, Helen. The Limits of Imagination: Wordsworth, Yeats, and Stevens. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976.

Reid, B. L. William Butler Yeats: The Lyric of Tragedy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961.

Reid, Forrest. W. B. Yeats: A Critical Study. Reprint of the 1915 ed. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Press, 1969.

Rodgers, W. R. Irish Literary Portraits: W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, George Moore, George Bernard Shaw, Oliver St. John Gogarty, F. R. Higgins, AE. London: B. B. C., 1972.

Ronsley, Joseph. Yeats's Autobiography: Life as Symbolic Pattern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.

Rosenthal, M. L. Sailing into the Unknown: Yeats, Pound, and Eliot. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Rosenthal, M. L. Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Rudd, Margaret. Divided Image: A Study of William Blake and W. B. Yeats. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.

Sahal, N. Sixty Years of Realistic Irish Drama. Bombay: MacMillan, 1971.

Salvadori, Corinna. Yeats and Castiglione, Poet and Courtier. Dublin: A. Figgis, 1965.

Saul, George Brandon. Prolegomena to the Study of Yeats's Poems. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957.

Scholem, Gershom. Kabbalah. New York: Quadrangle, 1974.

Seiden, Morton. William Butler Yeats: The Poet as a Mythmaker, 1865--1939. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1962.

Shah, Ramesh Chandra. Yeats and Eliot: Perspectives on India. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1983.

Shaw, Priscilla. Rilke, Valery, and Yeats: The Domain of the Self. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1964.

Sidnell, Michael J. Yeats's Poetry and Poetics. New York: St. Martin's, 1996.

Sidnell, Michael J., George P. Mayhew, and David R. Clark. Druid Craft: The Writing of The Shadowy Waters. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1971.

Siegel, Sandra F., ed. Purgatory: Manuscript Materials Including the Author's Final Text. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

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