| 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: T. Werner Laurie, 1925. |
| AVB |
A Vision. 1937; revised, London: Macmillan, 1962. |
| Berg |
Books and Manuscripts, The Berg Collection, New York Public Library (Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations). |
| CL1 |
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume I, 1865–1895, ed. John Kelly and Eric Domville. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. |
| CL2 |
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume II, 1896–1900, ed. Warwick Gould, John Kelly, and Deirdre Toomey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. |
| CL3 |
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume III, 1901–1904, ed. John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. |
| CL4 |
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Volume IV, 1905–1907, ed. John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. |
| CL5 |
Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume V, 1908-1910, ed. John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2018. |
| 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, 1990. |
| CW1 |
The Poems, second edition, ed. Richard J. Finneran. New York: Scribner, 1997. |
| CW2 |
The Plays, ed. David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark. New York: Scribner, 2001. |
| CW3 |
Autobiographies, ed. William H. O’Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald, assisted by J. Frasier Cocks III and Gretchen Schwenker. New York: Scribner, 1999. |
| CW4 |
Early Essays, ed. Richard J. Finneran and George Bornstein. New York: Scribner, 2007. |
| CW5 |
Later Essays, ed. William H. O’Donnell, with assistance from Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux. New York: Scribner, 1994. |
| 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. |
| CW7 |
Letters to the New Island, eds. George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer. London: Macmillan, 1989. |
| CW8 |
The Irish Dramatic Movement, eds. Mary FitzGerald and Richard J. Finneran. New York: Scribner, 2003. |
| CW9 |
Early Articles and Reviews, ed. Franye and Marchaterre |
| CW10 |
Later Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts written after 1900, ed. Colton Johnson. New York: Scribner, 2000. |
CW11 |
Mythologies |
| CW12 |
John Sherman and Dhoya, ed. Richard J. Finneran. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991. |
| CW13 |
A Vision: The Original 1925 Version, ed. Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper. New York: Scribner 2008. |
| CW14 |
A Vision: the revised 1937 edition, ed. Margaret Mills Harper and Catherine E. Paul. New York: Scribner, 2015. |
| CWVP 1-8 |
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. 8 vols. |
| 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. |
| Ex |
Explorations, selected by Mrs W. B. Yeats. London: Macmillan, 1962; New York: Macmillan, 1963. |
| Emory |
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. |
| 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. |
| JBYL |
Letters to his Son W. B. Yeats and Others 1869–1922, by J. B. Yeats, ed. with a memoir by Joseph Hone and a preface by Oliver Elton. London: 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. |
| 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, Margot Ruddock, A Correspondence, ed. Roger McHugh. London and New York: Macmillan, 1970. |
| 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. by Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005. |
| NLI |
Manuscripts in the National Library of Ireland. |
| NYPL |
Manuscripts in the New York Public Library. |
| OBMV |
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1895–1935, chosen by W. B. Yeats. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936. |
| Princeton |
Manuscripts in the Scribner Archive, Firestone Library, Princeton University. |
| 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, eds. 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, IN: 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, PA: 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. 2, ed. John P. Frayne and Colton Johnson. London: Macmillan, 1975; New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. |
| VP |
The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. New York: Macmillan, 1957. |
| VPl |
The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats, ed. Russell K. Alspach, assisted by Catharine C. Alspach. New York: Macmillan, 1966. |
| Wade |
Allan Wade, A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats, third ed., revised by Russell K. Alspach. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. |
| YA |
Yeats Annual, ed. Warwick Gould. Various publishers, 1982–. |
| YAACTS |
Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, ed. Richard J. Finneran (publishers vary, 1983–1999) |
| YGYL |
W. B. Yeats and George Yeats: the Letters, ed. Ann Saddlemyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| YO |
Yeats and the Occult, ed. George Mills Harper. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; Niagara Falls, New York: Maclean-Hunter Press, 1975. |
