Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of William Butler Yeats — Context and Discussion

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Authors: Widger, David, 1932-2021 [Editor], Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 Digital Source: Project Gutenberg Gutenberg Release Year: 2019 First Publication Year: Not confirmed

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This index catalogs 44 Project Gutenberg titles by W. B. Yeats, listing contents for multi-volume collections and individual works, with a note on ebooks lacking linked tables of contents.

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

Compiled by David Widger

## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 1

## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 2

## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 3

## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 4

## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 5

## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 6

## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 7

## COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS, Vol. 8

## STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN

## FAIRY AND FOLK TALES

## SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT

## THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS

## THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE

## IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL

## THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE

## THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL

## WHERE THERE IS NOTHING

## THE KING'S THRESHOLD; BAILE'S STRAND

## JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA

THE FOLLOWING EBOOKS HAVE NO LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS

PER AMICA SILENTIA LUNAE

REVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH

SYNGE AND THE IRELAND OF HIS TIME

THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS

THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE

TWO PLAYS FOR DANCERS

UNICORN FROM THE STARS

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

POEMS LYRICAL AND NARRATIVE Being The First Volume Of The Collected Works In Verse And Prose Of William Butler Yeats

CONTENTS PAGE THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS: THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE 3 THE EVERLASTING VOICES 4 THE MOODS 4 THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART 5 THE HOST OF THE AIR 6 THE FISHERMAN 8 A CRADLE SONG 9 INTO THE TWILIGHT 10 THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS 11 THE HEART OF THE WOMAN 13 THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE 14 HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND HIS BELOVED AND LONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD 15 HE BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEACE 17 HE REPROVES THE CURLEW 18 HE REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY 19 A POET TO HIS BELOVED 20 HE GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES 20 TO MY HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR 21 THE CAP AND BELLS 22 THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG 24[vi] THE LOVER ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS 25 HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS 27 HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY 28 HE HEARS THE CRY OF THE SEDGE 28 HE THINKS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN EVIL OF HIS BELOVED 29 THE BLESSED 30 THE SECRET ROSE 32 MAID QUIET 33 THE TRAVAIL OF PASSION 34 THE LOVER PLEADS WITH HIS FRIEND FOR OLD FRIENDS 35 A LOVER SPEAKS TO THE HEARERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS 36 THE POET PLEADS WITH THE ELEMENTAL POWERS 37 HE WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD 39 HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN 39 HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF THE CONSTELLATIONS OF HEAVEN 40

THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE 41

IN THE SEVEN WOODS: IN THE SEVEN WOODS 63 THE ARROW 66 THE FOLLY OF BEING COMFORTED 67[vii] OLD MEMORY 68 NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART 69 THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS 70 ADAMâ?TS CURSE 72 RED HANRAHANâ?TS SONG ABOUT IRELAND 74 THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER 75 UNDER THE MOON 76 THE HOLLOW WOOD 78 O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG 79 THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES 80 THE HAPPY TOWNLAND 82

EARLY POEMS. BALLADS AND LYRICS: TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE. A DEDICATION TO A VOLUME OF EARLY POEMS 89 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD 91 THE SAD SHEPHERD 94 THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES 96 ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA 97 THE INDIAN UPON GOD 103 THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE 105 THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES 106 EPHEMERA 107 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL 109[viii] THE STOLEN CHILD 113 TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER 116 DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS 117 THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN 118 THE BALLAD OF FATHER Oâ?THART 119 THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE 121 THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER 124 THE BALLAD OF FATHER GILLIGAN 127 THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER 130 THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY 131 THE DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS 132

THE ROSE: TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME 139 FERGUS AND THE DRUID 141 THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN 144 THE ROSE OF THE WORLD 149 THE ROSE OF PEACE 150 THE ROSE OF BATTLE 151 A FAERY SONG 153 THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE 154 A CRADLE SONG 155 THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER 156 THE PITY OF LOVE 156 THE SORROW OF LOVE 157 WHEN YOU ARE OLD 158 THE WHITE BIRDS 159 A DREAM OF DEATH 161[ix] A DREAM OF A BLESSED SPIRIT 162 THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND 163 THE TWO TREES 165 TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES 167

THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN 169

THE KING'S THRESHOLD; ON BAILE'S STRAND. DEIRDRE; SHADOWY WATERS Being The Second Volume of The Collected Works In Verse & Prose of William Butler Yeats

CONTENTS PAGE THE KING'S THRESHOLD 1 ON BAILE'S STRAND 69 DEIRDRE 125 THE SHADOWY WATERS 179

APPENDIX I: ACTING VERSION OF 'THE SHADOWY WATERS' 231

APPENDIX II: A DIFFERENT VERSION OF DEIRDRE'S ENTRANCE 251

APPENDIX III: THE LEGENDARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF THE PLAYS 254

APPENDIX IV: THE DATES AND PLACES OF PERFORMANCE OF PLAYS 256

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The index opens with a practical distinction: titles preceded by '##' offer a linked table of contents, while those listed without it—such as Four Years and Synge and the Ireland of His Time—do not. This structural split immediately signals that the volume is a finding aid, not a reading text.

Compiled by David Widger, the index draws on Yeats's Collected Works in Verse and Prose (8 volumes) and separates standalone publications like The Wind Among the Reeds from plays and essays. The contents pages reproduced here reveal Yeats's own ordering: poems grouped by collection, plays by act, and essays by thematic clusters such as 'Concerning Saints and Artists' or 'The Thinking of the Body.'

A Dual Structure: Linked and Unlinked Entries

The index's most immediate feature is its bifurcated layout. The first block lists 28 titles with clickable '##' markers, each leading to a linked table of contents. These include the eight-volume Collected Works, major poetry collections like The Wild Swans at Coole, and plays such as The King's Threshold. A second block, headed 'THE FOLLOWING EBOOKS HAVE NO LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS,' lists 12 titles—among them Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and The Green Helmet and Other Poems—without such navigation aids.

This division is not merely technical. It reflects the uneven state of the source materials: some ebooks were produced with full structural markup, others as plain text. For a reader navigating Yeats's oeuvre, the distinction matters. A linked table of contents allows quick jumps between poems or acts; without it, one must scroll linearly. The index thus doubles as a map of the archive's own production history.

Yeats's Own Ordering: From 'The Hosting of the Sidhe' to 'The Hour-Glass'

The reproduced contents pages show Yeats's careful arrangement of his work. In The Wind Among the Reeds, poems follow a sequence: 'The Hosting of the Sidhe,' 'The Everlasting Voices,' 'The Moods,' then 'The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart.' The titles alone suggest a movement from the supernatural to the personal, from collective myth to individual longing.

Similarly, the table for Responsibilities and Other Poems opens with 'Introductory Rhymes' and closes with 'Closing Rhymes,' framing the collection as a deliberate arc. Within it, poems like 'September 1913' and 'To a Shade' sit alongside 'The Three Beggars' and 'The Magi,' mixing political commentary with folkloric and religious imagery. The index preserves these juxtapositions, allowing a reader to trace Yeats's thematic preoccupations across volumes without needing to open each ebook.

The Editor's Role: David Widger's Compilation

David Widger, credited as editor, has assembled this index from existing Project Gutenberg ebooks. His work is evident in the uniform formatting: each entry lists the title, and for multi-volume sets, the volume number. The index also includes a note that 'most recently updated' on February 25, 2021, indicating ongoing maintenance.

Widger's compilation does not impose a new order but reproduces Yeats's own tables of contents. The result is a reference tool that mirrors the structure of the Collected Works while also flagging gaps—those ebooks without linked tables of contents. For a scholar or casual reader, the index serves as a gateway: it lists all available titles in one place, but the quality of navigation varies by entry. The editor's role is thus one of curation and disclosure, not interpretation.

This index is best used as a starting point. Before reading a specific poem or play, check whether the ebook has a linked table of contents—if not, consider opening the volume directly and using the search function. The contents pages reproduced here offer a glimpse of Yeats's own arrangements, but they are not substitutes for the full texts. For a deeper understanding, consult the individual ebooks listed.