W.B. YEATS
Scope|Circulating
Books|Critical
Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
Scope: W.B. Yeats was born in
Dublin, Ireland June 13, 1865. He published all genres
of literature except the novel. Yeats was considered the
major English-speaking poet of the modern era
(1890-1950) Yeats was the co-founder of the Irish
National Theater. He was a true scholar in that his
writing contained numerous references to symbolism, and
allusions to mythology and religion.
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of W. B. Yeat’s works are listed in our on-line
catalog under, “Yeats, W.B.” and under individual
titles.
Books written by and about W. B. Yeats have the call
number (s)
PR 5907
Some representative books from the circulating
collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
Jeffares, A. Norman.
A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats.
Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1984.
Jeffares, A. Norman.
W.B. Yeats, a New Biography. New York: Farrar Straus
Giroux, 1989.
Unterecker, John Eugene.
Yeats: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood
Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1963.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not
circulate, but pages may be photocopied. These sources
provide a summary or overview of the topic.
The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
PS 303.C64 The Columbia History of American Poetry
PR 502.C85 1992 Critical Survey of Poetry
PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th-Century Writers
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
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02/08/2007
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