Prose
Stories of fairies and wandering poets, essays on magic and the theatre, and his own memories of a Sligo and London childhood: the prose he published up to 1930.
- 1888Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish PeasantryEdited by W. B. YeatsAn anthology Yeats edited for Walter Scott's Camelot Series in 1888, with his own introduction and notes. Most tales are by other hands, among them Croker, Carleton, Lady Wilde, Patrick Kennedy and Douglas Hyde.
- 1893The Celtic TwilightFirst published by Lawrence and Bullen, London, in December 1893. Yeats added new chapters for the enlarged edition of 1902, published by A. H. Bullen, and this is the text followed here.
- 1897Rosa AlchemicaFirst printed in The Savoy in April 1896, then collected in The Secret Rose in 1897. The Cuala Press reprinted it in 1914 with The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi.
- 1897The Adoration of the MagiThe companion story to The Tables of the Law, privately printed with it in London in 1897. This text follows the Shakespeare Head Press edition of 1914, printed at Stratford-upon-Avon.
- 1897The Secret RoseStories first published by Lawrence and Bullen in April 1897, with illustrations by John Butler Yeats. This later text leaves out the Red Hanrahan stories, which Yeats rewrote and published separately.
- 1897The Tables of the LawFirst privately printed in London in 1897 with The Adoration of the Magi, and reissued by Elkin Mathews in 1904. This text follows the Shakespeare Head Press edition of 1914.
- 1903Ideas of Good and EvilEssays on poetry, magic, Blake, Shelley and the theatre, published by A. H. Bullen in May 1903. This text follows the second edition, printed by Bullen the same year.
- 1905Stories of Red HanrahanSix stories of the poet Red Hanrahan, rewritten with Lady Gregory from versions in The Secret Rose of 1897 and published by the Dun Emer Press, Dundrum, in 1905.
- 1915Reveries over Childhood and YouthYeats's memoir of his early years, first printed by the Cuala Press with the date 1915 and issued in March 1916. This text follows the Macmillan edition published in New York in 1916.
- 1918Per Amica Silentia LunaeTwo essays, Anima Hominis and Anima Mundi, with a prologue, an epilogue and the poem Ego Dominus Tuus. Published by Macmillan in London and New York in January 1918.