WHEN AVAILABLE, the texts have been taken from volumes in the Scribner/Palgrave Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, General Editors): Autobiographies, ed. William H. O’Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald (1999); Later Essays, ed. William H. O’Donnell (1994); The Plays, ed. David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark (2001); and The Poems, second ed., ed. Richard J. Finneran (1997). For works not presently available in the Collected Edition, the following texts have been used, with some minor changes: Essays and Introductions (1961); Explorations, sel. Mrs. W. B. Yeats (1962); Memoirs, ed. Denis Donoghue (1972); Mythologies (1959); The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition, ed. Warwick Gould, Phillip L. Marcus, and Michael J. Sidnell (1992); and A Vision (1962).
In the Poems section, a stanza break coincides with the end of pages 5, 6, 9, 13, 16, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 32, 46, 56, 79, 81, 82, 87, 91, 94, 96, 97, 107, 111, 112, 113, 118, 127, 134, 144, 477, and 480.