• Yeats was a playwright in addition to being a poet. To explore some of Yeats's plays, read The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats (1966), edited by Russell K. Alspach.

• In Yeats at Work (1965), Bradford Curtis analyzes selected manuscripts of Yeats, demonstrating the evolution of various poems through multiple revisions.

• Mario D’Avanzo draws a comparison between “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “The Song of Solomon” in his 1971 essay published in The McNeese Review.

• Susan Johnston Graf’s 2000 study, W. B. Yeats: Twentieth-Century Magus, investigates Yeats's involvement with the Order of the Golden Dawn, an occult group. Graf also explores Yeats’s magical practices and their influence on his work.

• To discover more about Innisfree itself, read Tadhg Kilgannon’s 1926 book, Sligo and Its Surroundings: A Descriptive and Pictorial Guide to the History, Scenery, Antiquities and Places of Interest in and around Sligo.

• Bernard G. Krimm’s W. B. Yeats and the Emergence of the Irish Free State, 1918–1939: Living in the Explosion (1981) explores Yeats’s writings and career in the context of Ireland’s struggle for independence from British rule in the early twentieth century.

• Tom Mulvany’s essay, “The Genesis of a Lyric: Yeats’s ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’,” delves into the creation of the poem. It can be found in the Winter 1965 volume of Texas Quarterly, pp. 160–64.

• Maire and Conor Cruise O’Brien’s Ireland: A Concise History (1972) offers a succinct and impartial history of Ireland, complemented by informative photographs. Maire O’Brien is the daughter of Sean Mac Entee, a veteran of the 1916 Rising and former Irish politician.

• Many poets have parodied Yeats’s poem. One of the most famous parodies is Ezra Pound’s 1916 poem titled “The Lake Isle.”

• A. G. Stock’s 1961 book from Cambridge University Press, W. B. Yeats: His Poetry and Thought, is a highly useful and accessible critical introduction to Yeats’s work.

• Oliver Stonor’s 1933 essay “Three Men of the West,” published in John o’ London’s Weekly, describes the author’s visit to Innisfree to gain a first-hand perspective of what inspired Yeats’s poem.

• In Builders and Makers: Occasional Studies (1944), Gilbert Thomas argues that Yeats never constructed a cabin on Innisfree because he thrived on the life of the imagination.

• Yeats was heavily influenced by Thoreau’s book Walden, originally published in 1854, and he references a passage from it in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” Students would benefit from comparing Thoreau’s views on nature and solitude with those of Yeats.

• J. B. Yeats’s Letters to his Son W. B. Yeats and Others (1944) provides an intimate look at the close relationship between Yeats and his father through their correspondence.