Celebrated poet and author William Butler Yeats has graced us, in The Secret Rose, with a hauntingly beautiful collection of mystical stories with the flavor of the Irish legends and folk tales while touching themes of loss and religious devotion. Also included is the chapbook Rosa Alchemica, a dark magic exploration of the alchemical Rosicrucian rituals with an elaborate and entrancing prose style only Yeats could conjure. (Summary by Ben Tucker)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Preface
02:40 - Chapter 2
To the Secret Rose
02:01 - Chapter 3
The Crucifixtion of the Outcast
15:29 - Chapter 4
Out of the Rose
13:11 - Chapter 5
The Wisdom of the King
12:50 - Chapter 6
The Heart of the Spring
11:11 - Chapter 7
The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows
11:33 - Chapter 8
The Old Men of the Twilight
10:15 - Chapter 9
Where There is Nothing, There is God
10:06 - Chapter 10
Proud Costello, MacDermot's Daughter and the Bitter Tongue
28:24 - Chapter 11
Rosa Alchemica
42:07