The Secret Rose

Name: The Secret Rose
Author: W.B. Yeats
ISBN: 9781787249981

Author: W.B. Yeats
Series: The Best of Yeats
Language: English
Length: 64 pages
ISBN: 9781787249981
Published: 17 January 2019
Imprint: Sovereign

Yeats
Irish
Bohemian
Poetry
lyrical
intense
mystical
magic
romantic
mysterious

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Description

"The Secret Rose" by W.B. Yeats is a captivating collection of short stories that transport readers to the mystical realms of Irish folklore and mythology. Through enchanting narratives, Yeats explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the timeless struggle between the mortal and the supernatural. Each story is a tapestry of symbolism and allegory, blending the magical with the mundane. With prose that is both evocative and thought-provoking, Yeats invites readers into a world where reality and myth coalesce, revealing the hidden depths of the human experience and the secrets that lie within the heart of the rose.

Author

W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) was born in Dublin, helped found the Abbey Theatre, and in 1923 became the first Irish Nobel laureate in literature. The Celtic Twilight gathered folklore as if the sidhe still used the roads; The Wind Among the Reeds is the lyric of that weather — love, occult symbols, a nation coming into verse. Senator, magician, and reviser of his own legends. The later poems grow colder and larger. Ireland remains the ground.

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