The Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica
William Butler Yeats
Read by Ben Tucker
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) (2 hr 39 min)
Chapters
Preface | 2:40 | Read by Ben Tucker |
To the Secret Rose | 2:01 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Crucifixtion of the Outcast | 15:29 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Out of the Rose | 13:11 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Wisdom of the King | 12:50 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Heart of the Spring | 11:11 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows | 11:33 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Old Men of the Twilight | 10:15 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Where There is Nothing, There is God | 10:06 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Proud Costello, MacDermot's Daughter and the Bitter Tongue | 28:24 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Rosa Alchemica | 42:07 | Read by Ben Tucker |