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The Secret Rose

Author: W. B. Yeats

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Notes

First published 1897.

Sources

    Manuscript
  1. [Details to follow].
    Editions and translations
  1. W. B. Yeats, The Secret Rose, with illustrations by J.B. Yeats (London 1897). [Reprinted Dublin 1905.]
  2. W. B. Yeats, The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats, vol. 7 (Stratford-on-Avon 1908).
  3. W. B. Yeats, Stories of Red Hanrahan, The Secret Rose, Rosa Alchemica (New York 1914).
  4. W. B. Yeats, The Secret Rose: stories by W. B. Yeats, edited by Phillip L. Marcus, Warwick Gould and Michael J. Sidnell. Variorum edition (Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press 1981, second edition London 1992).
  5. W. B. Yeats, Die chymische Rose. Translated into German by Herberth E. Herlitschka (Hellerau 1927).
  6. W. B. Yeats, Les histories de la rose secrète; traduction du Centre de littérature, linguistique et civilisation des pays de langue anglaise de l'Université de Caen; sous la direction de Jacqueline Genet (Lille: Presses universitaires, 1984).
  7. Luca Gallesi, Esoterismo e folklore in William Butler Yeats: in appendice, W.B. Yeats: La rosa secreta (Milano [Milan] 1990). [Includes Italian translation].
    Further reading
  1. W.B. Yeats, The Body of Father Christian Rosencrux, in Essays and Introductions.
  2. W.B. Yeats, The Tables of the Law (1896/97), in Essays and Introductions.
  3. W.B. Yeats, Adoration of the Magi (1896/97), in Essays and Introductions.
  4. W.B. Yeats, The Autumn of the Body (1898), in Essays and Introductions.
  5. W.B. Yeats, The Two Kinds of Ascetism, in Essays and Introductions.
    Literature (a small selection)
  1. Stories of Red Hanrahan, the Secret Rose, Rosa Alchemica by W. B. Yeats, reviewed by George Townshend, The Sewanee Review, 23/2 (April 1915) 255–56.
  2. W. B. Yeats, The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, consisting of Reveries over childhood and youth, The trembling of the veil, and Dramatis personae (New York 1938).
  3. Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks. Corrected edition with a new preface (Oxford 1979). [First published New York 1948; reprinted London 1961.]
  4. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats (New York: Macmillan 1957).
  5. W. B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions (New York: Macmillan 1961).
  6. W. B. Yeats, Explorations: selected by Mrs W. B.Yeats (London/New York: Macmillan 1962).
  7. Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats (New York 1964).
  8. Michael J. Sidnell, 'Versions of the Stories of Red Hanrahan, Yeats Studies I (Bealtaine 1971), 119–174. [Gives different versions of the story and editorial changes.
  9. Richard J. Finneran, '"Old lecher with a love on every wind": A Study of Yeats' Stories of Red Hanrahan', Texas Studies in Literature and Language 14/2 (Summer 1972) 347–358.
  10. Robert O'Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds, Yeats and the Occult (Toronto 1975).
  11. B. J. T. Dobbs, The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy (Cambridge: CUP 1975).
  12. Augustine Martin, 'Apocalyptic Structure in Yeats's Secret Rose', Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 64/253 (Spring 1975) 24–34.
  13. Mary Catherine Flannery, Yeats and Magic: the Earlier Works (London 1977).
  14. Kevin McGrath, ''Rosa Alchemica': Pater Scrutinized and Alchemized', Yeats-Eliot Review 5/2 (1978) 13–20.
  15. James Lovic Allen, 'Life as Art: Yeats and the Alchemical Quest' Studies in Literary Imagination 14, no. 1 (Spring 1981) 17–42.
  16. Mary Helen Thuente, W.B. Yeats and Irish Folklore (Totowa 1981).
  17. Daniel O'Hara, Tragic Knowledge: Yeats, Autobiography and Hermeneutics (New York 1981).
  18. William H. O'Donnell, A Guide to the Prose Fiction of W.B. Yeats (Ann Arbor 1983).
  19. Edward Hirsch, 'A War between the Orders: Yeats's Fiction and the Transcendental Moment', NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 17/1 (Autumn 1983) 52–66.
  20. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats (Stanford 1984).
  21. Kathleen Raine, Yeats the Initiate (London 1986).
  22. Steven Putzel, Reconstructing Yeats: The secret rose and The wind among the reeds (Dublin 1986).
  23. Luca Gallesi, Esoterismo e folklore in William Butler Yeats: in appendice, W.B. Yeats: La rosa secreta (Milano [Milan] 1990). [Includes Italian translation].
  24. William T. Gorski, Yeats and Alchemy (New York 1996).
  25. Warwick Gould (ed), Yeats and the Nineties. Yeats Annual no. 14 (Houndmills:Palgrave 2001).
  26. Rachel V. Billigheimer, 'The Rose of Ireland in the Early Poems of W.B. Yeats: Eternity is in the Glitter on the Beetle's Wing', Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 91/363 (Autumn 2002) 276–283.
  27. David Holdeman, The Cambridge Introduction to W.B. Yeats (Cambridge/New York 2006).
  28. Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (Oxford/New York 2007).
  29. A general bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. W. B. Yeats, Stories of Red Hanrahan, The Secret Rose, Rosa Alchemica. William Butler Yeats First edition [v + 231 pp.] MacmillanNew York (1914)

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Created: By W. B. Yeats (1852–1913) (1897)

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