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The Secret Rose

The Secret Rose

Author: W. B. Yeats
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As for living, our servants will do that for us.-Villiers de L'Isle Adam

Word Count: 358    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

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romance, and by a national poem or romance I understand them to mean a poem or romance founded upon some famous moment of Irish history, and built up out of the thoughts and feelings which move the greater number of patriotic Irishmen. I on the other hand believe that poetry and romance cannot be made by the most conscientious study of famous moments and of the thoughts and feelings of others, but only by looking into that little, infinite, faltering, eternal flame that we call ourselves. If a writer wishes to interest a certain people among whom he has grown up, or fancies he has a duty toward

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The Secret Rose
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W. B. Yeats Romance
“My dear A.E.—I dedicate this book to you because, whether you think it well or ill written, you will sympathize with the sorrows and the ecstasies of its personages, perhaps even more than I do myself. Although I wrote these stories at different times and in different manners, and without any definite plan, they have but one subject, the war of spiritual with natural order; and how can I dedicate such a book to anyone but to you, the one poet of modern Ireland who has moulded a spiritual ecstasy into verse?”
1 As for living, our servants will do that for us.-Villiers de L'Isle Adam2 To the Secret Rose3 The Crucifixion of the Outcast4 Out of the Rose5 The Wisdom of the King6 The Heart of the Spring7 The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows8 The Old Men of the Twilight9 Where There is Nothing, There is God10 Of Costello the Proud, of Oona the Daughter of Dermott, and of the Bitter Tongue