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October 04, 2004
The Secret Rose
Flea-readers with deep pockets should feel free to purchase this W.B. Yeats second issue for my library.
W. B. Yeats's Talismanic Book: The Secret Rose
W. B. Yeats's collection of 17 short stories, The Secret Rose (1897), illustrated by the poet's father J. B. Yeats and published by Lawrence and Bullen, is one of the most striking volumes in a decade of ornately-styled books. Much of the text is in the elaborate style of Walter Pater that Yeats himself later deplored. Cover designs in cabalistic iconography, fitting the book's content to create a "talismanic" work, are by Althea Gyles, whom Yeats knew as a fellow student of the occult as well as an artist and poet.
W. B. Yeats's collection of 17 short stories, The Secret Rose (1897), illustrated by the poet's father J. B. Yeats and published by Lawrence and Bullen, is one of the most striking volumes in a decade of ornately-styled books. Much of the text is in the elaborate style of Walter Pater that Yeats himself later deplored. Cover designs in cabalistic iconography, fitting the book's content to create a "talismanic" work, are by Althea Gyles, whom Yeats knew as a fellow student of the occult as well as an artist and poet.
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