Mythologies. [The Celtic Twilight -- The secret rose -- Stories of red Hanrahan -- Rosa Alchemica, the tables of the law and the Adoration of the Maji -- Per Amica Silentia Lunae] by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. ; art, John Singer Sargent - 1959

New York, Macmillan, 1959, 1959. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 368 p. illus. 25 cm. ; LCCN: 59-12014 ; LC: PR5902; Dewey: 828; OCLC: 364452 ; ; Contents : The Celtic Twilight -- The secret rose -- Stories of red Hanrahan -- Rosa Alchemica, the tables of the law and the Adoration of the Maji -- Per Amica Silentia Lunae ; The Celtic Twilight Contents: A Teller of Tales -- Belief and Unbelief -- Mortal Help -- A Visionary -- Village Ghosts -- "Dust Hath Closed Helen's Eye" -- A Knight of the Sheep -- An Enduring Heart -- The Sorcerers -- The Devil -- Happy and Unhappy Theologians -- The Last Gleeman -- Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni -- "And Fair, Fierce Women" -- Enchanted Woods -- Miraculous Creatures -- Aristotle of the Books -- The Swine of the Gods -- A Voice -- Kidnappers -- The Untiring Ones -- Earth, Fire and Water -- The Old Town -- The Man and His Boots -- A Coward -- The Three O'Byrnes and the Evil Faeries -- Drumcliff and Rosses -- The Thick Skull of the Fortunate -- The Religion of a Sailor -- Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory -- The Eaters of Precious Stones -- Our Lady of the Hills -- The Golden Age -- A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for Having Soured the Disposition of Their Ghosts and Faeries -- War -- The Queen and the Fool -- The Friends of the People of Faery -- Dreams That Have No Moral -- By the Roadside -- Into the Twilight. ; The Secret Rose Contents: To the secret rose -- The crucifixion of the outcast -- Out of the rose -- The wisdom of the king -- The heart of the spring -- The curse of the fires and of the shadows -- When there is nothing, there is God -- The old men of the twilight -- Proud Costello, Macdermot's daughter, and the bitter tongue ; The Stories of Red Hanrahan Contents: Red Hanrahan -- The twisting of the rope -- Hanrahan and Cathleen the daughter of Hoolihan -- Red Hanrahan's curse -- Hanrahan's vision -- The death of Hanrahan. ; Rosa Alchemica, the Tables of the Law, and Adoration of the Magi Contents: Rosa Alchemica -- The Tables of the Law -- The Adoration of the MAgi -- Per Amica Silentia Lunae -- Prologue -- Ego dominus tuus -- Anima hominis -- Anima mundi -- Epilogue ; "Mythologies is comprised of three classic collections: The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, and Stories of Red Hanrahan. ; Yeats traveled all over Ireland in search of authentic folklore and folk traditions, and many of the pieces are introduced with engaging accounts of the storytellers who shared the legends that had been passed down through their families. Yeats's fascination with the occult infuses several of the stories" ; water spot on front cover ; no dustjacket ; FAIR.