The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
by:
Robert Graves (author)
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was...
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The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374504939 (0374504938)
ASIN: 374504938
Publish date: January 1st 1966
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Poetry,
Anthropology,
Mythology,
Folklore,
Paganism
I first read The White Goddess during a road trip with my ex at the turn of the century. I can remember several days when we were staying at a bed-and-breakfast in pre-Katrina New Orleans. It was neither overly warm nor overly humid, and my erstwhile spouse was recovering from serving as a mosquito ...
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