The White Goddess : a historical grammar of poetic myth / Robert Graves
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TextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : Faber and Faber, c1961Description: 511 pages ; 20 cmISBN: - 571069614
- PN 1077 .G73 1961
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Includes index.
Poets and Gleemen -- The Battle of the trees -- Dog, Roebuck and Lapwing -- The White goddess -- Geion's riddle -- A visit to spiral castle -- Gwion's riddle solved -- Hercules on the Lotus -- Gwion's heresy -- The tree-alphabet (1) -- The tree-alphabet (2) -- The Song of Amergin -- Palamede and the crane -- The Roebuck in the thicket -- The Seven pillars -- The Holy unspeakable name of God -- The Lion with the steady hand -- The Bull-footed God -- The Number of the beast -- A conversation at Paphos - A.D. 43 -- The Waters of the Styx -- The Triple muse -- Fabulous beasts -- The Single poetic theme -- The Return of the goddess -- Postscript 1960
A work first published in 1948 in which Graves argues that the language of poetic myth current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse - some dating from the Old Stone Age.
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