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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Amended and Enlarged Edition
About this book
The White Goddessis perhaps the finest of Graves' works on the psychological & mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic & religious scholarship, he explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities--the White Goddess of Birth, Love & Death--who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure & mysterious power of "pure poetry" & its peculiar & mythic language. Foreword Poets & gleemen The battle of the trees Dog, roebuck & lapwing The white goddess Gwion'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 Palamedes & the cranes 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 conservation at Paphos-AD 43 The waters of the styx The triple muse Fabulous beasts The single poetic theme War in heaven The return of the goddess Postscript 1960 Index
Book Details
| ISBN13 | 9780374504939 |
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| ISBN10 | 0374504938 |
| Series/Work | OL5036950W View on OpenLibrary |
| Created At | January 30, 2025 |
| Updated At | January 30, 2025 |
| Last OL update | January 18, 2025 |