The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
ISBN-10
0374504938
ISBN-13
9780374504939
Series
The White Goddess
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
512
Language
English
Published
1966-01-01
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author
Robert Graves

Description

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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