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The White Goddess

A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

By Robert Graves

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| Paperback | 9780374504939

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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 DeathContinue

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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  • The Myths of Robert Graves

    “To bring the dead to life,” according to one of Robert Graves’s poems, “is no great magic”: Few are wholly dead: Blow on a dead man’s embers And a live flame will start.[^1] Scholars have been blowing on Graves’s embers since he died in 1985. They a ... (read full critics)

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 512 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0374504938
  • ISBN-13: 9780374504939
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 1966
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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