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The white goddess : a historical grammar of poetic myth / Robert Graves.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1975.Edition: Amended and enl. edDescription: 511 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0374504938 (pbk.) :
  • 9780374504939 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Poets and gleemen -- The battle of the trees -- Dog, roebuck and 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 and 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--A.D. 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.
Summary: Examines the language of ancient Celtic and Mediterranean poetic myths, probing the role of the all-encompassing female figure, the White Goddess, in the earliest forms of poetry.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes index.

Poets and gleemen -- The battle of the trees -- Dog, roebuck and 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 and 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--A.D. 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.

Examines the language of ancient Celtic and Mediterranean poetic myths, probing the role of the all-encompassing female figure, the White Goddess, in the earliest forms of poetry.

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