White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

Robert Graves
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
January 1 1966
EAN: 9780374504939
ISBN: 0374504938
Synopsis: "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.