The White Goddess
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The White Goddess

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The White Goddess

About this book

This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and also an intensely personal document in which Graves explored the sources of his own inspiration and, as he believed, all true poetry.

This new edition has been prepared by Grevel Lindop, who has written an illuminating introduction. The text of the book incorporates all Graves's final revisions, as well as his replies totwo of the original reviewers, and a long essay in which he describes the months of inspiration in which The White Goddess was written.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2011
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571265510
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
  5. IN DEDICATION
  6. FOREWORD
  7. Chapter One : POETS AND GLEEMEN
  8. Chapter Two : THE BATTLE OF THE TREES
  9. Chapter Three : DOG, ROEBUCK AND LAPWING
  10. Chapter Four : THE WHITE GODDESS
  11. Chapter Five : GWION’S RIDDLE
  12. Chapter Six : A VISIT TO SPIRAL CASTLE
  13. Chapter Seven : GWION’S RIDDLE SOLVED
  14. Chapter Eight : HERCULES ON THE LOTUS
  15. Chapter Nine : GWION’S HERESY
  16. Chapter Ten : THE TREE ALPHABET (1)
  17. Chapter Eleven : THE TREE ALPHABET (2)
  18. Chapter Twelve : THE SONG OF AMERGIN
  19. Chapter Thirteen : PALAMEDES AND THE CRANES
  20. Chapter Fourteen : THE ROEBUCK IN THE THICKET
  21. Chapter Fifteen : THE SEVEN PILLARS
  22. Chapter Sixteen : THE HOLY UNSPEAKABLE NAME OF GOD
  23. Chapter Seventeen : THE LION WITH THE STEADY HAND
  24. Chapter Eighteen : THE BULL-FOOTED GOD
  25. Chapter Nineteen : THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
  26. Chapter Twenty : A CONVERSATION AT PAPHOS – 43 AD
  27. Chapter Twenty-One : THE WATERS OF STYX
  28. Chapter Twenty-Two : THE TRIPLE MUSE
  29. Chapter Twenty-Three : FABULOUS BEASTS
  30. Chapter Twenty-Four : THE SINGLE POETIC THEME
  31. Chapter Twenty-Five : WAR IN HEAVEN
  32. Chapter Twenty-Six : RETURN OF THE GODDESS
  33. Chapter Twenty-Seven : POSTSCRIPT 1960
  34. Appendix A : TWO LETTERS TO THE PRESS
  35. Appendix B : THE WHITE GODDESS
  36. INDEX
  37. About the Author
  38. Copyright

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