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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
- IN DEDICATION
- FOREWORD
- Chapter One : POETS AND GLEEMEN
- Chapter Two : THE BATTLE OF THE TREES
- Chapter Three : DOG, ROEBUCK AND LAPWING
- Chapter Four : THE WHITE GODDESS
- Chapter Five : GWION’S RIDDLE
- Chapter Six : A VISIT TO SPIRAL CASTLE
- Chapter Seven : GWION’S RIDDLE SOLVED
- Chapter Eight : HERCULES ON THE LOTUS
- Chapter Nine : GWION’S HERESY
- Chapter Ten : THE TREE ALPHABET (1)
- Chapter Eleven : THE TREE ALPHABET (2)
- Chapter Twelve : THE SONG OF AMERGIN
- Chapter Thirteen : PALAMEDES AND THE CRANES
- Chapter Fourteen : THE ROEBUCK IN THE THICKET
- Chapter Fifteen : THE SEVEN PILLARS
- Chapter Sixteen : THE HOLY UNSPEAKABLE NAME OF GOD
- Chapter Seventeen : THE LION WITH THE STEADY HAND
- Chapter Eighteen : THE BULL-FOOTED GOD
- Chapter Nineteen : THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
- Chapter Twenty : A CONVERSATION AT PAPHOS – 43 AD
- Chapter Twenty-One : THE WATERS OF STYX
- Chapter Twenty-Two : THE TRIPLE MUSE
- Chapter Twenty-Three : FABULOUS BEASTS
- Chapter Twenty-Four : THE SINGLE POETIC THEME
- Chapter Twenty-Five : WAR IN HEAVEN
- Chapter Twenty-Six : RETURN OF THE GODDESS
- Chapter Twenty-Seven : POSTSCRIPT 1960
- Appendix A : TWO LETTERS TO THE PRESS
- Appendix B : THE WHITE GODDESS
- INDEX
- About the Author
- Copyright
