The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Amended and Enlarged Edition
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The White Goddessis perhaps the finest of Graves' works on the psychological & mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic & religious scholarship, he explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love & Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure & mysterious power of "pure poetry" & its peculiar & mythic language.
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Foreword
Poets & gleemen
The battle of the trees
Dog, roebuck & 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 & 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-AD 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
Index
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