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The White Goddess
The White Goddess
Author: Robert Graves
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, tracks the earliest European deity, the White Goddess of Birth, Love, & Death. Far more than a long-discredited pagan deity, she is still alive, and her worship takes many strange forms both inside and outside the conventions of Western morality. Graves explores what he calls "true poetry" ...  more »
ISBN: 146964
Publication Date: 1948
Pages: 511
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Publisher: The Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
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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 deitiesthe White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Deathwho was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.


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