The White Goddess : a historical grammar of poetic myth / Robert Graves

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : Faber and Faber, c1961Description: 511 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 571069614
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 1077 .G73 1961
Contents:
Poets and Gleemen -- The Battle of the trees -- Dog, Roebuck and Lapwing -- The White goddess -- Geion'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 -- Palamede and the crane -- 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 conversation at Paphos - A.D. 43 -- The Waters of the Styx -- The Triple muse -- Fabulous beasts -- The Single poetic theme -- The Return of the goddess -- Postscript 1960
Summary: A work first published in 1948 in which Graves argues that the language of poetic myth current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse - some dating from the Old Stone Age.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation General Education GC PN 1077 .G73 1961 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000016126

Includes index.

Poets and Gleemen -- The Battle of the trees -- Dog, Roebuck and Lapwing -- The White goddess -- Geion'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 -- Palamede and the crane -- 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 conversation at Paphos - A.D. 43 -- The Waters of the Styx -- The Triple muse -- Fabulous beasts -- The Single poetic theme -- The Return of the goddess -- Postscript 1960

A work first published in 1948 in which Graves argues that the language of poetic myth current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse - some dating from the Old Stone Age.

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