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050			_aPN 1077 .G73 1961
100			_aGraves, Robert _eauthor
245		4	_aThe White Goddess : _ba historical grammar of poetic myth / _cRobert Graves
260			_aLondon, United Kingdom : _bFaber and Faber, _cc1961
300			_a511 pages ; _c20 cm.
504			_aIncludes index.
505			_aPoets 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
520			_aA 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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