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

By: Publisher: New York : Creative Age Press, 1948Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374932395
  • 9780374932398
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809.1
LOC classification:
  • PN1077 .G7
NLM classification:
  • PN 49
Contents:
Poets and Gleemen -- The Battle of the Trees -- Dog, Roebuck and 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 and 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 Converstion at Paphos -- A.D. 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.
Summary: The White Goddess, Moon-goddess, or Muse, a female diety that appears under many names and guises in myth, is the subject of this study of the language of poetry and folklore. This recurring symbol is examined from the Stone Age to Snow White.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Poets and Gleemen -- The Battle of the Trees -- Dog, Roebuck and 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 and 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 Converstion at Paphos -- A.D. 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.

The White Goddess, Moon-goddess, or Muse, a female diety that appears under many names and guises in myth, is the subject of this study of the language of poetry and folklore. This recurring symbol is examined from the Stone Age to Snow White.

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