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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 deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who 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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Product Description

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 deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155452 in Books
• Published on: 1966-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Amazon.com Review
Robert Graves, the late British poet and novelist, was also known for his studies of the mythological and psychological sources of poetry. With The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Graves was able to combine many of his passions into one work. While the book is so poetically written that many of the passages amount to prose poems, it is also frequently plot driven enough to feel like a novel, and it is rich with scholarly insight into the deep wells of poetry. Especially fascinating is the chapter in which Graves explores the ancient and ongoing practice of poets' invoking the muse. Graves details the practice in both the Eastern and Western literary traditions, and shows specific similarities and differences among Greek, British, and Irish tales and myths about the muse. Graves has much to offer students of history and myth, but poetry lovers will also be fascinated with The White Goddess.

About the Author
Robert Graves (1895-1985), born in London, was one of the most talented, colorful, and prolific men of letters in the twentieth century. He is best known for his historical novels, I, Claudius and Claudius the God. He spent much of his life on the island of Majorca.

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Customer Reviews

He doesn't back up any of his hypotheses
If you want a true book on Celtic myth and not some made up, undocumented treatise of some guys imagination then do NOT buy this book. Buy The Gaelic Otherworld, or the Carmina Gadelica, or Irish Bardic Poetry by Bergin. Buy anything but this book because you WON'T find the truth that you're seeking in it's pages.

My Personal Opinion
This is a very difficult book to read..and it is meant to be. I believe it needs to be read 2 or 3 times to really grasp the whole thing. But, this I can guarantee:you will discover many things that you never even dreamed existed. This book is for the scholar and the amature alike.
Robert Graves considered himself a Poet first and foremost, but wrote prose to pay the bills!!! The kind of poetry this book deals with is ancient.Originally it was sung by Bards primarily in the Celtic world, but dated back to the Ancients- Hebrew, Aramaic,Egyption, Greek,Pelasgian Minoan, Myceanean and eventually reaching the British Isles where it was learned in Insular and Continental Gaelic, all using secret and sacred means to pass it on. For the most part it was learned by rote, or memory, long before being written down. This is a subject that is difficult to grasp...but once fully understood leads to many new/old ideas,it is one of the best books I have ever read [and I have read ALOT]. It is a must read for those studying comparative religion, Mythology, Ancient Civilizations, Etymology, the Goddess [and later Gods] Paganism, Wicca, etc.I cherish it so much I have 2 copies!!! Blessed Be.

in the search of the buck
this is the best book i readed. i made it by the portuguese translation, but it's all there. for the studants of paganism, wicca, witchcraft and old religions, it is a must. the history and the links among centuries, folks and cultures, since the stone ages. in ours days, is an outrage to call someone a poet. the inspirations of the fillis, the ollaves, the bards and menestrels are hughest than we can imagine. the gwion riddling poesy are a surprising lifting up the veils! that book must be the first one, to who wants realize the pagan path.