The White Goddess by Robert Graves
GRAVES, Robert. The White Goddess. A Historical Gramma of Poetic Myth. London, Faber and Faber, [1948].
First edition of this groundbreaking study of mythology and myth-making from an idiosyncratic perspective.
Robert Graves’ labyrinthine and poetic work delves into the myths, magic, and ancient religions of Europe, with a particular focus on the White Goddess, a figure he proposes exists under various guises of mother-goddesses from different pagan religions. The White Goddess is an intensely personal document in which Graves explores the sources of his own inspiration and, as he believed, the essence of all true poetry.
Quarto, pp. 430; very good in publisher’s blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine, with the yellow dust-jacket, printed in black and red (some light foxing to text block, endpapers, and dust jacket; spine sunned, jacket slightly sunned with a few tiny nicks).
GRAVES, Robert. The White Goddess. A Historical Gramma of Poetic Myth. London, Faber and Faber, [1948].
First edition of this groundbreaking study of mythology and myth-making from an idiosyncratic perspective.
Robert Graves’ labyrinthine and poetic work delves into the myths, magic, and ancient religions of Europe, with a particular focus on the White Goddess, a figure he proposes exists under various guises of mother-goddesses from different pagan religions. The White Goddess is an intensely personal document in which Graves explores the sources of his own inspiration and, as he believed, the essence of all true poetry.
Quarto, pp. 430; very good in publisher’s blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine, with the yellow dust-jacket, printed in black and red (some light foxing to text block, endpapers, and dust jacket; spine sunned, jacket slightly sunned with a few tiny nicks).
GRAVES, Robert. The White Goddess. A Historical Gramma of Poetic Myth. London, Faber and Faber, [1948].
First edition of this groundbreaking study of mythology and myth-making from an idiosyncratic perspective.
Robert Graves’ labyrinthine and poetic work delves into the myths, magic, and ancient religions of Europe, with a particular focus on the White Goddess, a figure he proposes exists under various guises of mother-goddesses from different pagan religions. The White Goddess is an intensely personal document in which Graves explores the sources of his own inspiration and, as he believed, the essence of all true poetry.
Quarto, pp. 430; very good in publisher’s blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine, with the yellow dust-jacket, printed in black and red (some light foxing to text block, endpapers, and dust jacket; spine sunned, jacket slightly sunned with a few tiny nicks).