(Ebook) The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves; Grevel Lindop (ed.) ISBN 9780374289331, 9780571174256, 0374289336, 0571174256, B00C74YQW0

(Ebook) The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves; Grevel Lindop (ed.) ISBN 9780374289331, 9780571174256, 0374289336, 0571174256, B00C74YQW0

The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time.This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion, and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and also an intensely personal document in which Graves explores the sources of his own inspiration and, as he believed, all true poetry.Incorporating all of Graves's final revisions, his replies to two of the original reviewers, and an essay describing the months of illumination in which The White Goddess was written, this is the definitive edition of one of the most influential books of our time.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.Robert Graves (1895-1985), born in London, was one of the most talented, colorful, and prolific men of letters in the 20th century, best known for his historical novel I, Claudius. He spent much of his life on the Spanish island of Mallorca.Publishing history: 1st ed., 1948; 2nd ed. 1952; 3rd ed. 1961/1966; new (4th) ed. 1997/1999; e-book "2nd ed." of the new (4th ed.) released in 2010 (and in another format 2013), but not actually a revision, just an electronic format re-release. Note: This particular copy has been edited to fix the problem of the extensive block quotations having a tiny font and being almost unreadable, and to fix the incorrect cover and metadata that were present on a previous upload.