The white goddess
Subtitle: a historical grammar of poetic myth
By: Robert Graves
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Noonday Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780374504939
Subjects: Mythology; Welsh poetry; Poetry; History and criticism
Description: Examines the language of ancient Celtic and Mediterranean poetic myths, probing the role of the all-encompassing female figure, the White Goddess, in the earliest forms of poetry.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Poets and gleemen; title: The battle of the trees; title: Dog, roebuck and lapwing; title: The white goddess; title: Gwion's riddle; title: A visit to spiral castle; title: Gwion's riddle solved; title: Hercules on the lotus; title: Gwion's heresy; title: The tree-alphabet (1); title: The tree-alphabet (2); title: The song of Amergin; title: Palamedes and the cranes; title: The roebuck in the thicket; title: The seven pillars; title: The holy unspeakable name of god; title: The lion with the steady hand; title: The bull-footed god; title: The number of the beast; title: A conservation at Paphos; title: A.D. 43; title: The waters of the styx; title: The triple muse; title: Fabulous beasts; title: The single poetic theme; title: War in heaven; title: The return of the goddess; title: Postscript 1960.