The White Goddess

The White Goddess
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 516
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ISBN-10 : 0374504938
ISBN-13 : 9780374504939
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Book Synopsis The White Goddess by : Robert Graves

Download or read book The White Goddess written by Robert Graves and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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