The white goddess
a historical grammar of poetic myth
by Robert Graves · first published 1920
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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. In
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on “Ask HN: What is the most mind blowing book you've ever read?” ↗I tried to read The White Goddess about a year or two ago, and I gave up midway through. As much as I like Robert Graves, that book exists better in its ideas than its execution: the prose itself read more like a brain-dump by a clearly…
on “Books That Changed How I Hear Music” ↗How so? Please expand. They sum up as follows: "Aside from a few devotees of the White Goddess, no one rates Graves as a prophet these days, but his books, some of them at least, are too good to be left “lying about.” The best of them should be picked up and read. We should be grateful that it’s…
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