By Robert Graves
The definitive version of 1 of the extra remarkable and influential books of our time
This labyrinthine and awesome e-book, first released greater than sixty years in the past, used to be the result of Robert Graves's sizeable interpreting and curious learn into unusual territories of folklore, mythology, faith, and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it's a scholar-poet's quest for the that means of eu myths, a polemic in regards to the kinfolk among guy and lady, and in addition an intensely own record within which Graves explores the assets of his personal proposal and, as he believed, all actual poetry.
Incorporating all of Graves's ultimate revisions, his replies to 2 of the unique reviewers, and an essay describing the months of illumination within which The White Goddess was written, this is often the definitive variation of 1 of the main influential books of our time.
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