The White Goddess
The White Goddess
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Graves, Robert. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth. New Edition. Edited by Grevel Lindop. FSG Classics series. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
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.
And while The White Goddess is what it is on the surface, a study into the poetics of folklore, it had a profound influence as one of the confluence texts inspiring the occult revival of the 1960s, and especially on wicca.
This edition incorporates 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.
Robert Graves (1895-1985), born in London, was one of the most talented, colorful, and prolific men of letters in the twentieth century. He is best known for his historical novels, I, Claudius and Claudius the God. He spent much of his life on the island of Majorca.
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