The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (4th edition)

Robert Graves (ed Grevel Lindop)

This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published fifty years ago, was the outcome of 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...