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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
Robert Graves
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Robert Graves, the late British poet and novelist, was also known for his studies of the mythological and psychological sources of poetry. With The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Graves was able to combine many of his passions into one work. While the book is so poetically written that many of the passages amount to prose poems, it is also frequently plot driven enough to feel like a novel, and it is rich with scholarly insight into the deep wells of poetry. Especially fascinating is the chapter in which Graves explores the ancient and ongoing practice of poets' invoking the muse. Graves details the practice in both the Eastern and Western literary traditions, and shows specific similarities and differences among Greek, British, and Irish tales and myths about the muse. Graves has much to offer students of history and myth, but poetry lovers will also be fascinated with The White Goddess.
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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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Ogham at its Best.......2006-04-11
There is simply too much to say about this masterpiece. Robert Graves has this special - I'd say "cardinal" - virtue to link apparently disparate fields into one deep and yes, poetical view.
I started to study Robert Graves for a particular purpose, namely for his unique interpretation of the Pelasgian Myth of Creation. I then found his case for the blank ogham to be compelling. At last, I tried to see the whole wood behind, and in spite of so many exquisite sacred trees.
And it is the poetical style of Robert Graves which made it possible. A Great Leap Forward from the usual nonsense concerning structural approaches and so on. Highly recommended.
in the search of the buck.......2006-01-25
this is the best book i readed. i made it by the portuguese translation, but it's all there. for the studants of paganism, wicca, witchcraft and old religions, it is a must. the history and the links among centuries, folks and cultures, since the stone ages. in ours days, is an outrage to call someone a poet. the inspirations of the fillis, the ollaves, the bards and menestrels are hughest than we can imagine. the gwion riddling poesy are a surprising lifting up the veils! that book must be the first one, to who wants realize the pagan path.
Betwixt Heaven & Hell "The White Goddess" once ruled!.......2005-12-06
"The White Goddess," at first, filled me with AWE. In the second READ I walked a tightrope without a NET underneath. The third & fourth READ gave me a definite sense that Robert Graves had written IT in a 'fevered flaw' via an Energy-deep within-coverting HIM...a thing the ancient Bards & Ollaves were surely wary of!! It seemed as though SOMETHING emerged wanting to put Prison Bars around the 'White Goddess' and Graves being an accomplished Scholar, Writer & Poet, plus, "a ladies Man" became IT's channel. For him, SHE became a Sexual Siren, his obsession, his MUSE...a conduit for his own Illusions...like a Drug to sooth his 'Fevered Brow!! Strangely, it seemed like a Prescripted GAME where during THIS milieu, the Triplet Team Goddess: Daughter-Mother-Crone arrived BEING promptly relegated to Bed, Kitchen & Kindercare...while his Favored FANCY...the Ivory skinned, red haired, light-eyed Cerridwen remained his Pirated Possession!!
To his CREDIT, however, HE saw & understood the 'STEALING' of her Gifts & Talents-her Knowledge of Letters, Numbers & Words-her Brilliant Intellect-her Logic & Creativity & her Prime Importance to Europe's Emergence. Indeed, he shares the Power Plays that finally TOPPLED "The White Goddess" from her Throne & how the(Intrusion?) of an imported middle eastern GOD became her Assassin!! He writes HOW this Intrusion denigrated the Elder Euros from themselves...from their Gnostic Guts...from the machinery of their Bodies-always, before, accessing IT like a computer & understanding IT's Robotics DOWN to their "figuring" FINGERS!! Yes, Graves appreciated this mastery-not turning UP his nose at the MAGIC of such animus abilities...very insightful for a learned Scholar & Poet. He also shares the myriad NAMES of Europe's olden Gods & Goddesses...their battles & exploits...their Knowledge of themselves within the WEB, plus, their telepathic ties to Nature, Plants & TREES as Dendron Diviners. For all the 'if's, ands & buts' in "The White Goddess" Robert Graves opened a DOOR to the everyday people about the Elder Euros with his poetic prowess. He emphased that when Europe lost it's Goddess IT, also, lost a PART of whom & what THEY truly were...for THEY lost their Grimoad GOD, as well!!
In reality, "The White Goddess" had always lived a Parthenogenic PATH through her PSYCHE as a Wise Weaver of Words. She churned & charmed the CAULDRON of Creation from WITHIN her own Being & could "SEER" the Dimensions of Dream within SPACE & TIME. She did not Pander her Power, staying firm in her FEET, concise & conceptual in her understanding that the WEB could become a TRAP...tacky, tricky & tarnished...imprisoning ONE. She KNEW that Existence held Eternity beyond Life & Death & never became caught in Dramatic Dogma. She guided from the Brain of her right HAND & managed from the Gut of left HAND...always influencing ONE's inner identity as an ISLAND, yet, a pivotal part of their 'Simulating Surroundings'.
So.o.o, READ "The White Goddess" with an EVEN Eye as you muse within about the Immortal Grimoire Goddess. Consider what SHE knew about Fate, Fame & Fortune; that Destiny reflected ONES Deeds &, in the END, there is always a Beginning...&, maybe, Robert von Ranke Graves is finding his Grimoad GOD, within, apologizing to "The White Goddess" about such mistaken ideas about HER morality & having Cinematic Conversations about this 'Tarnal' Paradise(Webster's-circular enclosure; a walled Garden) of Earth where ONE must walk the Thin Blue Line..."betwixt" Heaven & Hell!?
An insightful read.......2005-11-10
I think a lot of people have missed the point of this book. Robert Graves was a poet, not a historian or an expert on Celtic mythology. The subtitle for The White Goddess is "A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth." He was attempting to interpret the ancient poems. While I did not always agree with his interpretations, I found them to be quite intriguing.
Ancient poets were like the rock stars of today. They kept the history of the people, and may have been trying to hide secret information in their poetry that these ancient people did not want falling into the wrong hands. Mr. Graves was trying to break these secret codes.
I didn't pay too much attention to what Mr. Graves was saying about the Celtic Ogham, but more about the different faces of the Goddess, the lesser known parts of Greek mythology, and the different properties of trees as they related to the ancient people. Ancient people lived their lives shrouded in superstition, harboring a great respect for the earth, something we in this modern age of self-destruction, would do well to learn from.
At times, Mr. Graves jumped around too much for my taste, but I still found this to be a very interesting book. Whether you believe the Celts originated in Greece or not, this is still a book filled with important poetic insight.
Interesting read.......2005-11-04
I came to this book intrigued by both its links to poetry and the ogham. I realize it is not considered a standard text for Druids, and perhaps it shouldn't be as Graves' interpretations of the Ogham, at least, are flawed as much more Ogham scholarship has been accomplished since he first wrote this book.
However, the book reads like a dream. Graves' called himself a poet first and foremost and this shows in the twiting narrative he spins. His interpretation of the Cad Goddeau (Battle of the Trees) is interesting whether I accept it or not.
In a way, any student of Druidry should read this book simply for the history of it, as well as to understand his lasting influence on Celtic Paganism.
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The White Goddess
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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
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- fascinating look into the creative life
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Robert Graves and the White Goddess: 1940-1985
Richard Perceval Graves
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If this long, concluding volume to Richard Perceval Graves' three-volume biography of the poet, novelist, and mythologist Robert Graves lacks the savor and drama of the second volume, it is only because the relatively sedate life of an aged, lionized poet can be relatively tame reading. Robert Graves, the author's uncle, had by the beginning of World War II, at age 45, settled into life with Beryl Hodge, his second wife. After the war, they took up residence in Majorca, where he was visited by an unending succession of disciples and young women whom Graves adopted as lovers and muses. It was on Majorca that Graves produced The White Goddess, his reworking of Celtic and pre-Greek mythology, surely one of the strangest Great Books ever written, and it is the tale of the poet's growing obsession with the triple-moon goddess, dubbed Cerridwen, that takes up much of this book.
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The final years of the best-selling author of GOODBYE TO ALL THAT and I,CLAUDIUS
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fascinating look into the creative life.......2001-06-13
The third book on the life of poet and novelist Robert Graves is the story of his achievement of great public success, and then what? So many poets have achieved greatness only to spend the rest of their lives in a hapless chase to regain it. Graves' unique pursuit of his path should be a salutory example to all that it need not be so. Along the way we also find out about his new muses and other new relationships both with his growing family as well as with the world. Particularly interesting are his lectures and synopses of his remarks on other poets including Lawrence, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Auden, Thomas and Byron, most of whom earned his displeasure to a greater or lesser degree. There are also amusing vignettes such as Graves' introducing J.R.R. Tolkien to Ava Gardner when neither one had ever heard of the other. Although Graves' last decade is almost too sad and his pursuit of younger women sometimes a bit pathetic, overall it is always a moving, intriguing and enjoyable story. The second volume of this work does not seem to be on Amazon, which I find a horrible omission.
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The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
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Turn the book up side down.......2007-04-18
Turn the book upside down.
Look at all the images.
Are they all still female?
Not your Mother's Feminist's Tract.......2007-03-30
Two Depth Psychologists provide a comprehensive, if speculative, chronological perspective of the nature of mankind's relationship with the metaphysical, through gender fidelity. Each chapter builds on premises developed by preceding chapters (so if your interested in using this as a resource for a particular time period, it is beneficial to read the preceding chapters as well.) This is less a feminist tract than an assay about non-Christian antecedents to Marian idolization and modern reconciliation with societal (past and present) currents. Though written in easily accessible language, with 688 pages of text and illustrations, the non-academic may find themselves bogged down somewhere in the middle. All illustrations are in black-and-white (if color is a consideration in your research, you may need to consult other resources for better illustrations.)
How did things get to be the way they are?.......2007-02-21
A remarkable book that every woman should read .
It will help you to understand that there was something other in human history besides conquest , war, and various forms of domination of the weak by the strong. Before the Patriarchy there was a period of 25 thousand years of much progress and development without huge wars.
I gained an understanding of what has happened to our idea of ourselves and the way it has shaped our actions.
The book is not a polemic like this review , it is a wonderfully written , considered history of the Godess archtype . It`s profusely illustrated and documented . A great bibliography is provided for further reading
One of the Best Books Available on the Goddess.......2006-08-11
Simply put, this is one of the best books out there on the Many-Named Goddess. The two authors spent over ten years researching and writing this book and it shows. The book traces the evolution of the Divine Feminine from Inanna, to Ishtar, to Isis, to Gaia, to Athena, to Aphrodite, to Cybele, to Sophia and more. Excellent resource for both experts and amateurs.
As for the blissfully ignorant reviewer who states that matriarchical cultures are feminist pseudo-history, I challenge them to find one reputable scholar/archaeologist who believes otherwise. (By 'reputable scholar/archaeologist' I mean someone who isn't going to try to convince me that God made the world in six literal days...)
Very good Book.......2006-03-09
This book is very good if you need to know about the evolution of the Myth of the Goddes.
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- A book of beauty and eternal wisdom
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The Codex of Love is a powerful spiritual revelation from the Goddess through an angel known as the White Dove. The Codex of Love presents an elegant and deceptively simple message on a life filled with love and ecstasy. It opens our hearts with its captivating prose and gives us the keys to a new loving and peaceful world. Found within these pages of wisdom are gentle reminders of how to live in harmony and of the importance of honoring and respecting one another with Divine love. A tantalizing journey of discovery awaits those called to explore and uncover the hidden meanings of the Goddess's own Bible. Whispers of rituals and Goddess mysteries beckon from between the lines. Quiet meditation on the book can yield surprising revelations from the Divine, so enter the Temple of Ishtar and read the ancient wisdom found in Her Codex of Love.
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A book of beauty and eternal wisdom.......2006-08-23
The Codex of love is destined to take it place among the great holy works of history.
Found in its the pages are the keys to life's many mysteries and how they can be unlocked. Indeed the Codex's teachings not only tell us how to find true love, but how to keep it. Within its sublime passages is the knowledge of how one should live and let live in this world and how each one of us can find peace and connection with the DIVINE.
The holy wisdom found in this book can only be described as the missing teachings of Heaven.
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WHITE GODDESS : A HISTORICAL GRAMMAR OF POETIC MYTH
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