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Robert Graves.
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth; amended and enlarged edition.
Published London: Faber and Faber, 12th impression (previously issued 1961; original edn. was 1948).
ISBN 0571069614;
ISBN-13 9780571069613.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, reading.
Size: 126x197x27mm.
Page count: 511pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks a bit battered, some marks and creases on the covers and spine, a bit of wear on the edges with the corners starting to fray; printed on low-grade paper, so pages yellowed with age; at least 3 pages have their corners turned over as place-markers, and at least 2 pages have some pencilled marking.

This item £6.00
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[Farrar Strauss edn. in print at $18.00]
Weight without packaging: 334g.

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No particular medieval emphasis, but incorporates frequent medieval material.

Contents: Poets & gleemen; Battle of the trees; Dog, roebuck & lapwing; The white goddess; Gwion's riddle; Visit to Spiral Castle; Gwion's riddle solved; Hercules on the lotus; Gwion's heresy; The tree-alphabet; Song of Amergin; Palamedes & the cranes; The roebuck in the thicket; The 7 pillars; The holy unspeakable name of God; The lion with the steady hand; The bull-footed god; Number of the beast; Conversation at Paphos — AD 43; Waters of the Styx; The triple muse; Fabulous beasts; The single poetic theme; War in heaven; Return of the goddess.
Appendix: Postscript, 1960.

Illustrations: 14 monochrome diagrams
Maps & plans: no

Notes: occasional, at foot of page
Tables: 8
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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