The White Goddess
Lee Gilmore writes of synchronistic experiences involving Robert Graves' "historical grammar of poetic myth," The White Goddess.
First published in 1948, it was for many people a "gateway book" to Goddess religion--it certainly was that for me. (Maybe we should devote a Pagan Studies session to it.)
Lee also reports on her own experiences at this year's AAR-SBL.
Tags: White Goddess, Robert Graves
Lee Gilmore writes of synchronistic experiences involving Robert Graves' "historical grammar of poetic myth," The White Goddess.
First published in 1948, it was for many people a "gateway book" to Goddess religion--it certainly was that for me. (Maybe we should devote a Pagan Studies session to it.)
Lee also reports on her own experiences at this year's AAR-SBL.
Tags: White Goddess, Robert Graves
posted by Chas S. Clifton at 4:20 PM Permalink
1 Comments:
Glad you like the story. Strange, a bit, to have this bit of my personal mythology (true story that it is) perused by as many eyeballs as I presume read here (as opposed to my little play-pen, as I think of my livejournal), but c'est la blog. I suddenly have 4 or 5 new readers ("friends" in lj parlance), so it really must be a good story!
And maybe we should have a session not just on the White Goddess, but on other "gateway books." Mine were Drawing Down the Moon & Spiral Dance, as I suspect was the case for many in my generation. How to make that session analytical, useful, or provocative escapes me just now, but if I think of anything I'll let you know...
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