The White Goddess
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The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth is a book-length essay on the nature of poetic myth-making by the English writer Robert Graves. First published in 1948, it is based on earlier a
First US edition
Laura Riding
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Laura Riding Jackson, best known as Laura Riding, was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.
The White Goddess
…Davies references Graves ideas from The White Goddess favorably in his book Europe: A History. According to Graves's biographer Richard Perceval Graves, Laura Riding played a crucial role in the development of Graves's thoughts when writing The White Goddess, despite the fact the two were estranged at that point…
Riding's house, on the Mueller campus of Indian River State College in Vero Beach.