Kurzbeschreibung
An authorised and revised edition of a classic text on English, Welsh and classical poetry first published fifty years ago. Incorporates corrections prepared by Graves but never before published, and a substantial new introduction. Subtitled }A Historical Grammar Of Poetic Myth{.
Synopsis
A work first published in 1948 in which Graves argues that the language of poetic myth current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse - some dating from the Old Stone Age.