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Copyright © 1948, 1952 by Robert Graves
Copyright © 1997 by The Trustees of the Robert Graves Trust
Introduction and editorial material copyright © 1997 by Grevel Lindop
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Originally published in 1948 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain
Second edition published in 1948 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain
Third edition, amended and enlarged, published in 1952 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain
Fourth edition, edited by Grevel Lindop, published in 1997 by Carcanet Press, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This paperback edition, 2013
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Graves, Robert, 1895–1985.
The white goddess: a historical grammar of poetic myth / Robert Graves; edited by Grevel Lindop.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-374-28933-1 (pbk.)
1. Poetry. 2. Mythology. 3. Welsh poetry—History and criticism. I. Lindop, Grevel, 1948– II. Title.
PN1077 .G7 2013
809.1—dc23
2013022013
eISBN 9780374710385
First eBook edition: September 2013