The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

FOREWORD 3 Chapter One POETS AND GLEEMEN 10 Chapter Two THE BATTLE OF THE TREES 20 Chapter Three DOG, ROEBUCK AND LAPWING 42 Chapter Four THE WHITE GODDESS 54 Chapter Five GWION'S RIDDLE 67 Chapter Six A VISIT TO SPIRAL CASTLE 90 Chapter Seven GWION'S RIDDLE SOLVED 106 Chapter Eight HERCULES ON THE LOTUS 116 Chapter Nine GWION'S HERESY 133 Chapter Ten THE TREE ALPHABET (i) 158 Chapter Eleven THE TREE ALPHABET (2) 182 Chapter Twelve THE SONG OF AMERGIN 198 Chapter Thirteen PALAMEDES AND THE CRANES 216 Chapter Fourteen THE ROEBUCK IN THE THICKET 238 Chapter Fifteen THE SEVEN PILLARS 252 Chapter Sixteen THE HOLY UNSPEAKABLE NAME OF GOD 265 Chapter Seventeen THE LION WITH THE STEADY HAND 294 Chapter Eighteen THE BULL-FOOTED GOD 307 Chapter Nineteen THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST 335 Chapter Twenty A CONVERSATION AT PAPHOS—A.D. 43 342 Chapter Twenty-One THE WATERS OF STYX 357 Chapter Twenty-Two THE TRIPLE MUSE 376 Chapter Twenty-Three FABULOUS BEASTS 402 Chapter Twenty-Four THE SINGLE POETIC THEME 417 Chapter Twenty-Five WAR IN HEAVEN 437 Chapter Twenty-Six RETURN OF THE GODDESS 469 Chapter Twenty-Seven POSTSCRIPT 1960 483