all pondering the question of what it means to encounter something that remains beyond our comprehension in a world where all information and knowledge seem to be readily available

eine neue Poetik und Technik zur Wissensorganisation zu erschaffen

Michael Kleber-Diggs

Gordon Wasson

In November 1974

The White Goddess Abney Park Cemetery all pondering the question ofThis labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Gravess vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar poets quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and also an intensely personal document in which Graves explored the sources of his own inspiration