Julie,
I think you're overstating the case against Graves a little bit, but he's certainly guilty. The Laura Riding stuff is troubling... but perhaps one was as unbalanced as the other. I'd hate to be a referee in that particular situation... I think I'd likely go nuts myself.
I did, though, find the book valuable. It was my first approach to the triple goddess, a kind of springboard to other things. It also helped me call into question some of the patriarchal religious assumptions I'd been taught in my previous schooling.
As for the views of some others, well, there's so much blasphemy about the Muse it's hard to even know where to start. No argument I could make could serve Her anyway, She seems to have little interest in such things. She just wants me to write, and I wrote a halfway decent poem this afternoon, and three others got published today, so She's happy, I think. In the morning, she'll be on my case again, but for tonight, my offerings seem to have pleased her.
Best,
Bill
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