Oddly enough at one graduate school I attended, I saw some of the real scholarship on many of the subjects Graves fantasizes about in the White Goddess and in certain of the notes in his Greek Myths, and it's pretty clear that anything he says in either place about undocumented ancient religion must be taken with greatest caution. Surely his vapors inspired him, and some of his poems are just real fine, but if I had to spend ten years on a desert island with a poet, I'd rather listen to Yeats go on about his Vision, than Graves go on about his Goddess speculations. By the way, read Good-Bye To All That, Count Belisarius, and, of course, the Claudius duo.
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