Some Speculations on Literature, History and Religion

, by Graves, Robert

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ISBN: 9781857542820 | 1857542827
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Copyright: 1/1/2001

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Introduction

vii

Acknowledgements

xiv

LITERATURE

From On English Poetry: Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of this Art, from Evidence Mainly Subjective (1922)

Definitions

(1)

Poetry and Primitive Magic

(1)

The Daffodils

(2)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

(2)

The Classic and Romantic Ideas

(2)

Two Heresies

(1)

From Poetic Unreason and Other Studies (1925)

The Tempest: and Analysis

(21)

A Theory of Consciousness

(5)

Jekyll and Hyde

(12)

The Illogical Element in Poetry

(12)

Classical and Romantic

(10)

Poetic Genius

(6)

Sensory Vehicles of Poetic Thought

(7)

Kynge Arthur Is Nat Dede

(5)

Don't Fidget, Young Man!

(5)

Preface to a Reading of Poems

(7)

The Case for Xanthippe

102

(7)

Nine Hundred Iron Chariots

109

(15)

The Word `Romantic'

124

(11)

HISTORY

Introduction to the Lives of the Roman Empresses

135

(7)

The Cult of Tolerance

142

(5)

It Happened in 537 AD

147

(3)

It Happened in 513 BC

150

(3)

The Search for Thomas Atkins

153

(5)

It Was a Stable World

158

(8)

Sovereign Rights in Palestine

166

(5)

Pharaoh's Chariot Wheels

171

(16)

The Cultured Romans

187

(5)

What Food the Centaurs Ate

192

(20)

Was Benedict Arnold a Traitor?

212

(12)

The Fifth Column at Troy

224

(9)

What Was that War Like, Sir?

233

(6)

The Kaiser's War

239

(9)

Five Score and Six Years Ago

248

(10)

The Greek Tradition

258

(3)

Forgotten Loyalists

261

(7)

Genius

268

(15)

RELIGION

Answer to a Religious Questionnaire

283

(4)

The Language of Myth

287

(14)

Discoveries in Greek Mythology

301

(14)

Greek Myths and Pseudo Myths

315

(20)

The Uses of Superstition

335

(10)

Reincarnation

345

(10)

Goddesses and Obosoms

355

(8)

The Bible in Europe

363

(24)

Paul's Thorn

387

(4)

Sources

391

(3)

A Listing of Robert Graves's Essay Collections

394

(2)

Index

396

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