Knowing Your Ghosts: Robert Graves and the Dark Side of the Moon

Book 'Em, Jan O

The poet, playwright and combat veteran of The Great War who was left for dead, Robert Graves, is known for a great body of work.  My favourite, though, is a book called The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth.

In it, he posits that there are two kinds of knowing:  solar (think of Apollo as the sun god of myth) which is material, scientific, mathematics, “practical,” grounded, the out in the open  – and associated with patriarchal religion.   The other knowledg...