Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WATCH THE NORTH WIND RISE (290 pp.) -Robert Graves-Creative Age ($3).
Britain's Robert Graves is one literary campaigner against God who refuses to find his compensation in Communism, Existentialism, or any other materialistic system. In eccentric loneliness, Graves worships his own spectacular deity-a lady known as the White Goddess, whom he declares to be the true Godhead and...
Graves was not obsessed with Her when he wrote his earlier poems and historical novels (I, Claudius, Sergeant Lamb's America). But last year he published an erudite mythological study of Her nature and origins (The White Goddess-TIME, Sept. 6) which packed such a punch that even poised...
Goodbye to All That. But the poets have gone on with their own private concerns, and the Christian has calmly continued to worship Christ-furiously described by pagan Poet Graves as
So, in his new novel, Graves has brusquely abandoned a world that is so out of step with him and has created a Utopia-a world named New Crete, where, after Christianity has been destroyed by world wars, man has at last recognized the Goddess. The hero of it all...