The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (London: Faber & Faber) [Corr. 2nd ed. also issued by Faber in 1948] [US ed.= New York, Creative Age Press, 1948] The book was a major influence on the thinking of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, [22] with the latter identifying to some extent with the goddess figure herself. [23] Arguably, however, what Jacqueline Rose called "the cliché behind the myth – woman as inspiration, woman as drudge" – ultimately had a negative impact on Plath's life and work. [24] See also [ edit ] One of the things I get asked most often is what books I would recommend about Goddesses, the Divine Feminine and being a Priestess. Reading is one of my life’s great joys and so I hope this list of my Top Ten Goddess Books is of inspiration to as many of you as possible. Lindop, Grevel, 'A Crazy Book: Robert Graves and The White Goddess', PN Review, 24, no. 1 [117] (1997 Sept–Oct), 27–29 Vogel, Amber, 'Not Elizabeth to his Raleigh: Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and origins of The White Goddess', in Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship, ed. by Marjorie Stone and Judith Thompson ( University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), pp.229–239, ISBN 978-0-299-21760-0

Her lovers generally and her marriages were sprinkled with high points but ultimately she cut a very forlorn figure despite her immense fame and throughout the book I couldn’t help feeling sorry for her and wondering how different her life would have been if she had found a constant to be by her side throughout everything. The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Amended & enl. ed.[i.e. 3rd ed.] (London: Faber & Faber) [US ed.= New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1958] There was a huge self-worth deficit (a deep dark pit of low self-esteem ) gnawing away at Marilyn. This ongoing feeling of being unworthy was the underlying connection between the sad choices she made, in life and attempted love, and the sad consequences that followed each choice. The story is sad. Tragic. a b Hutton, Ronald (1993). The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy. John Wiley & Sons. p.145. ISBN 9780631189466.language of poetic myth anciently current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse, some of them dating from the Old Stone Age, and that this remains the language of true poetry... This well researched biography focuses on the "post-childhood" Marilyn Monroe. It is centered around the major movies in which she starred, her two marriages, and the many, many (I mean many) love affairs and sexual flings that connected her post-childhood years to her movie star fame and to her untimely demise. The Pomegranate 7.1, Equinox press, (Review of) "Jacob Rabinowitz, The Rotting Goddess: The Origin of the Witch in Classical Antiquity’s Demonization of Fertility Religion." In short, the life of Marilyn Monroe was sad. She sought love from lecherous men who mindlessly, like nerve endings, sought stimulation in their small, narrow "whore-Madonna" view of life. Most guys used her, then dumped her, and many then went home to their wives. Yet, Marilyn claimed to have wanted love and a family, but her erratic behavior continually drove her into the arms of the same type of guy over and over and over again: the Slam-Bam-Thank-You-Ma'am kind of guy who is trouble right from the start.

Graves and the Goddess : Essays on Robert Graves's The White Goddess, ed. by Ian Firla and Grevel Lindop (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 2003) ISBN 1-57591-055-1 The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth; edited by Grevel Lindop (Manchester: Carcanet) ISBN 1-85754-248-7 Her choices were compulsive, anyone who showed her attention or compassion in at small way was something she latched onto like a drowning woman in the middle of the ocean. British-Nigerian Okojie’s wildly weird short-story collection has at its centre the extraordinary tale of a heart-devouring (literally and metaphorically), shape-shifting sea goddess named Kiru, who comes ashore on a small island inhabited by eunuchs with the intention of falling in love. After each (disappointing) encounter with a potential lover, she eats their hearts and transforms into a different alluring woman. It’s a brilliantly strange metaphor for female beauty as an empty or hollow construct. The collection is unsettling, magical, transporting, unforgettable. This was the first biography that I ever read....I was a Freshman in high school and this book and Marilyn Monroe's story have stayed with me ever since.Please note that these Goddess books are specifically about that – Goddesses. There are many other books I could recommend about women’s spirituality, the Divine Feminine and more, but it is the Goddesses I am asked most about and so I’ve chosen to focus on those here.

Anthony Summers thoroughly investigated all the conflicting facts in the historical record (or, more accurately, what remains undestroyed from the historical record) to piece together a highly probable and compelling account of Marilyn's last day alive (including the vile involvement of RFK). Hunter, Jefferson (1983). "The Servant of Three Mistresses" (review of: Seymour-Smith, Martin, Robert Graves: His Life and Work), in The Hudson Review, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Winter, 1983–1984), pp. 733–736. Goddesses: Mysteries of The Divine Feminine by Joseph Campbell:The only book on my list written by a man and I’m pleased to say that it’s a good one. Joseph was a prolific writer on the topic of the Goddess and the ancient world giving more than twenty lectures in the 1970’s and 80’s but this book was the first time his work was bought together in one place by Safron Rossia. Joseph’s work helps us to understand the connection between the Divine Feminine and the earliest Goddesses through to ones of more recent times. I always learn more about the Goddess when I read his work.

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Maybe Marilyn herself summarized her story better than any person could -- "I'm a failure as a woman. Men expect so much of me, and I can't live up to it. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's. I can't live up to it."