Elizabeth Davis and the Library's Exhibit "Matriarchy: The Golden Age"

dc.contributor.author	Paglia, Camille
dc.date.accessioned	2016-05-24T18:24:33Z
dc.date.available	2016-05-24T18:24:33Z
dc.date.issued	1974-11-14
dc.description.abstract	"The latest galley, with its support of Elizabeth Davis' The First Sex by a quotation from Robert Graves, has simply piled one absurdity upon another. Robert Graves i s one of the most notorious misreaders of poetry of the twentieth century. His widely reproduced collection of Greek myths, for example, is infamous among classicists for its unscrupulous mingling of fictive invention with accurate scholarly detail, so that it actually is completelv useless as a reference work. His The White Goddess has many wonderful passages, but is filled with unreadable linguistic meanderings in Welsch a language about which Graves blithely admits he knows absolutely nothing! This is a work not of scholarship but of a consciously self-referential personal poet ic mythology" No Bennington feminist could continue to cite Graves as an authority once she has assimilated his outrageous assertion in The White Goddess t hat no woman can be a true poet: "Woman is not a poet: she is either a Muse or she is nothing" (p . 446)􀀑"	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11209/9703
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.title	Elizabeth Davis and the Library's Exhibit "Matriarchy: The Golden Age"	en_US

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