This shit is bonkers
>>25281336first time reading RG?
Were the Jews really cursed for denying the Triple Goddess?
>>25281336How much cucking is in this? I like Graves but he definitely had themes he gravitated to
>>25281336It's sort of funny the way RG makes young Jesus a real obnoxious smart-aleck just "innocently" asking the Rabbi to explain all these texts. He's almost as annoying as Socrates.Slightly surprised more people weren't annoyed by it since England was pretty Christian when it was published. But I guess it's just an obscure historical novel and no-one cared that much.
>>25281982>since England was pretty ChristianThe English are notoriously cynical about their religion
>>25281974If Graves' books are French fries and his femdom kink is Cajun spice, King Jesus is him shoving your face into the spice bucket and ordering you to snort it like cocaine
>>25281982>England was pretty Christian when it was publishedEngland had barely been Christian since Henry VIII.
So how much of this shit is factual?
>>25283518It’s as factual as the illustrated I Ching being the best Chinese contribution to the world
>>25283518Jesus isn't factual.
>>25281982>England was pretty Christian when it was publishednot really (at all).
>>25281336This book was also quite insane at times.
>>25283642Athene doesn't seem to be "gray-eyed" in that picture. A pity they would slip up there having taken such pains elsewhere.Slightly surprising they say "BY ROBERT GRAVES" rather than "ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK BY ROBERT GRAVES" or something.
>>25281882EVERYONE is cursed for denying the Triple Goddess.Well, not quite everyone.PEOPLE WHO, IN ROBERT GRAVES' OPINION, DID NOT DENY THE TRIPLE GODDESS— Cuchulain— John Skelton— Shakespeare— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (she was a woman so she was actually the Goddess herself or something, which made it harder for her according to RG)— John Keats— Laura Riding (as above, she was probably the Goddess too. But maybe RG changed his mind about her, haha)— Robert GravesI think that's about it.
>>25283893he also rated Ennius, W. H. Davies and Wordsworth.
>>25283897Can't remember about the first two but he definitely didn't think much of Wordsworth. He thought had a few genuine poetic impulses in his youth but he soon gave them up to be respectable.Interestingly Dylan Thomas liked most English poets but really hated Wordsworth. He thought he was a total fraud. There's a good letter he wrote in his teens to some girl just laying into him for two pages or so.
>>25283917Did a positive write-up of his daffodils in his book on English poetry. Though this was in ‘25. Can see what he means there actually. Another one: John Clare.
