A164 SOME SPECULATIONS ON LITERATURE, HISTORY AND RELIGION [2000]:

First edition:

[seven lines within within a swelled rule cartouche:] Robert | Graves | SOME SPECULATIONS | ON LITERATURE, HISTORY | AND RELIGION | [rule] Edited by Patrick Quinn | CARCANET

Collation: 208 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | Some Speculations on Literature, | History and Religion; p. [ii] list of titles in Carcanet’s Robert Graves Programme; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] edition, publisher’s, copyright, BL cataloguing, Arts Council of England assistance and printer’s notices; pp.[v] – [vi] Contents; pp. [vii] viii- xiii Introduction; p. [xiv] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; p. [1] section head; p. [2] blank; pp. [3] 4-390 text, with pp. [12, 33, 38, 50, 62, 72, 78, 85, 90, 95, 102, 109, 124, 133, 135, 142, 147, 150, 153, 158, 166, 171, 187, 192, 212, 224, 233, 239, 248, 258, 261, 268, 281, 283, 287, 301, 315, 334, 244, 355, 363, 387] being unnumbered, pp. [133] and [281] being section heads and pp. [134, 280, 282] being blank; pp. [391] 392-393 Sources; pp. [394] 395 A Listing of Graves’s Essay Collections; pp. [396] 397-402 Index.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 2.9/ 3.6 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed in pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves [in three lines:] SOME SPECULATIONS ON | LITERATURE, HISTORY AND RELIGION | Edited by Patrick Quinn | [upright, at foot:] CARCANET

Price: £35.00. Number of copies: undisclosed. Published 25 August 2000 in white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale green, green and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

Contents: Introduction – Acknowledgements – LITERATURE: From On English Poetry: Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of this Art, from Evidence Mainly Subjective (1922): Definitions – Poetry and Primitive Magic – The Daffodils – La Belle Dame Sans Merci – The Classic and Romantic Ideas – Two Heresies – From Poetic Unreason and Other Studies (1925): The Tempest: an Analysis – A Theory of Consciousness – Jekyll and Hyde – The Illogical Element in Poetry – Classical and Romantic – Poetic Genius – Sensory Vehicles of Poetic Thought– Kynge Arthur Is Nat Dede – Don’t Fidget, Young Man! – Preface to a Reading of Poems – The Case for Xanthippe – Nine Hundred Iron Chariots – The Word ‘Romantic’ – HISTORY: Introduction to the Lives of the Roman Empresses – The Cult of Tolerance – It Happened in 537 AD – It Happened in 513 BC – The Search for Thomas Atkins – It Was a Stable World – Sovereign Rights in Palestine – Pharaoh’s Chariot Wheels – The Cultured Romans – What Food the Centaurs Ate – Was Benedict Arnold a Traitor? – The Fifth Column at Troy – What Was That War Like, Sir? – The Kaiser’s War – Five Score and Six Years Ago – The Greek Tradition – Forgotten Loyalists – Genius – RELIGION: Answer to a Religious Questionnaire – The Language of Myth – Discoveries in Greek Mythology – Greek Myths and Pseudo Myths – The Uses of Superstition – Reincarnation – Goddesses and Obosoms – The Bible in Europe – Paul’s Thorn – Sources – A Listing of Robert Graves’s Essay Collections – Index