User:Charles Matthews/Graves

Citations for The White Goddess

Jonas Athraw - Thomas Boreman - Gaston Joudet - Sion Kent - Jean-Baptiste Felix Lajard - William Oscar Emil Oesterley - Gustav Parthey - Patrick Hume of Polwarth (Polwart) - Charles Squire

There are some problematic identifications.

• G. F. Kendrick, writer on Stonehenge, may be T. D. Kendrick
• Langbaine, correspondent of James Ussher, is called an Irish antiquarian, but Gerard Langbaine the elder seems the most likely. Annotating and indexing the book is not exactly easy, since Graves was no scholar in the conventional sense. This one could be solved by access to Richard Parr's Life of Ussher; and Graves presumably got this reference to the so-called "Bodleian alphabets" through a reference in Charles O'Conor to Langbaine. The alphabet(s) seem to have been published by George Hickes (and may be faked, in the end supporting Graves's comment that they were a joke on the Saxons). Bodleian MS., N. E. D. ii. 19, (Auct. F. 32,) is the reference given in [1] (J. O. Westwood). One could write a whole wiki about Graves's reading, it seems.