Editing The White Goddess (section)

==Literary influences==
The book was a major influence on the thinking of the poets [[Ted Hughes]] and [[Sylvia Plath]],<ref>J. Rose, ''The Haunting of Sylvia Plath'' (1991) p. 150</ref> with the latter identifying to some extent with the goddess figure herself.<ref>J. Kroll, ''Chapters in a Mythology'' (2007) pp. 42–6 and p. 81</ref> Arguably, 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.<ref>J. Rose, ''The Haunting of Sylvia Plath'' (1991) pp. 153–4 and p. 163</ref>

[[Alan Garner]] has cited the book as an influence on his fiction, especially ''[[The Owl Service]]''. In an interview, Garner has referred to the book as "that most infuriating gold mine of imagery, ''The White Goddess'', which I understood with great clarity on the fifth reading."<ref>Fini, Dmitira, ''Celtic Myth in contemporary children's fantasy : idealization, identity, ideology''.  Palgrave MacMillan, London, 2017. {{ISBN|9781137552822}}. (pg. 172) </ref> [[Susan Cooper]] has also cited ''The White Goddess'' as an inspiration for her ''[[The Dark Is Rising Sequence]]'' of fantasy novels.<ref>Butler, Charles. ''Four British Fantasists : Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper.''  Children's Literature Association and Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md, 2006. {{ISBN|9780810852426}} (pgs. 218-9)</ref><ref> Gibson, Marion. ''Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History Since the Dark Ages''. Taylor and Francis, London, 2013. {{isbn|978-1-135-08254-3}}(pg. 174)</ref> [[Lloyd Alexander]] took the names of some of the characters in his ''[[The Chronicles of Prydain]]'' fantasy novels from Graves' ''The White Goddess''.<ref>Tunnell, Michael O. ''The Prydain Companion''. Henry Holt, New York. 
2014. {{ISBN|9781429960007}}   (p.24).</ref>

''The White Goddess'' also influenced American science fiction writers. The novels ''Sign of the Labrys'' by [[Margaret St. Clair]], ''[[Flesh (Farmer novel)|Flesh]]'' by [[Philip José Farmer]], and ''[[The Snow Queen (Vinge novel)|The Snow Queen]]'' by [[Joan D. Vinge]], were all inspired by the concepts in ''The White Goddess''.<ref>[[Peter Nicholls (writer)|Nicholls, Peter]]. 
[https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mythology ''Mythology''], in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''. Retrieved 30 November 2024.</ref><ref>Shinn, Thelma J., 
''Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women''. Greenwood Press, New York, N.Y., 1986, {{ISBN|9780313251016}}. (p. 82)</ref>