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- Robert Graves
- Recipient
- Anton Ehrenzweig 1908 – 1966
- Title
- Letter from Robert Graves to Anton Ehrenzweig
- Date
- 16 February 1951
- Description
- Letter asserting that 'wherever you [Ehrenzweig] make a mythic analogy it breaks down because the myth you quote is a late and degenerate one', and discussing the examples of Oedipus and the Sphinx and Prometheus. It includes a drawing illustrating the Sphinx's riddle.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Tony Ehrenzweig, June 2010.
- Reference
- TGA 201010/1/1/37/2
Archive context
- Papers of Anton Ehrenzweig TGA 201010 (29)
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- Correspondence TGA 201010/1 (20)
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- Correspondence arranged by sender TGA 201010/1/1 (20)
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- Letters from Robert Graves to Anton Ehrenzweig TGA 201010/1/1/37 (2)
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- Letter from Robert Graves to Anton Ehrenzweig TGA 201010/1/1/37/2