D. H. Lawrence Summary

Biography EssayOne of the most widely discussed and renowned twentieth-century authors, D. H. Lawrence remains intriguing and problematic in terms of his biography, his writings, and his prophetic rol... Read more

Although D. H. Lawrence's fame is founded on his achievement as a novelist, he was, at least at the outset of his writing career, as interested in dramatic form as he was in the form of narrative fict... Read more

One of the most widely discussed and renowned twentieth-century authors, D. H. Lawrence remains intriguing and problematic in terms of his biography, his writings, and his prophetic role. In his relat... Read more

D. H. Lawrence was a brilliant and difficult man who often explored and exposed his complexities and contradictions in his published prose. Few modern writers of fiction have been as strikingly origin... Read more

In the following essay, Bowlby discusses the British 1960 censorship trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, along with its literary reception, in the context of a history of Britis... Read more

In the following essay, Kearney contends that ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’ “is a tour de force of Lawrence's ability to integrate landscape, character, and pollyanalytics in... Read more

In the following essay, Stewart discusses the fox in “The Fox” and the stallion in “St. Mawr” as totemic images. Reading D. H. Lawrence's “The Fox” (19... Read more

In the following essay, Schulz interprets “Odour of Chrysanthemums” as a story about human isolation and life renewal. D. H. Lawrence is not only a major novelist (if far from a flawless... Read more

In the following essay, Doherty elucidates Lawrence's inventive narrative strategies in “The Man Who Loved Islands.” What to write now? Can you still write anything? One writes wi... Read more

In the following essay, Contreras assesses the significance of indigenous culture within the broader tradition of modern primitivism in “The Woman Who Rode Away.” D. H. Lawrence's... Read more

In the following essay, Granofsky asserts that the metaphor of illness and wellness and the focus on parent-child relationships in “The Ladybird” tend to overpower Lawrence's inte... Read more

In the following essay, Williams perceives “Glad Ghosts” to be an exploration of Lawrence's psychoanalytic theories. For it is true, as William James and Conan Doyle and the rest ... Read more

In the following essay, Doherty elucidates Lawrence's depiction of contemporary courtship rituals in his short fiction. Like the previous meditation, this one is also structuralist in the L�... Read more

In the following essay, Ebbatson asserts that “England, My England” provides insights into English cultural identities at the time of World War I and examines Lawrence's revision ... Read more

In the following essay, Balbert maintains that “The Princess” is an impressive achievement “for the seamless way that it connects Lawrence's developing stylistic notions on... Read more

In the following essay, McCollum applies René Girard's theories of cultural anthropology, particularly the practice of ritual sacrifice, to Lawrence's “The Woman Who Rode A... Read more

In the following essay, Solomon discusses the role of self-knowledge in the development of poetic depth, and suggests that a certain unevenness of quality and tone in Lawrence's poetry may be d... Read more

In the following excerpt, Clark traces the influence of D. H. Lawrence's “rootless” years on the subject matter and evolution of his poetry. No experience went deeper with Lawrenc... Read more

In the following essay, Draper offers a critical overview of the range of Lawrence's poetry and its evolution in subject matter, structure, and tone. As Richard Hoggart pointed out some time ag... Read more

In the following essay, Thomas provides a line-by-line explication of Lawrence's poem, “After the Opera.” “after the Opera” Down the stone stairs Girls with their la... Read more

In the following essay, Schaefer offers an explication of Lawrence's poem, “Mystic.” “Mystic” is a poetic exercise in demythologizing mystical experience, demystifyi... Read more

In the following essay, Gregory examines the works of D. H. Lawrence that appeared or were written between 1909 and 1919. Some effort is required to get at the Lawrence of the early poems, to get behi... Read more

In the following essay, Ellman explores the “healing” elements of Lawrence's poetry and the development of poetic voice through revision. Lawrence wrote his poetry, and much of hi... Read more

In the following review of The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence, Salgado briefly traces the general tenor of critical assessment of Lawrence's poetry. “In England, they have that loathso... Read more

In the following review of The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence, Rich suggests that this collection is essential to understanding the depth and breadth of Lawrence's significance as a major poe... Read more

In the following essay, Cavitch explores Lawrence's representation of a retreat from the alienation and division of modern society into an "isolation of personal identity" and int... Read more

In the following review of Love Poems and Others, Pound concludes that Lawrence poetry succeeds in realistically detailing everyday lives whereas the poetry of John Masefield does not. The Love Poems... Read more

In the following essay, Bartlett examines the nature and breadth of Lawrence's revisions of his earlier poems for the 1928 Collected Poems. It is well known that D. H. Lawrence was an unsparing... Read more

In the following review of The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence, Rich assesses Lawrence as a major poet, finding evidence that Lawrence deliberately reduced many poems to doggerel for effect, and argui... Read more

In the following essay, Shakir examines Lawrence's early poems for evidence of his sexual preoccupations. Throughout his career as a writer, Lawrence's attitude toward literature was re... Read more

In the following essay, Presley examines Lawrence's deployment of free verse and its relationship to the themes of his poetry. The poetry of D. H. Lawrence presents an interesting problem for s... Read more

In the following essay, Murfin finds similarities and differences between Lawrence's "Hymn to Priapus" and works by Charles Algernon Swinburne and Thomas Hardy. The speaker of the... Read more

In the following essay, Gilbert agrees with T. S. Eliot's assessment of Lawrence as a hater of orthodoxy, but disagrees with Eliot when he negatively evaluates Lawrence's moral canon. .... Read more

In the following essay, Poole attempts to defend Lawrence as a major poet fully in control of poetic technique. Over the years, a number of studies of Lawrence's poetry have appeared, though by... Read more

In the following essay, Waugh assesses Lawrence's poetry as lacking in unifying ideas and the poetic skills necessary to espouse them. The modern conception of poetry is so astonishingly differ... Read more

In the following essay, Blackmur argues that Lawrence's poetry is too often marred by the author's unchecked inclusion of biographical detail and personal feelings. As a poet, and only t... Read more

In the following essay, Glicksberg examines Lawrence's poetry to support his thesis that Lawrence was engaged in creating his own religion that eschewed science and materialism. There is no co... Read more

In the following essay, Stoehr examines D. H. Lawrence's thoughts on sexuality in literature as they are expressed in his fiction as opposed to the opinions of his public statements and essays.... Read more

Myths and Legends in "Sons and Lovers" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" The Modernist writers D. H. Lawrence and J. Joyce were primarily interested in the psychology of the modern man an... Read more