The English novelist, poet, and essayist David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) took as his major theme the relationship between men and women, which he regarded as disastrously wrong in his time. Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, on September 11, 1885,...

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 relatively short life, he was a prolific author of...

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 original or as controversial as Lawrence. Few have...

Little Birds Anaïs Nin(Harcourt)“At the same moment that she felt she was falling into darkness, into his golden-brown flesh, he fell towards her, covered her with kisses, very hot, quick kisses, into which his breath passed. He kissed her behind her ears, on her eyelids,...

Inside the home's front door lay a bare, blood-soaked mattress and box spring.The house was infested with fleas, the plumbing was backed up, much of the furniture was broken and the stench of cat urine filled the air.Matthew Booth, 34, was lying face-up on the...

Elizabeth Hardwick, a Kentucky-born author and critic whose incisive prose and steady spirit helped her well fulfill her dream of becoming a "New York Intellectual," has died at age 91.Hardwick, who lived for decades on Manhattan's Upper West Side, died in her sleep Sunday night...

UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS: SEVEN PORTRAITS OF MARRIED LIFE IN LONDON LITERARY CIRCLES, 1910–1939By Katie Roiphe The Dial Press, $26, 344 pages Within a certain social circle—O.K., mine—mention of the name Katie Roiphe inspires exasperated eye rolls, forehead slaps, even hisses. Ms. Roiphe is the author,...

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.

In the following essay, Poole attempts to defend Lawrence as a major poet fully in control of poetic technique.

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.

The Modernist writers D. H. Lawrence, in his novel Sons and Lovers, and James Joyce, in his novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, successfully use ancient myths and legends to explain the darkest secrets of the human subconsciousness. Lawrence uses the myth of Oedipus to reveal the split consciousness of a man who lives under the dominance of his mother. Joyce, meanwhile, uses an allusion of the mythological craftsman Daedalus and the disastrous fall of his son Icarus in order to present the life an

Inspired by an event in the natural world, D. H. Lawrence's poem "Snake" is about an encounter between a person and a snake; the person has to choose between listening to to his own voice and admiring the snake, and listening to the voice of his education and forcing the snake to leave. Many figures of speech strengthen the power and meaning of the poem, including alliteration, similies, personification, and emphasis.

This essay contains a biography and literary analysis of D.H. Lawrence