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...
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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 ...
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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...
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The author of such milestones of modernism as Sons and Lovers,The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence has long been widely recognized as one of the major English noveli...
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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...
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David Herbert Lawrence was born 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His father, Arthur Lawrence, was a miner, his mother, Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, a former schoolmistress. After matricula...
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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...
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D. H. Lawrence had a special gift for portraying what he called the spirit of place. Landscape is an essential character in his narratives, but often it is more a spiritual than a physical landscape, ...
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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...
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In the following essay, McCabe traces the concept of Otherness in Lawrence's work, finding “Odour of Chrysanthemums” to be the earliest examination of the issue.
“The centr...
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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...
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In the following essay, Meyers finds allusions to mythology, literature, and Lawrence's earlier work in “The Horse Dealer's Daughter.”
“The Horse Dealer's Dau...
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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...
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In the following essay, Scherr reads “The Prussian Officer” as an allegory for Lawrence's metaphysical concerns-specifically, the balance between the concepts of mental consciousn...
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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...
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In the following essay, Osborn offers a compositional history of “The Fox” and asserts that “as Lawrence uses an actual fable of the Aesopian kind to give form to elements borrowe...
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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...
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In the following essay, Smith argues that the stories comprising England, My England, and Other Stories possess a thematic unity and that the volume should be read as a fragmentary novel.
Writing abou...
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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...
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In the following essay, Diez-Medrano examines the function of the narrative voice and point of view in “Samson and Delilah,” which she perceives to be a story about male violence against...
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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...
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In the following essay, Siegel analyzes Lawrence's relationship to feminism and contends that “St. Mawr” reveals some commonality between Lawrence's beliefs and cultural fe...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Thornton urges greater attention to three of Lawrence's neglected stories—“Monkey Nuts,” “The Primrose Path,” and “Fanny and An...
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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�...
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In the following essay, Stoltzfus offers a Lacanian interpretation of “The Man Who Loved Islands.”
“The Man Who Loved Islands” is a story that lends itself to Lacanian anal...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Ramadier maintains that in “Tickets, Please,” the “incidental effects of progress on humanity are shown through the Lawrentian central theme of the relatio...
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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...
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In the following essay, Michelucci traces Lawrence's development as a short story writer through an analysis of the pieces in The Prussian Officer, and Other Stories and contrasts the differenc...
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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...
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In the following review, poet Pound offers a brief review of Lawrence's first book of verse.
The Love Poems, if by that Mr. Lawrence means the middling-sensual erotic verses in this collection,...
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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...
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In the following essay, Janik considers the posthumously-published Last Poems of Lawrence, asserting that they are among the finest of the poet's works.
Several of the poems that D. H. Lawrence...
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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...
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In the following essay, Rubin discusses parallels between the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and the works of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).
Despite Lawrence's strenuous deni...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Lockwood focuses attention on the poems written between 1905 and 1908 by D. H. Lawrence.
I 1905-1908
Lawrence wrote his first poems, the two companion-pieces called “C...
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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...
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In the following essay, Farr examines the recurring motif of the “Sleeping Beauty” in Lawrence's works from the perspective of the poet's intense affection for his mother.
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In the following essay, Schaefer offers an explication of Lawrence's poem, “Mystic.”
“Mystic” is a poetic exercise in demythologizing mystical experience, demystifyi...
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In the following essay, Wright traces the appearance of Scripture phrases in Lawrence's Last Poems, and discusses Biblical influences on the poet's works throughout his career.
Lawrence&...
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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...
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In the following essay, first published as the introduction to a 1947 volume of Selected Poems by D. H. Lawrence, Rexroth notes the faults of the poet's many volumes but concludes that Lawrence...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Deutsch characterizes Lawrence's poetry as generally undisciplined and subjective, yet not totally without merit or fine moments of imagery and drama.
The poetry of bo...
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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...
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In the following essay, Zanger focuses attention on a cycle of three poems found in Look! We Have Come Through!, Lawrence's third volume of poetry.
It seems to me that no poetry, not even the b...
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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...
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In the following essay, Janik asserts that two of Lawrence's essays focusing on the paintings of Paul Cézanne can also be read as descriptions of Lawrence's poetic development.
Tw...
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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...
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In the following essay, Findlay considers Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature in light of deconstructionist critical methodology, emphasizing his belief in multiple textual meanin...
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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...
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In the following essay, Williams proposes that the body of Lawrence 's poetical works must be read in order to give a full understanding of the author's philosophical and sociological in...
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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...
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In the following essay, Fisher examines what he believes is the paradoxical nature of Lawrence's poetry.
To read the poems of D. H. Lawrence after knowing his novels and other prose is to conf...
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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...
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In the following essay, Kirkham examines Lawrence's Last Poems as a poetic sequence with consistent themes and execution.
This essay falls into three parts. In the first part I suggest that Las...
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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...
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In the following essay, Janik explicates Lawrence's posthumously published poems 'Bavarian Gentians" and "The Ship of Death" among others to support claims that Lawr...
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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...
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In the following essay, Trail employs Freudian psychology to explicate Lawrence's poem "The Snake."
"Snake" is D. H. Lawrence's best known poem. It is not onl...
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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...
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In the following review of Look! We Have Come Through! Fletcher praises Lawrence's poetry as uncompromising and original, and finds similarities with the poetry of Walt Whitman.
D. H. Lawrence ...
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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.
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In the following essay, Rubin discusses resemblances between the poetry of Lawrence and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Despite Lawrence's strenuous denials of influence, specific influences upon his poe...
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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...
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In the following essay on Lawrence's Look! We Have Come Through! Aiken argues that the poem reads more like a novel, and that Lawrence's grasp of poetic techniques are limited.
It has be...
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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...
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In the following overview of Lawrence 's poetry, including Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, Aldington attempts to cast aside the poet's ideology and sexual subject matter in order to isolate ...
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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...
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In the following introduction to Lawrence's Selected Poems, Rexroth believes that, rather than being a major poet like Thomas Hardy, Lawrence was a minor prophet like William Blake and William ...
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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...
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In the following essay, Auden echoes Richard Aldington's assessment that readers should not read Lawrence to reinforce ideologies—which are better expressed elsewhere by other writers&#x...
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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....
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D.H. Lawrence was one of the greatest authors in American Literature. He grew up in Eastwood moving several times. He attended Nottingham High School and later began teaching. Some of his g...
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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...
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This poem, entitled "Snake" was composed by D.H. Lawrence in 1923. It is mainly about an encounter between the speaker and the snake on a very hot morning of July in Sicily, Italy. The feelings of the...
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David Herbert Lawrence
D(avid) H(erbert Richards) Lawrence
