SOURCE: Kearney, Martin F. “Spirit, Place and Psyche: Integration in D. H. Lawrence's ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’.” English Studies 69, no. 2 (1988): 158-62.

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 into a single thematic statement.”

D. H. Lawrence's ‘savage pilgrimage’ took him from England to Western Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and North America. Each location's spirits of place were experienced first hand, duly recorded, and appear in the author's works as real presences that greatly influence his characters. In ‘Spirit of Place’, written sometime between August 1917 and June 1918 and later revised for Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), Lawrence states that ‘every great locality has its own pure daimon’ (TSM 20). He continues, ‘There is, no doubt, some peculiar potentiality attaching to every distinct region of the earth's surface over and above...