SOURCE: "D. H. Lawrence," in The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays, Random House, 1948, pp. 277-95.
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—and that his genius lay in his ability to articulate humankind's aggressive and hateful natures.
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