Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) | Horace Gregory (essay date 1933)
Horace Gregory (essay date 1933)
SOURCE: Gregory, Horace. “The Georgian Poet: 1909-1919.” In D. H. Lawrence: Pilgrim of the Apocalypse, pp. 1-16. New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1933.
[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 behind the beard of the prophet, the half-closed eyes and the red, V-shaped, pointed smile. The early poems belong to a white-skinned boy, back in Nottinghamshire, a boy who had the clean, water-translucent stare of an H. G. Wellsian hero. All this, of course, was long before the war and he was a Georgian poet before the Georgians appeared.
In a note placed as a preface to his Collected Poems (1928) Lawrence was a bit uneasy about these early poems first printed as Love Poems and Others and Amores. He went to no small trouble to...
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