Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) | Judith Farr (essay date summer 1990)
Judith Farr (essay date summer 1990)
SOURCE: Farr, Judith. “D. H. Lawrence's Mother as Sleeping Beauty: The ‘Still Queen’ of His Poems and Fictions.” Modern Fiction Studies 36, no. 2 (summer 1990): 195-207.
[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.]
A queen, they'll say, Has slept unnoticed on a forgotten hill. Sleeps on unknown, unnoticed there, until Dawns my insurgent day.
—“On That Day,” New Poems (1918)
To the demon, the past is not past.
—MS: Discarded Foreward to Collected Poems (1928) (Printed in Appendix I of Complete Poems II 850)
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D. H. Lawrence's deep and painful love for his mother is one of the best known facts of literary...
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