The Poetry of Lawrence (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1913
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people
Critical Evaluation:
In a note to his COLLECTED POEMS of 1928, D. H. Lawrence explains that he tried to arrange the poems in chronological order “because their personal nature made them, in effect, a biography of inner life and experience. Lawrence’s poetry, which is not widely read, succeeds for just this reason; reading through the volumes, one must agree with the poet, for the poems, rough as they often seem, sometimes even crude and apparently rapidly composed, are everywhere alive; they pulse with the currents and cross currents of their author’s tempestuous...
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