Lawrence, D. H. - Charles I. Glicksberg (essay date 1948)

Charles I. Glicksberg (essay date 1948)

SOURCE: "The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence," in The New Mexico Quarterly Review, Vol. 14, March 13, 1948, pp. 289-303.

[In the following essay, Glicksberg examines Lawrence's poetry to support his thesis that Lawrence was engaged in creating his own religion that eschewed science and materialism. ]

There is no contradiction in the fact that Lawrence's ideas on human nature and society are muddled while his poetry is flame-like, instinct with beauty organically felt and sensuously communicated. When he trusted his feelings he was on firm ground; when his powerful sensibility ruled him he could not go wrong. Each impression leaped forth like a radiant beam of sunlight; form and substance fused in a lyrical moment of incandescent, imaginative perception. His poems are vascular, charged with a living bloodstream. They could no more be composed according to rule than a flower can be prepared synthetically in...

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