The Wild Common (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Rural or country life, Beauty, England or English people, Birds
The Poem
“The Wild Common” is, in D. H. Lawrence’s own terms, “a good deal rewritten.” Among his earliest writings, it was composed in 1905 or 1906 at a time when he was “struggling to say something which it takes a man twenty years to be able to say.” Lawrence finally got that said when he published his extended version of the poem—twenty percent longer and with more than fifty percent of the original reworded—as the opening poem in his Collected Poems of 1928. The forty-two-year-old poet changed little of the basic scenario, or even of the rhyme...
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