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  • Aiken, Conrad. Collected Criticism (Formerly 'A Reviewer's ABC). London: Oxford University Press, 1935, 414 p. (Essays written by Aiken on Lawrence between 1924 and 1929 that evidence Aiken's admiration for Lawrence as a prose writer as well as his reservations concerning the prosaic nature of Lawrence's verse.)
  • Baker, James R. "Lawrence as Prophetic Poet." Journal of Modern Literature 3, No. 5 (July 1974): 1219-38. (Discusses Lawrence's poetry and the works of W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, and T. S. Eliot, finding prophetic qualities in the work of all four poets.)
  • Becket, Fiona. The Complete Critical Guide to D. H. Lawrence. London: Routledge, 2002, 186 p. (Critical study of Lawrence's major works.)
  • Black, Michael. "England, My England." In Lawrence's England: The Major Fiction, 1913-20, pp. 152-83. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave, 2001. (Evaluates the place of England, My England within Lawrence's oeuvre.)
  • Brashear, Lucy M. "Lawrence's Companion Poems: 'Snake' and Tortoises." The D. H. Lawrence Review 5, No. 1 (Spring 1972): 54-62. (Analyzes "Snake" as part of a sequence including the separately published Tortoises, and notes the thematic and stylistic similarities of the works Lawrence eventually published under the heading "Reptiles.")
  • Cipolla, Elizabeth. "The Last Poems of D. H. Lawrence." The D. H. Lawrence Review 2, No. 2 (Summer 1969): 103-19. (Employs Lawrence's posthumously discovered notebooks to analyze the poems written in the last two years of his life.)
  • Drew, Elizabeth and John L Sweeney. Directions in Modern Poetry. New York: Gordian Press, 1967, 290 p. (Enumerates the inconsistencies the commentators perceive in Lawrence's poetry and finds that the poet was a chronicler of immediate emotions resulting in poetry that varied widely in quality.)
  • Díez-Medrano, Conchita. "Fictions of Rape: The Teller and the Tale in D. H. Lawrence's ‘None of That’." Forum for Modern Language Studies 32, no. 4 (October 1996): 303-13. (Examines the narrative technique of “None of That.”)
  • Fernihough, Anne, ed. The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 292 p. (Collection of critical essays on Lawrence's work.)
  • Gilbert, Sandra M. Acts of Attention: The Poems of D. H. Lawrence. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1972, 327 p. (Champions Lawrence as a writer fully in control of his poetic faculties, using evidence from Lawrence's own essays to support her claim.)
  • Gomme, A. H., ed. D. H. Lawrence: A Critical Study of the Major Novels and Other Writings. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978, 224 p. (Compiles ten essays on Lawrence, including "D. H. Lawrence's Poetry: Art and Apprehension," by R. T. Jones, in which the author uses Lawrence's fiction to explain the themes of his poetry.)
  • Granofsky, Ronald. "Survival of the Fittest in Lawrence's ‘The Captain's Doll’." D. H. Lawrence Review 27, no. 1 (1998): 27-46. (Explores the role of Darwinian evolutionary theory in “The Captain's Doll.”)
  • Granofsky, Ronald. D. Lawrence and Survival: Darwinism in the Fiction of the Transitional Period. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003, 212 p. (Full-length critical study of Lawrence's work, including his novellas and short stories.)
  • Greiff, Louis K. D. H. Lawrence: Fifty Years on Film. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002, 275 p. (Examines the cinematic adaptations of Lawrence's short fiction.)
  • Grmelová, Anna. "D. H. Lawrence's ‘Sun’ as a Parable of Participation." Litteraria Pragensia 11, no. 21 (2001): 88-93. (Delineates differences between the initial and later versions of “Sun,” contending that the explicit sexual content of the later version “has ramifications for the philosophical impact of the story.”)
  • Grmelová, Anna. "Thematic and Structural Diversification of D. H. Lawrence's Short Story in the Wake of World War I." Litteraria Pragensia 2, no. 4 (1992): 58-69. (Traces the stylistic and thematic development of Lawrence's short fiction around the time of World War I.)
  • Henderson, Philip. The Poet and Society. London: Martin Secker & Warburg, Ltd., 1939, 248 p. (Equates the collection Birds, Beasts, and Flowers in importance with T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland.)
  • Humma, John. "D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)." In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, edited by Douglass H. Thomason, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank, pp. 233-40. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. (Discusses Lawrence as a Gothic writer.)
  • Hyman, Stanley Edgar. The Critic's Credentials: Essays & Reviews by Stanley Edgar Hyman, edited by Phoebe Pettingell. New York: Atheneum, 1978, 325 p. (Categorizes Lawrence's work as alternately written by either a "Young Woman," "Tarzan," "Peepshow Barker," "Hedge Preacher," or "Spiteful Ted," while acknowledging that Lawrence was capable of poetic triumphs.)
  • Littlewood, J. C. F. "The Early Tales." In Studies in Tradition and Renewal, edited by William Shearman, pp. 25-46. Norfolk, England: Brynmill Press, 2002. (Regards the stories of The Prussian Officer to be a key step in Lawrence's literary development, particularly the pieces of “Odour of Chrysanthemums” and “Daughters of the Vicar.”)
  • Mace, Hebe R. "The Genesis of D. H. Lawrence's Poetic Form." In Critical Essays on British Literature, edited by Dennis Jackson and Fleda Brown Jackson, pp. 189-202. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1988. (Discusses nontraditional structure and form in Lawrence's poetry.)
  • Mace, Hebe Riddick. "The Achievement of Poetic Form: D. H. Lawrence's Last Poems." The D. H. Lawrence Review 12, No. 3 (Fall 1979): 275-88. (Responds to R. P. Blackmur's arguments against Lawrence's poetry by defending free verse as an honored English literary tradition.)
  • Marshall, Tom. The Psychic Mariner: A Reading of the Poems of D. H. Lawrence. New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, 1970, 275 p. (Provides an overview of critical opinion regarding Lawrence as a poet and examines the poetic works as arranged in five chronological stages.)
  • Moore, Harry T., ed. A D. H. Lawrence Miscellany. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1959, 395 p. (Compiles essays dedicated to various aspects of Lawrence's writing which reinforce Moore's opinion of Lawrence as the major author of the twentieth century.)
  • Murfin, Ross C. The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence: Texts & Contexts. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983, 263 p. (Divides Lawrence's poetry into three phases and places his entire body of work firmly in the Romantic tradition.)
  • Oates, Joyce Carol. The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973, 60 p. (Contends that Lawrence's poetry is superior to his prose, and that his poetry needs to be judged as a whole rather than as individual poems.)
  • Pollnitz, Christopher. "D. H. Lawrence's Last Poems: Taking the Right Tack." Journal of Modern Literature 23, no. 3-4 (summer 2000): 503-17. (An explanation of Pollnitz's approach to the preparation of a critical edition of Lawrence's poems.)
  • Poplawski, Paul, ed. Writing the Body in D. H. Lawrence: Essays on Language, Representation, and Sexuality. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001, 219 p. (Collection of critical essays on Lawrence's novels and short fiction.)
  • Poplawski, Paul. "Lawrence's Satiric Style: Language and Voice in St. Mawr." In Lawrence and Comedy, edited by Paul Eggert and John Worthen, pp. 158-79. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Regards “St. Mawr” as “one of Lawrence's late comic masterpieces” and delineates the satirical elements in the story.)
  • Reeve, N. H. "Liberty in a Tantrum: D. H. Lawrence's Sun." The Cambridge Quarterly 24, no. 3 (1995): 209-20. (Compares the two versions of Lawrence's short story “The Sun.”)
  • Reeve, N. H. Reading Late Lawrence. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave, 2003, 178 p. (Provides a study of Lawrence's late short fiction.)
  • Renner, Stanley. "Sexuality and the Unconscious: Psychosexual Drama and Conflict in The Fox." The D. H. Lawrence Review 21, no. 3 (fall 1989): 245-73. (Delineates Lawrence's theory of sexual impulse as well as the relationship between sexuality and the unconscious as evinced in “The Fox.”)
  • Rose, Jonathan. "Lawrence for Everyman: An Undiscovered Short Story?" The D. H. Lawrence Review 22, no. 3 (fall 1990): 267-73. (Contends that “The Back Road” is an undiscovered short story of Lawrence.)
  • Schapiro, Barbara Ann. "Sadomasochism as Intersubjective Breakdown in D. H. Lawrence's ‘The Woman Who Rode Away’." In Psychoanalyses/Feminisms, pp. 123-33. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. (Investigates the sadomasochistic elements of “The Woman Who Rode Away.”)
  • Schapiro, Barbara Ann. "The Short Stories." In D. H. Lawrence and the Paradoxes of Psychic Life, pp. 55-77. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. (Elucidates the major thematic concerns of Lawrence's short stories.)
  • Smith, L. E. W. Laurence Lerner. "Two Views of D. H. Lawrence's Poetry: ‘Snake’ and ‘How Beastly the Bourgeois Is’." The Critical Survey 1, no. 2 (spring 1963): 81-89. (Explications of two of Lawrence's most frequently-anthologized poems.)
  • Solomon, Gerald. "The Banal, and the Poetry of D. H. Lawrence." Essays in Criticism 23, No. 3 (July 1973): 254-67. (Argues that Lawrence undermines the effectiveness of his poetry with less-than-adequate technique.)
  • Squires, Michael Keith Cushman, eds. The Challenge of D. H. Lawrence. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990, 217 p. (Collection of critical essays on Lawrence's novels and short fiction.)
  • Steinberg, Erwin R. "'Song of a Man Who Has Come Through'—A Pivotal Poem." The D. H. Lawrence Review 11, No. 1 (Spring 1978): 50-62. (Finds Biblical sources for Lawrence's poem, in contrast to previous critics who believed the work referenced Greek mythology.)
  • Trail, George Y. "West by East: The Psycho-Geography of Birds, Beasts, and Flowers." The D. H. Lawrence Review 12, No. 3 (Fall 1979): 241-55. (Relies on information about Lawrence's travels to explicate the poems contained in Birds, Beasts, and Flowers.)
  • Vickery, John B. "D. H. Lawrence's Poetry: Myth and Matter." The D. H. Lawrence Review 7, No. 1 (Spring 1974): 1-18. (Places Lawrence's poetry between the mythopoetic verse of T. S. Eliot and the physical descriptiveness of the work of William Carlos Williams.)
  • Young, Jane Jaffe. "‘The Rocking-Horse Winner’." In D. H. Lawrence on Screen: Re-Visioning Prose Style in the Films of “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” Sons and Lovers, and Women in Love, pp. 13-57. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. (Analyzes the film adaptation of “The Rocking-Horse Winner.”)

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