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David Herbert Lawrence (11 September, 1885 – 2 March, 1930) was one of the most important, prolific and controversial English writers of the 20th century, whose output spans novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. These works, taken together, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, sexuality, and instinctive behaviour, making him iconic in an age influenced by Freud and Nietzsche.
Lawrence's unsettling opinions earned him many enemies and he endured hardships, official persecution, censorship and the misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in voluntary exile, self defined as a "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature, although some feminists have questioned the attitudes to women and sexuality to be found within his works.
Life
Early life (1885-1912)
The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner, and Lydia, née Beardsall, a former schoolmistress, David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born and spent his formative years in the coal mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. His birthplace, in Eastwood, 8a Victoria Street, is now a museum. His working class background and the tensions between his mismatched parents provided the raw material for a number of his early works and Lawrence would return to this locality, which he was to call "the country of my heart", as a setting for much of his fiction. More on [ D. H. Lawrence ]
The supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive â D.H. Lawrence #LOA #consciousness
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The supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive — D.H. Lawrence #LOA #consciousness
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: D. H. Lawrences Essays - Analysis of why Lawrences essays succeed.
D H Lawrence: Dramatist - Essay by Keith Sagar about his life and works.
Meta Description: [ D.H. Lawrence: Dramatist, an essay by Keith Sagar, D.H. Lawrence Review, 1968 ]
D. H. Lawrence Society of Australia - Web site for the Australian group of academics, artists, writers, and teachers dedicated to the study and appreciation of the writer.
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D. H. Lawrence - The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems.
D. H. Lawrence from the Aesthete's List - Includes extensive bibliographical table and critical/research bibliography, plus an extensive selection of links and some biographical data.
D. H. Lawrence Review - University of Texas Web site for the consummate academic serial focusing on Lawrence scholarship.
D.H. Lawrence Collection - The D H Lawrence Collection at The University of Nottingham is one of the major international research resources for the study of D H Lawrence. It includes both published and manuscript material.
D.H. Lawrence in Taos - Devoted to the Seventh International D. H. Lawrence Conference in Taos, New Mexico, July 12-17, 1998.
David Herbert Lawrence - Images and digitized photographs of D.H. Lawrence, his wife, previous girlfriends, his family, and one of his own paintings.
Erin's D.H. Lawrence Page - Includes biography, selected poetry, magazine/journal articles, and related links.
Meta Description: [ All about D. H. Lawrence, includes poetry, biography, links, articles and other works. ]
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