D. H. Lawrence

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Standard Name: Lawrence, D. H.
Used Form: David Herbert Lawrence
DHL published prolifically between 1909 and his death in 1930: poetry, novels, short stories, travel literature, and social comment. He was always a controversialist, fighting against the machanizing, dehumanizing, desexualizing tendencies of modern life, and was also a playwright and a painter.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Vernon Lee
Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...
Family and Intimate relationships Q. D. Leavis
Though both husband and wife were to influential, F. R. Leavis became one of the leading literary critics of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and teacher, he was known for his uncompromising, exclusive, often...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge (through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Q. D. Leavis
Responding to recent charges that Brontë 's novel is stylistically flawed, incoherent in intention, and excessively melodramatic and violent, QDL argues that the text, although not a seamless work of art, belongs, along with Tolstoy
Textual Production Margery Lawrence
ML 's ghost stories have been frequently anthologised. They appear in, for instance, Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told (1937), The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century (1987), and Vampire Stories (1993).
Clute, John, and John Grant, editors. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. St Martin’s Press.
under Lawrence, Margery
Education Philip Larkin
For ten years from 1930, as both a primary and a secondary-school student, PL attended King Henry VIII School in Coventry (now an independent school for both sexes, but founded in the sixteenth century as...
Intertextuality and Influence Philip Larkin
His youthful letters to Sutton are clotted with obscenities in a schoolboy manner, boring and embarrassing to a later generation: My tooth still aches. Balls & anus! I feel shat upon.
Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press.
5
The pained exaggeration...
Literary responses Sheila Kaye-Smith
This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life.
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne.
85
The Times Literary Supplement notice began: No matter what fine work...
Textual Production Aldous Huxley
AH 's novel Point Counter Point appeared, featuring identifiable portraits of D. H. Lawrence as Rampion, John Middleton Murry as Burlap, and Nancy Cunard as Lucy Tantamount.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
357
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
278
Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
147
Friends, Associates Aldous Huxley
Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones,
Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row.
105
and found intimidatingly intellectual, included T. S. Eliot , Osbert , Edith , and Sacheverell Sitwell , various members...
Textual Production Aldous Huxley
The letters of D. H. Lawrence , who had died two years previously, were published with AH as editor by 29 September 1932.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
357
McDowall, Arthur Sydney. “Letters of D.H. Lawrence”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1600, p. 673.
673
Friends, Associates Violet Hunt
VH entertained here frequently: her sometimes piquantly mixed invitation lists included the names of H. D. , D. H. Lawrence , Ezra Pound , Joseph Conrad , Wyndham Lewis , Walter de la Mare ...
Wealth and Poverty Violet Hunt
Hunt inherited fears of poverty from her father . She once observed: I did . . . hate insolvency . . . . The idea of debt stands at my bedside like a spectre.
Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright.
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Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH was one of the first readers of the works which launched D. H. Lawrence 's career in English letters—the poetry and short story, The Odour of Chrysanthemums, sent to the Review by his...
Textual Production Frances Horovitz
Greg Gatanby included FH 's poem Invocation in his Whales: A Celebration, 1983. This anthology comprises excerpts from literature, legends, myths, religions, and poetry from around the world. Among others included are Jonathan Swift

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