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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
's radio plays are more numerous still: Echoes, 1980, A Late Spring, 1982, A Day Off, 1983 (from the novella of that name from Storm Jameson
's Women against Men... |
| Textual Production | Anne Devlin | |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Brett | Lawrence and Brett, DB
's only published book, was released to the American public, to join an ever-growing canon of memoirs concerning the lately departed D. H. Lawrence
. Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts. 219-20 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Drabble | MD
published a novel, The Dark Flood Rises, whose theme is the prospect of old age and death, though its title comes from a poem by D. H. Lawrence
, who did not live... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Brett | DB
, having refused to participate in a festival marking forty years since the death of D. H. Lawrence, drafted the one of several supplements to her account in Lawrence and Brett of her time... |
| Textual Production | Rebecca West | RW
published her study D. H. Lawrence not long after Lawrence
's death. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library. 7 West, Rebecca. D.H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, http://UofA. 5 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maureen Duffy | From Methuen's first-published author, Edna Lyall
, she traces the firm's dealings with other progressive activists, with canonical names in many genres including books for children, and with such controversial figures as Ibsen
, Wilde
, and Lawrence
. Maureen Duffy: Author, poet, playwright. http://www.maureenduffy.co.uk/. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca West | West comments on the public reaction to Lawrence
's death, lamenting that he was not sufficently honoured by his peers. She praises his literary genius, and pronounces his life a spiritual victory. West, Rebecca. D.H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, http://UofA. 44 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | W. H. Auden | It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Williams-Ellis divided her text into five sections according to audience, respectively written For All, For Philosophers, For Missionaries, For Critics, and For Readers. The last section consists of short studies... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen Nott | KN
approvingly cites Mary Warnock
for discerning and hailing a tendency among moral philosophers to address the complexities of actual choice, and actual decisions, thus making moral philosophy more difficult, perhaps much more embarrassing... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Brett | She now described two unsuccessful sexual encounters with Lawrence
, after he told her that any relationship must include a sexual relationship. So there we lay. I felt desperate; all the love I had for... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Virginia Woolf | Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press. 3: 421 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sybille Bedford | This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or... |
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