ABSTRACT
This book examines the literary career of D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), one of the most prolific of the English writers to dominate the high period of literary modernism even whilst he appeared to inhabit its margins, an intellectual who was deeply suspicious of the mental life, and an important critic of his culture. His legacy is a vast corpus of work in practically every major literary genre, he also painted. Lawrence was one of England’s most controversial literary figures: censors balked at his representations of the sexual lives of men and women and, in the period of the Great War (1914-18), at what they perceived to be anti-patriotic sentiments in his work. Few readers remain indifferent to Lawrence’s writing, and the seventy-two years since his death have produced a range of critical responses from admiration to vilification.
