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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn D. H. Lawrence's four prayer-poems, "Prayer," "Maiden's Prayer," "Modern Prayer," and "Lord's Prayer," the poetic "I" works in mysterious ways. Lawrence's ambiguous and fiery relation to Christianity has been the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)D. H. Lawrence's background, which was an important influence on his work, is best described in his own essay ``Nottingham and the Mining Countryside.'' Life in late 19th-century Eastwood, he says, ``was a curious cross...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay reads D. H. Lawrence's The First 'Women in Love'(1916) and its contexts against the author's more familiar 1920 revision, Women in Love, to explore how the earlier novel more aggressively challenged the...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn The Rainbow, Lawrence presents an agrarian familial alternative to industrialism, and demonstrates pastoral tensions with modernization. (1) In this respect, The Rainbow resonates with Michael Squires's The Pastoral...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNear the beginning of The Rainbow, Lawrence describes how the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the Erewash Valley of the East Midlands disrupted age-old expectations and patterns of stability. More specifically,...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Hard Times (1854), Charles Dickens memorably described Gradgrind's school as "a grim mechanical substitute for ... tender young imaginations" (2). The depiction of formal education as a process of industrialising,...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )Although Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel that first comes to mind when Lawrence is mentioned, it is by no means as central to his body of work as might be thought. Throughout his life and his work he had difficulty...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction This paper will study the enactment of feeling in selected love scenes in The Rainbow. Lawrence critics have long been aware that the rhythmic quality of Lawrence's prose captures mimetically the rhythm...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)D.H. Lawrence's quest within The Rainbow for values and for the appropriate form is as important to the experience of reading the novel as his polemic. Lawrence wanted to write about the passions of men and women in a...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAmong its other distinguishing qualities, D. H. Lawrence's The Fox is remarkable for the range and intensity of the critical conflicts it has generated over the three generations since its publication (1922), and for...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Women in Love is generally considered to be D.H. Lawrence's masterpiece. It is an apocalyptic work that embodies the spirit of a civilization in decline. It covers a wider canvas than his earlier works, reflecting the...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Inertia" became a key term for D.H. Lawrence's understanding of energy and materiality, leading him to a unique environmental aesthetics that stresses the body's constant engagement with its surroundings. His...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA reader of The Rainbow (1915) and Zola's Germinal, published in 1885 the year of Lawrence's birth, can hardly fail to be struck by parallels. Apart from coal-mining themes, both novels build toward visions of...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedD. H. Lawrence wrote the first version of Women in Love in 1916, the year of the battles of Verdun and the Somme. As much as he loathed the war, the text never refers to it directly, causing critics to disagree about...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 100, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"But even [Ursula's] memories were the work of her imagination." (1) The dichotomy between passive inertia and active yearning defines the rhythm of life as Lawrence depicts it in The Rainbow. He opens his saga by...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 43, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedOn its surface, D.H. Lawrence's The Fox (1921) is somewhat simple and straightforward: two women own and work a farm together. Their life, peaceful and content though not without its struggles, is interrupted primarily...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI When Rupert Birkin first appears in Women in Love (1920), he is presented as being "like a man on a tightrope" (WL 20)--an incongruous image for the best man at a society wedding that seems comically hyperbolic....
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI Sometime during the summer of 1929, a desperately ill D. H. Lawrence jotted down a short poem in the first of the two notebooks posthumously published by Richard Aldington and Guiseppe Orioli as Last Poems (1932):...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn Lady Chatter ley's Lover (1928), D. H. Lawrence introduces readers to protagonist Connie Reid, before she becomes Lady Chatterley, through the concept of "the love experience": "a queer vibrating thrill inside the...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 44, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedD. H. Lawrence's imagination has deep affinities with and is rooted in European Romanticism. Over four decades ago, in 1969, Colin Clarke noted that "the English Romantics had made a deep impression on him" (3), and...