D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
Biographical note
English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.
Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "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. Lawrence is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature,
Works
Novels
- The White Peacock [1911]
- The Trespasser [1912]
- Sons and Lovers [1913]
- The Rainbow [1915]
- Women in Love [1920]
- The Lost Girl [1920]
- Aaron's Rod [1922]
- Kangaroo [1923]
- The Boy in the Bush [1924]
- The Plumed Serpent [1926]
- Lady Chatterley's Lover [1928]
- The Man Who Died (The Escaped Cock) [1929]
- The Virgin and the Gypsy [1930]
Short stories
- The Prussian Officer and other stories [1914]
- The Odour of Chrysanthemums [1914]
- England, My England and other stories [1922]
- The Ladybird [1923]
- The Fox [1923]
- The Captain's Doll [1923]
- St Mawr [1925]
- The Woman Who Rode Away, and other stories [1928]
- The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories [1930]
- Love Among the Haystacks [1930]
- Love Among the Haystacks and other pieces [1930]
- Love among the haystacks
- A chapel among the mountains
- A hay hut among the mountains
- Once
- Collected Short Stories
- Little Novels of Sicily / Giovanni Verga; translated by D.H. Lawrence
Poetry
- Love Poems and others [1913]
- Amores [1916]
- Look! We have come through! [1917]
- New Poems [1918]
- Bay: a book of poems [1919]
- Tortoises [1921]
- Birds, Beasts and Flowers [1923]
- The Collected Poems of D H Lawrence [1928]
- Pansies [1929]
- Nettles [1930]
- Last Poems [1932]
- Fire and other poems [1940]
Plays
- The Daughter-in-Law [1912]
- The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd [1914]
- Touch and Go [1920]
- David [1926]
- The Fight for Barbara [1933]
- A Collier's Friday Night [1934]
- The Married Man [1940]
- The Merry-go-round [1941]
Non-fiction
- Study of Thomas Hardy and other essays [1914]
- Movements in European History [1921]
- Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious [1921/1922]
- Studies in Classic American Literature [1923]
- Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and other essays [1925]
- A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover [1929]
- Apocalypse and the writings on Revelation [1931]
- Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence [1936]
- Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other Prose Works by D. H. Lawrence [1968]
Travel books
- Twilight in Italy and Other Essays [1916]
- Sea and Sardinia [1921]
- Mornings in Mexico [1927]
- Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian essays [1932]
