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D. H. Lawrence, criticized, censored and dismissed in his lifetime, now stands as one of the major imaginative novelists of the early twentieth-century.
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. 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, sexuality, and human instinct.
Clear, vivid and convincing, introduction to the life and works of D. H. Lawrence, sets the reader firmly in the context of his times and outlines his life and intellectual background, and their effect on his writing, looks in detail at Lawrence’s work, Sons and Lovers, examines Lawrence as a literary critic and covers important people and places in Lawrence’s life and their effect on him.
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