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D. H. Lawrence

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Also known as Lawrence H. Davison, D.H. Lawrence, D. H. Lorenss, D. G. Lourens, David Herbert Richards Lawrence, D. H. David Herbert Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence

English writer and poet (1885–1930)

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D. H. Lawrence, born David Herbert Richards Lawrence in 1885, was a British writer, poet, playwright, and translator. He was educated at the University of Nottingham and the University of London. His notable works include *Sons and Lovers*, *The Rainbow*, *Women in Love*, and *Lady Chatterley’s Lover*. He was associated with the modernist literature movement and received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Lawrence was married to Frieda Lawrence. He died in Vence in 1930 from tuberculosis, which was also a medical condition he suffered from. His archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Harry Ransom Center. He also wrote under the pseudonym Lawrence H. Davison.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1885
Died
1930
Works
3867

Top works

  • Guía literaria de Londres
  • My skirmish with Jolly Roger
  • The plumed serpent
  • The white peacock
  • Women in love

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1885
Active to
1930

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
475
Total plays
2,998

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David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/D.+H.+Lawrence">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

  • “I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”
  • “If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I’d go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’.”
  • “My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”
  • “Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.”
  • “We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.”
  • “He talked to her endlessly about his love of horizontals: how they, the great levels of sky and land in Lincolnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forward of the persistent human soul, on and on, nobody knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicular lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and lost itself in the divine.”

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Encyclopedic overview

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) – were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality, and use of explicit language.

Lawrence's opinions and artistic preferences earned him a controversial reputation; he endured persecution and the misrepresentation of his creative work throughout his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile that he described as a "savage enough pilgrimage". At the time of his death, he had been variously scorned as tasteless, avant-garde, and a pornographer who had only garnered success for erotica; however, the English novelist and critic E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation". Later, the English literary critic F. R. Leavis also championed both Lawrence's artistic integrity and his moral seriousness.

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