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Lawrence wrote his first poems, the two companion-pieces called Campions and Guelder Roses (854–5), in the spring of 1905, when he was nineteen and a student teacher. The two poems are Lawrence’s earliest surviving literary work, written almost a year before he began his first novel, The White Peacock, as ‘Laetitia’, and two years before the earliest short story or play. He had told Jessie Chambers, when he decided to begin writing, that ‘it will be poetry’, suggesting that he had considered, and for the time being rejected, other literary forms.1
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Jarrett-Kerr , D. H. Lawrence and Human Existence (London, 1951) pp. 103–4.
See Keith Sagar, The Art of D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge, 1966) pp. 241–3.
For a similar view, see D. H. Lawrence: Selected Poems, ed. Keith Sagar (Harmondsworth, 1972) p. 12,
and Tom Marshall, The Psychic Mariner (London, 1970) p. 28.
In The White Peacock the ‘little red heifer’ is used as a deliberately indelicate conversational topic by George Saxton. See p. 18 (ch. 2), and compare G. H. Neville’s A Memoir of D. H. Lawrence, ed. C. Baron (Cambridge, 1981) pp. 72–4.
A. F. Potts, The Elegiac Mode (Ithaca, N.Y., 1967) p. 403.
R. P. Blackmur, Language as Gesture (New York, 1952) pp. 294–5.
See Harry T. Moore, The Priest of Love (London, 1974) pp. 79–80.
H. N. Fairchild, in Religious Trends in English Poetry (New York, 1939–68) v, 277–8.
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Lockwood, M.J. (1987). Early Poetry. In: A Study of the Poems of D. H. Lawrence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18948-9_2
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