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Lawrence’s Counter-Romanticism

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The Spirit of D. H. Lawrence

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Simply to glance through the list of books and articles about D. H. Lawrence which have appeared since the Second World War is a dizzying experience. For a man whose effective writing career lasted little more than twenty years, the amount of work he produced is in itself astonishing, and the range of themes within that body has facilitated endless cross-connections in the minds of critics and scholars.

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  1. F. R. Leavis, D. H. Lawrence: Novelist (1955) pp. 306–8.

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  2. See W. T. Andrews, ‘Laurentian Indifference’, Notes and Queries, CCXIV (1969) pp. 260–1.

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  3. A good representative account may be found in, e.g. Knut Merrild, A Poet and Two Painters (1938) passim.

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  4. The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. James T. Boulton (Cambridge University Press, 1979) I, p. 251.

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  16. Ford Madox Ford, Mightier than the Sword (1938) pp. 109–10, 106–7, 112.

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  17. See D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock (1911) ch. III, p. 43, and

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  24. Ibid., ch. XXIII, p. 329.

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  31. Ibid., I, p. 349.

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Beer, J. (1988). Lawrence’s Counter-Romanticism. In: Salgādo, G., Das, G.K. (eds) The Spirit of D. H. Lawrence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06510-3_4

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