Volume 32, Number 21 & 22 · January 16, 1986
The Taming of D. H. Lawrence
By J.M. Coetzee
Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence
by Anthony Burgess
Arbor House, 276 pp., $15.00
D. H. Lawrence: Life into Art
by Keith Sagar
University of Georgia Press, 372 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Class, Politics and the Individual: A Study of the Major Works of D. H. Lawrence
by Peter Scheckner
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 176 pp., $24.50
D. H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration
edited by Peter Balbert, edited by Phillip L. Marcus
Cornell University Press, 261 pp., $25.00
The White Peacock
by D. H. Lawrence, edited by Andrew Robertson
Viking, 416 pp., $22.50
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
by D. H. Lawrence, edited by John Worthen
Viking, 272 pp., $18.95
Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
by D. H. Lawrence, edited by Bruce Steele
Cambridge University Press, 322 pp., $42.50
Letters, Volume III
by D. H. Lawrence, edited by James T. Boulton, by Andrew Robertson
Cambridge University Press, 762 pp., $49.50
If there is one quality about D. H. Lawrence that wins the wholehearted approval of Anthony Burgess in his very readable tour through the life and works, it is Lawrence's Englishness. Lawrence was 'the most English of writers,' writes Burgess, 'the sort of good Englishman I can never myself be': a sound animal-loving man full of blunt empirical sense squarely in 'a tradition of British Non-conformist decency.' If he does sometimes go on a bit about sex, 'he knows in time when to leave off.'
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