Volume 45, Number 16 · October 22, 1998
Men, Women & Beasts
By James Fenton
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
D.H. Lawrence The Cambridge Biography: The Early Years 1885-1912
by John Worthen
Cambridge University Press, 626, Vol. 1 pp., $22.95 (paper)
Triumph to Exile 1912-1922 (Volu
by Mark Kinkead-Weekes
Cambridge University Press, 943, Vol. 2 pp., $49.95
The Dying Game 1922-1930
by David Ellis
Cambridge University Press, 780, Vol. 3 pp., $44.95 (boxed set of three volumes, $125.00)
Birds, Beasts and Flowers! 1923)
by D.H. Lawrence
Black Sparrow Press (originally published in London by Martin Secker,, 213 pp., $14.00 (paper)
D.H. Lawrence: The Complete Poems
edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, by Warren Roberts
Penguin, 1,079 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Among the still somewhat shocking early poems of D.H. Lawrence is a group of lyrics about his mother's final sickness and death, in which the poet deliberately presents himself as his mother's lover. He carries his mother downstairs, and later finds her hairs on his jacket. He contemplates her on her sickbed:
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