Keith Sagar, D. H. Lawrence: Poet

This new collection of Keith Sagar's writings on the poetry of D H Lawrence includes many new interpretations of well-known poems. It ends with a year-by-year checklist of reviews and criticism of Lawrence’s poems, from 1913 to the present.

D. H. Lawrence: Poet, the fruit of forty years' reflection, is the most accessible introduction to Lawrence's poetry currently available. This highly entertaining book ... makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the development of modem poetry. --Karl Orend, Times Literary Supplement

Contents

D. H. Lawrence wrote over a thousand poems. His standing as a poet would probably have been much higher but for his pre-eminence as a writer of fiction. Though much has been written about Lawrence's poetry (as revealed by the several hundred entries in the book's checklist of criticism), there have been relatively few full length studies. This book deals with the whole range of his poetry from his earliest poems, such as 'To Campions' and 'To Guelder Roses', through the poems inspired by his elopement with and subsequent marriage to Frieda Weekley (Look! We Have Come Through!), to the mature achievement, in free verse forms inspired by Walt Whitman, of Birds, Beasts and Flowers, Pansies and Last Poems. The genesis of the poems in Lawrence's life is explored; and there are new interpretations of his most memorable poems, such as 'The Wild Common', 'Piano', 'Song of a Man Who Has Come Through', Tortoises, 'Peach', 'Pomegranate', 'Snake', 'Bavarian Gentians' and 'The Ship of Death'.

Chapter 1, The Young Man and the Demon
Chapter 2, Lawrence’s Debt to Whitman
Chapter 3, ‘Little Living Myths’: Birds, Beasts and Flowers
Chapter 4, The Genesis of 'Snake'
Chapter 5, The Open Self and the Open Poem
Chapter 6, ‘New, Strange Flowers’: Pansies, Nettles and Last Poems

Keith Sagar

Keith Sagar, formerly Reader in Literature at the University of Manchester, is currently Special Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of many books on Lawrence, including The Art of D. H. Lawrence, The Life of D. H. Lawrence and D. H. Lawrence: Life into Art, and several on Ted Hughes. His most recent book, Literature and the Crime Against Nature (2005) deals with sixteen of the greatest writers in the Western canon, from Homer to Hughes.
See http://www.keithsagar.co.uk

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