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“... is the younger ones who have the besoin de la fatalité, and are struck down by the Gods, as D.H. Lawrence said, as if in saga or tragedy. In Germany the memories of many of these innocents were revived by the Nazi movement. Walter Flex was the archetypal wandervogel, who, although he rejoiced in 1914 to be ‘one of the holy horde which sacrifices itself for ...”

“... slow – she sometimes cast her in the role of fat Frieda, and herself in the role of skinny D.H. Lawrence, whose rages she now recognised all too well. This comes out more, though, in the letters to Murry, where he is meant to feel at once flattered by her violent revulsion against L.M., and accused (since he should be the one living in dangerous, devoted ...”

“... yet that is not the case here. Reading the novel, one is convinced that Morgan, no less than D.H. Lawrence, believes exactly what his style says, and this is curiously impressive. The difficulty is that though he may deeply believe it as a man, the style can still sound equivocal because of his well-bred English persona, the image of a spiritual ...”

“... intellectuals have not been entirely put off the novel by James’s prescription. Wasn’t D.H. Lawrence full of the general theories he wanted to propagate, and didn’t his novels become vehicles for them? Yes, but, as Miss McCarthy points out, Lawrence’s message was itself anti-intellectual: his cult of more trust in ...”

“... people telling one their dreams over the breakfast-table. Indeed, I am tempted to agree with D.H. Lawrence, who disliked dreams and regarded them as no more than a form of daily excretion. Dreams, which seem to us the proof of vast unused powers, are certainly very flattering to our self-esteem; but the fact remains that, as oneirologists and psychoanalysts ...”

“... narrowly defined, and the aedile function. Many years before, and in many of his writings, D.H. Lawrence had stressed the unalterable and deep connection between sexuality and secrecy, and the danger of sexual enlightenment being confused with an unnatural and immature promiscuity of display and self-expression, which always leaves behind a stale depression ...”

“... in their own region. As if all this were not ambiguous enough, they were also stranded like D.H. Lawrence between country and city, full of a Romantic yearning for the moors and likely to have witnessed a good deal of urban destitution. According to Christine Alexander, the erudite, meticulous editor of this volume, there were 18 small textile mills in ...”

“... depressing drift in the literature of the last forty years: the tendency of the novel, which D.H. Lawrence called ‘the one bright book of life’, to become the obscure book of other people’s books. Reading Ozick often just makes me wish I was reading Schulz, Singer or Malamud instead. Happily, The Bear Boy doesn’t have this effect at all. Ozick, who ...”

“... with the urge to boil infants alive. If Marx believes with an off-the-wall libertarian like D.H. Lawrence that all our powers should be realised just because they are ours, then he is guilty of a naive naturalism; but if he does not hold such a disreputable view, then he has to name some criteria by which we select suitable candidates for self-realisation ...”

“... is a mere labourer at the coalface of ‘technique’. But, despite later reservations (D.H. Lawrence described Madame Bovary as ‘sterile’; Malraux spoke of ‘beaux romans paralysés’), Flaubert’s passionate engagement with the travails of writing has made him seem the exemplary figure in the pantheon of modern literature. It is almost ...”

“... that Pirandello – more than Giovanni Verga, the verista novelist admired and translated by D.H. Lawrence (and discussed here by James Wood on 10 August) – is the key to Sicily, where people like to explain, over the most concentrated espresso drunk anywhere in Europe, exactly why everyone else’s version of an incident or situation is ...”

“... a party in London. I was a graduate student at Oxford, supposedly writing a dissertation on D.H. Lawrence but actually doing nothing of the sort. Instead, I’d completed a short novel; an extract from it had appeared in this paper, as had a poem and a review. It was on the basis of these that I must have been invited that night to the party, which was a ...”

“... they want you to work eighteen hours a day and tend to their six kids.’A hundred years ago, D.H. Lawrence called the stretch of land that runs along the eastern coast of Sardinia ‘forsaken, forgotten, not included’. The difference between the extravagant lives of the yachting class and the people who serve them in the hotels, restaurants and clubs of ...”

“... represents, from the virulently anti-intellectualist Eliot, the sincerest praise. The un-Christian Lawrence believed devoutly in the Fall: it was just that for him it was a fall into consciousness, not into bestiality. From Sterne to Woolf, English fiction struggles painfully or hilariously in the gap between sensation and idea, discourse and intuition, and is ...”

“... the people. It’s in the poems. The October day I stopped for lunch I found her reading some of Lawrence’s letters, which she compares with Keats’s. Miss Niedecker lives in terms of the communications from Zukofsky and a few others. Besides her writing and her extensive reading, she works at the local hospital for support. She is a frail person, like ...”