“... Pound, Eliot and Marianne Moore (but ‘after a bout of syllable counting, to pick up D.H. Lawrence is delightful’), Stevens and William Carlos Williams (‘both inspire greater freedom than the others, Stevens of the imagination, Williams of subject and style’). Then Schuyler says that ‘Continental European literature is, really, the big ...”

“... draws attention to the fact that this meat browning in the pan is the same stuff that stuck to St Lawrence’s gridiron or to ‘the iron beds of Phnom Pen’, ‘the same stuff I am made from’: Here in my kitchen I am forced to look and listen. I cannot ignore it. Several things here get up the reader’s nose. There is the implication that while the ...”

“... He was indignant and suspicious when he heard that Graham Hough was writing a book on D.H. Lawrence, whom he himself had so recently and definitively dealt with. Hough must be up to something. In fact Hough, who had a perfect right to produce a book on Lawrence if he felt like it, was a good hater himself, in that ...”

“... end).For Sinclair Lewis, Franklin was the incarnation of Babbitry and American materialism. D.H. Lawrence called Franklin ‘the pattern American, this dry, moral, utilitarian little democrat’, who ‘has done more to ruin old Europe than any Russian nihilist’ (although elsewhere in his Studies in Classic American Literature, ...”

“... but plausibly Anthony Mann’s Heroes of Telemark. Meanwhile high culture is represented by D.H. Lawrence (‘his thirst for life lay burning in my hands inside the cool, darkened hospital room’) and a shop assistant quoting Charlotte Brontë (though omitting the question marks). ‘She straightened her back, raised her finger and said: “Do you think I ...”

“... Fund persisted, as the presence in its records of applications from Conrad, Joyce and D.H. Lawrence testifies. There were still self-destructive authors, or simply authors down on their luck, to be rescued. From the outbreak of the First World War to 1930, when he died from a fall on a London pavement, Edwin Pugh, a novelist of fair promise in his ...”

“... the only solution was to make new kinds of people (Philip Rieff was right to link him with D.H. Lawrence). Turner never makes Reich sound anything other than a very remarkable man while keeping the ironies intact, the main one being just how tyrannical his demand for worldwide sexual liberation became. The orgone box, as Turner writes, ‘offered a ...”

“... and Cold Comfort Farm, itself indulging in metacommentary on one of her most beloved authors, D.H. Lawrence. You are reminded of Frederica Potter (or A.S. Byatt herself) reading English at Newnham, trying to figure out what kind of novel you can write afterwards. Among the flowers of the novels, she also published the Amanita phalloides of three memoirs. The ...”

“... indulgently supportive of young tearaways such as Jacob Epstein, Stanley Spencer and even D.H. Lawrence, part-time painter, when they hit trouble with the British establishment.Yet the phenomenon of Cézanne persisted, and nagged at him, an affront to his capacity to master the scene. He frets away at this modern critical heresy, seeking to diagnose the ...”

“... only one to find that England after the Great War was, for the artist, ‘uninhabitable’. D.H. Lawrence found it so, and Graves and then Auden and Isherwood. But the cases don’t click. For Pound – like James and Eliot – had previously found America uninhabitable. Davie finds America inhabitable. I should hope so too. But why wasn’t it part of his ...”

“... out of lives, or even out of Plutarchan parallel lives, which, as in the case of Hitler and D.H. Lawrence, Gerhardie rather enjoys. There are interwoven chapters on Margot Tennant, the Kaiser (‘the greatest ass of the last half-century to wear a crown’), Lenin and Chekhov, Bismarck, Curzon, Balfour, Tolstoy, Wilde, Proust, a couple of Czars, and so ...”

“... he had been fearful of becoming as soft as other men were.’ Boyle, influenced by Woolf and D.H. Lawrence, focuses on the destructive relations between Pendennis and Prochaska, to the extent that some of the first readers of the novel suspected she was sympathetic to Prochaska’s infatuation with Nazism. But Boyle wants her readers to perceive that his ...”

“... crying: ‘Here’s a shot to herald the dawn of a new century.’ We are in the territory of D.H. Lawrence. All too soon Jakobe has to return to Copenhagen. Per travels to Rome, where he runs into Nanny. She is now married to a rising star in Danish journalism but already dissatisfied, and flirts readily with her sister’s fiancé. Caught up in the ...”

“... an alarming number of others seem to have stepped straight out of the condescending dreams of D.H. Lawrence and Malcolm Lowry, all immemorial wisdom and ethnic patience. They say things like ‘The soul of Mexico is very old,’ or ‘The road has its own reasons and no two travellers will have the same understanding of those reasons,’ or (in ...”

“... Marx in the company of ‘Keats, Dickens, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence’. Marxist thought and the Modernist tradition converge for Berman, as both try to grasp and confront the modern experience: Marx’s ‘new-fangled men ... as much the invention of modern time as machinery itself’; Rimbaud’s ‘il faut être ...”