“... chose not to pursue, ‘the real’ and ‘decidedly un-real’ seem out of balance. Quoting D.H. Lawrence in her abandoned review of Look, Stranger!, Bishop reiterates her interest in the poetic alchemy many Modernists sought, to make emotion more than personal: poetry ‘provides an emotional experience, and then, if we have the courage of our own ...”

“... made to speak volumes, let the palm go to another novelist for whom regionalism mattered, D.H. Lawrence. ‘I don’t in the least want to turn you out of your hut,’ says Lady Chatterley to the gamekeeper. ‘It’s your ladyship’s own ‘ut,’ replies her rough trade, demonstrating by a single apostrophe that real men have no business aping their ...”

“... figurines’, statuettes with exaggerated breasts and hips, seemed to support the notion. D.H. Lawrence, Robert Graves and Rudyard Kipling all picked up the idea, so that by the early 20th century, Mircea Eliade commented: ‘A “search for the Mother” had become a major component of the “unconscious nostalgias of the Western intellectual”.’ The ...”

“... curiosity whose work has not worn well. ‘I think one ought to be downright cruel to him,’ D.H. Lawrence said, and many have been. Max Beerbohm was, when at a dinner party he asked Davies, ‘How long is it since Shaw discovered you?’; on being told it was 13 or 14 years, he replied, ‘Oh dear dear – and has it been going on all this time?’ and added ...”

“... of Riddrie in the postwar welfare state. But the reality is more ambiguous, and in what D.H. Lawrence would call Gray’s ‘art-speech’, that truth is always there. The clever boys, taken from their parents and people by academic selection in ‘Five Letters from an Eastern Empire’ – as Gray was himself. The place of schools and schoolteachers ...”

“... of Cavafy’s work into English and made it known to such figures as T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence. Here is Forster’s description of Cavafy: a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe. His arms are extended, possibly . . . Yes, it is Mr Cavafy, and he is going either from his flat to the ...”

“... between 1905 and 1925. As the weather was wet and cold, Brooke embarked on a reread of D.H. Lawrence: Aaron’s Rod (much praised in its time) struck me, quite simply, as an abysmally bad novel ... The Rainbow: the first chapter seemed magnificent; after all, I decided, Lawrence had everything – a genius for ...”

“... painter of authentic ‘scenes from Sicilian life’. This neglect of Verga is strange. D.H. Lawrence, who lived for a while in Sicily, discovered Verga’s work with great excitement and translated him in the 1920s. He rightly called ‘Jeli the Shepherd’ and another story, ‘Rosso Malpelo’, two of the greatest ever written. At his best, as ...”

“... that the inquisitor’s argument was a perversion of Christian thinking. Three decades later, D.H. Lawrence, who in spite of himself was obsessed with the chapter, brought it out in a stand-alone volume, translated by his friend Samuel Koteliansky, with a preface by Lawrence himself. In it, he pivoted from his earlier ...”

“... text) Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo), C.P. Snow and Virginia Woolf. There are also allusions to other texts, such as William Golding’s Free Fall, and to literary schools and sub-genres: the Chester-Belloc style of essay writing is caricatured in Egbert ...”

“... Spanish as well as Indian, come to terms with their hardships, and their physical ambience. D.H. Lawrence seems to have perceived this, though his temperament and his artistic habits mostly stopped him from embodying it. The South-West, we seem to be saying, is in no sense a romantic landscape, and it isn’t romantic arts that can do it justice. The central ...”

“... Bates, W.H. Davies, L.P. Hartley. Yet early reviews compared Coppard to Hardy, Kipling and D.H. Lawrence, and he was acclaimed by (among others) Ford Madox Ford, Malcolm Cowley and, later, Doris Lessing. Though his most productive decade was the 1920s, and he was well enough known by 1931 for a bibliography of his work to be published (with interjections ...”

“... and beneath the misogyny, the academy’s hostility towards her is very like that towards D.H. Lawrence, an uneasiness in the presence of an artist who puts life before art, and the second at the service of the first. The 1848 Revolution marked a turning point. Sand threw herself into political activity. Believing that women shared common cause with the ...”

“... culminates in a riot. The day before the riot, Frederica listens to a conference paper on D.H. Lawrence and finds herself deeply disturbed by its approving account of the novelist’s ‘dangerous nonsense’ abstracted from the ‘lively drama’ of the novels themselves. ‘What is important,’ she thinks, ‘is to defend reason against ...”

“... finds in the work of his modernist ‘elders’ – H.D., Pound, William Carlos Williams, D.H. Lawrence, even T.S. Eliot, whom he considered ‘too cautious to be great’ – support for the Romantic proposition that literature was ‘a text of the soul in its search for fulfilment in life’ and the imagination ‘a primary instinctual ...”