“... allow Meyers to dwell on his previous subjects: he has already tackled Orwell, Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Edmund Wilson, among many others. But his obsessive cross-referencing also seems aimed at elevating Maugham by association. Meyers dismisses his weaker efforts, and even quotes some of the lines that drew fire. (From Great ...”

“... little unhinged at times’). Yet aberration was something he appeared to need from her. D.H. Lawrence observed that characters in Hardy’s novels don’t tend to ‘develop’; instead they ‘explode … bursting suddenly out of bud … out of a … tight, hide-bound cabbage state into something quite madly personal’. The madly personal in Emma ...”

“... him ‘that little worm’. Eliot declared that ‘no truce is possible with such people.’ D.H. Lawrence called him ‘a suburban rat’ (for the modernists, ‘suburban’ was always the ultimate insult). In New Verse, Geoffrey Grigson set out to discredit for ever the middlebrow world of letters. By 1940, the job was done, according to George Orwell: back ...”

“... with the rest. Several, towing their druggs, will make easy pickings for other whaling ships. D.H. Lawrence thought this ‘the most stupendous chapter’ in the book, and quoted at length from the aquarium scenes, stressing the ‘submarine bridal chambers’ within the nursery. Always eager to spell things out (‘amazing monsters . . . in rut’), ...”

“... read this book. Aldington was born in 1892; that makes him younger than Eliot by four years, than Lawrence and Pound by seven, and than Wyndham Lewis by ten years. Herbert Read was a year his junior. These are all figures with whom he had more or less close connections at one time or another, so the relativities are worth bearing in mind. Aldington’s father ...”

“... one he could have shared with several contemporaries, Proust, Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence among them). When he was dying of TB of the larynx he was fetching up a good deal of phlegm. ‘I think,’ he said (and the joke is more poignant for being so physically painful to make), ‘I think I deserve the Nobel Prize for sputum.’ Nothing if ...”

“... the labour of creation. Most readers probably glide over this sort of old-school Nietzsche/D.H. Lawrence boilerplate without it really registering, but there’s no question Smith herself takes it seriously, always did. There have been clinches with Catholicism, Buddhism, paganism, you name it, but Art is the one thing Smith has never stopped ...”

“... compulsion to dominate and colonise nature. It’s a conclusion remarkably similar to the one D.H. Lawrence reaches in Etruscan Places. Lawrence’s metaphors for coloniser and colonised are the Romans and the Etruscans respectively: the former’s civilisation is marked by territorial conquest and the domination of ...”

“... at all, but as neurosis, emotional repression, the inability to love: there is much more D.H. Lawrence and Blake in them than there is Mr Marx. And of course a lot of Freud, mostly not in particulars but in the diffusely Freudian cast of mind – the ‘climate of opinion’, in Auden’s famous phrase – which, contemplating the whole range of human ...”

“... Byatt’s mother, Kathleen – drop books into the rubbish bin. I have to think a lot about D.H. Lawrence for some reason; I have to rebut the idea that there are no accidents in novels. It is pertinent, then, that I had no education. Byatt was freed into hers and also enclosed by it. You are inside its sensual pleasures. Yes, you will sometimes feel ...”

“... literary ‘Englishness’. Four possible candidates, varying in attainments, would be T.E. Lawrence, Robert Graves, Peter Fleming (perhaps both Flemings) and Richard Hughes. It makes no difference that Lawrence was half-Irish, the Flemings mostly Scottish, and Hughes partly Welsh. The presidential or father figure of ...”

“... to be the then remaining object of prurient embarrassment, sex having ceased to be ‘what D.H. Lawrence once called it, “the dirty little secret” ’. Podhoretz decided to do for success what Lawrence had done for sex, to free it from ‘superstition, hypocrisy and cant’, and open up as a fully adult object of ...”

“... well as emotional bond: Wittgenstein, who had repudiated Russell’s work in philosophy, and D.H. Lawrence, who had become contemptuous both of his writing and of his character. In helping the Eliots, Russell needed to believe in his purity of purpose. He wanted especially to believe that he was in this case acting in a manner uncontaminated by public ...”

“... named the gift as the liberating source of identity and power.’ Auden thought that D.H. Lawrence owed ‘his influence for good and evil to his gift’, but that Matthew Arnold had ‘thrust his gift in prison till it died’. According to Mendelson, ‘almost everything [Auden] wrote in 1939 was an attempt to clarify his mixed feelings about the ...”

“... the first thing was just to read, non-stop, books that were never available in Pakistan: D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Isaac Deutscher’s Trotsky trilogy, Trotsky himself, other Bolshevik leaders, many others. So for me Oxford was very liberating and on many fronts. When I came to Britain, it was obvious that the United States had taken over the function ...”