“... of Joachim of Flora, almost eight centuries old, turns up all over the place in Blake, in D.H. Lawrence, in Hegel and Hitler, in the sects studied by Christopher Hill. Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, which had its place in every Elizabethan church, provided a world history with England at its centre and the apocalyptic tropes and numbers as its ...”

“... bird’. He finds this language in ‘so much that is memorable in our recent literature’. D.H. Lawrence, Hardy and Eliot are cited as examples of ‘recent’ literature, reminding us that Scruton’s sense of time too is personal. For all that it’s a ‘personal’ history, Scruton’s Christianity deals in the larger abstractions, and repeated ...”

“... and settings and incidents, a dully and vauntingly cerebral book about bodies (how disgusted D.H. Lawrence would have been with it!), racking up more and more about less and less, semi-colons adrift in bloated and fussy prose. It is a book about sexual disloyalty or sexual distraction, written without heart and, barring two short scenes that are like a ...”

“... with scenes of hesitant postgraduate life in mid-1980s Oxford (Chaudhuri wrote his PhD on D.H. Lawrence at Balliol) and listless periods in Bombay. The tone is melancholic: returning to Calcutta, the narrator finds the fertile city of his youth has grown tired, outdated. ‘Nothing has changed for the last twenty years … The air is awash with Marx and ...”

“... his wife, while he was abroad on diplomatic business, to fifteen years of loneliness. D.H. Lawrence hated his rationality about sex, catching him out on one of his maxims: ‘Rarely use venery but for health or offspring.’ Don’t use it at all, said Lawrence. Early British commentators on America as a new republic ...”

“... beach or by taking minor trips or otherwise agreeable spells abroad: Henry James in France, D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico, Lawrence Durrell in Corfu, Michel Butor in Istanbul, Henry Miller in Greece. In December 1933, leaving his father in Simla and his mother in London, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off to walk from the Hook of ...”

“... Month, he writes: ‘Its tone and voice are as individual and recognisable as that of, say, D.H. Lawrence, and, it might be argued, as wise and valuable in thought, though richer in entertainment.’ This strikes me as nonsense. Here is the voice of that novel (and such stuff can be found all over at least the first half of his oeuvre): The precipitous ...”

“... after all: ‘The Scrutiny group continued a line that included Cobbett and Shelley, Carlyle and Lawrence … they resumed an argument initiated by Coleridge and brought to classical maturity by Arnold.’ Leavis’s ‘epistemological themes of “recognition” and “inwardness”, of cultural knowledge as “recreation”, as the identity of the knower ...”

“... a couple of months before he embarked on the first version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence gave voice – as he often did – to the hatred he felt for ‘our most modern world’. Tin cans and ‘imitation tea’ feature prominently on his list of things not to like about being ‘most modern’. Tin cans often featured on such lists, either ...”

“... of friendship, though its realisation may be an arduous critical process. Even a writer like D.H. Lawrence for whom Booth has always had an instinctive aversion must be recuperated for the commonwealth. His method is to begin with an indictment: Can you think of any major novelist, other than Dreiser perhaps, who provides more invitation to stop reading and ...”

“... died and which Diaghilev travelled more than once to see. Among many others, Ezra Pound and D.H. Lawrence also made the trip to Fontainebleau, and Gurdjieff’s teachings dogged Lawrence as far as Taos, another counter-cultural centre. The important point to emerge from this tangled history is that early Modernism was ...”

“... On 10 February 1915 E.M. Forster visited D.H. and Frieda Lawrence at Greatham. The visit went off reasonably well, by the standards appropriate to those participants. The men, according to Forster, ‘had a two hours walk in the glorious country’ between Greatham and Arundel. Lawrence told Forster ‘all about his people – drunken father, sister who married a tailor, etc: most gay and friendly, with breaks to look at birds, catkins, etc ...”

“... poet to ‘speak up for life’, to quote the phrase that Leavis borrowed approvingly from D.H. Lawrence. Life can be left to go about its business without the encouragement of poets. But one would not wish to endorse hysteria and emotional deprivation masquerading as a lofty spirituality and a devastating judiciousness. As Ricks says, the ‘uglier ...”

“... gossip, cannot be expected to add that the same author wrote two books, one enormous, about D.H. Lawrence, and also fathered Claire Tomalin.) Since 1968, algorithm has also had a medical sense meaning a sort of diagnostic flow-chart. There is no mention here of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, in which the word is famously used or abused. How we did without ...”

“... of the stories and poems called in to excuse or justify such a life has also been questioned. D.H. Lawrence called ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ an overdone and vulgar fantasy. Yvor Winters said Poe’s was an art for servant girls. Both Henry James and T.S. Eliot used the deadly word ‘provincial’. Auden condemned a sentence from ‘William ...”