“... it was only because it was too intelligent not to realise that it was ‘done for’, as D.H. Lawrence told Keynes and Bertrand Russell at Cambridge in 1914. The very idea of a ruling class – especially a white one – was obsolete in a country aspiring to become not just democratic but multiracial too. The obituaries have been harsh. The ruling class ...”

“... work as an assemblage of devices. Meanwhile, most other modernist thinkers from Heidegger to D.H. Lawrence continued to look on science as the death of the spirit. F.R. Leavis may have inveighed against what he called the ‘technologico-Bethamite spirit’, but his Cambridge colleague I.A. Richards drew on psychology and neurology for his theory of ...”

“... Bursting with sex too, from what Ananda had heard.’ Chaudhuri wrote his doctoral thesis on D.H. Lawrence. Like Stephen Dedalus, Ananda shares his thoughts on Shakespeare, but instead of coming out with biographical speculations about Hamlet he muses on the language of Sonnet 18 (a reflection of the difference in scale between Ulysses and Odysseus ...”

“... of mother-son relationships in European and African fiction. Where for a writer such as D.H. Lawrence the maternal relationship is destructive and needs to be fought against, in African fiction, Gordimer claimed, the mother’s kiss, ‘rather like a loving smack on the behind’, is a blessing that releases the son into the world. Be that as it may, My ...”

“... habits and pampered brats. Or the paradox of the ending of Jane Eyre – ‘pornographic’, D.H. Lawrence typically called it – in which the novel finally unleashes its repressed female fury by maiming and blinding the aristocratic Rochester, but thereby reverses the power-relation between him and the petty-bourgeois Jane and clears the path for a ...”

“... in the man, and in the way he writes, that makes this so-called misogynist a bosom pal of D.H. Lawrence, with equally abrupt insights into the ways in which sex makes people behave. The most striking thing about the man of letters, exemplified at his best in this collection, is the absence of tunnel vision. It is improbably comic to think of Pritchett ...”

“... being only a few years older than boys – are getting massacred somewhere to the east. As D.H. Lawrence wrote in his 1920 foreword to Women in Love, ‘the bitterness of the war may be taken for granted in the characters’: Lawrence’s novel says even less about war and warfare than Radiguet’s, but both books ...”

“... on through the Pre-Raphaelites; thence to anthropologists (Levi-Strauss and Malinowski) and D.H. Lawrence; thus to Nazi visual art, illustrated by a sentimental painting of a Hitler youth and a sketch by Hitler himself for a projected triumphal arch; and eventually, via (somehow) Kandinsky, to the heroic workers of Soviet art, whom I cannot read as ...”

“... all round about this. In terms of anxiety-inducing literary influences, he had his effect on D.H. Lawrence, but not in ways that have to do with a sense of humour. His relationship to sexual emancipation in general is far more intriguing, because it took hold in the international sphere, the world of German sexology, Leo Tolstoy and P.D. Ouspenski. It is very ...”

“... which all the senses were vulnerable to unwanted incursion. This was the ‘cerebral age’, D.H. Lawrence thought, where ‘we are humanly out of touch.’ For E.M. Forster, the modern city was a place of ‘telegrams and anger’, of ‘hurrying men who know so much and connect so little’. Modern technologies were felt to be co-opting the human senses ...”

“... in a fluent (sometimes logorrhetic) discourse that bears some comparison with that of D.H. Lawrence. (Lawrence’s last piece of writing was a review of Gill’s Art Nonsense: it sorts out the one ‘great truth’ from the pub-bore element in Gill.) ‘The machine’ and ‘industrialism’, for Gill – as for ...”

“... one of the earliest interpreters of Eliot’s poetry. F.R. Leavis championed Eliot, Pound and D.H. Lawrence, and taught Joyce’s Ulysses while it was publicly banned. William Empson edited an undergraduate magazine called Experiment, producing a Joyce issue which was also banned. Richards’s experiments in Practical Criticism reflected the notion that the ...”

“... some of them influential, some fraudulent, and some both, like Mme Blavatsky and Gurdjieff; D.H. Lawrence also has a place in this tradition. It has strongly affected literature, perhaps French literature more than English, and has sometimes turned literature into prophecy, but it has touched literary criticism very rarely. Criticism is Bloom’s basic ...”

“... as exclusive as the strictest Leavisite (if any remain) or St James blackballer could wish: D.H. Lawrence (seven vols), Virginia Woolf (six vols), Thomas Hardy (seven vols) and Katherine Mansfield (four vols). The Conrad project, begun in 1983, is moving to its close with this, the sixth instalment of what will be an eight-volume set. These compilations are ...”

“... can be found everywhere one looks in modernist culture. It is there in a benign form in D.H. Lawrence, for whom we do not belong to ourselves but must simply be open to whatever anonymous creative force is evolving within us. In the thought of T.S. Eliot, this force assumes the impersonal authority of tradition, which the individual talent must allow to ...”