Whacks
D.A.N. Jones, 4 March 1982
The Works of Witter Bynner: Selected Letters
edited by James Kraft.
Faber, 275 pp., £11, January 1982,0 374 18504 2 Show More
edited by James Kraft.
Faber, 275 pp., £11, January 1982,
A Memoir of D.H. Lawrence: The Betrayal
by G.H. Neville, edited by Carl Baron.
Cambridge, 208 pp., £18, January 1982,0 521 24097 2 Show More
by G.H. Neville, edited by Carl Baron.
Cambridge, 208 pp., £18, January 1982,
“... Two characters in pursuit of their author: such are George Neville and Witter Bynner, two chunks of raw material, anxious to tell the world about their cook. George Neville went to school with D.H. Lawrence and supposed himself the ‘original’ of George Saxton in The White Peacock: in his memoir he congratulates himself upon his useful contribution to Lawrence’s conception of true manliness ... ”
