Seeing in the Darkness
James Wood, 6 March 1997
D.H. Lawrence: Triumph To Exile 1912-22
by Mark Kinkead-Weekes.
Cambridge, 943 pp., £25, August 1996,0 521 25420 5 Show More
by Mark Kinkead-Weekes.
Cambridge, 943 pp., £25, August 1996,
“... is unaccountable. Christmas roses, ‘the lovely buds like handfuls of snow’; ‘the powerful, silver-pawed cypress tree’; ‘In the silence, it seemed he could hear the panther-like dropping of infinite snow’; ‘the flat unfinished world running with foam and noise and silvery light, and a few gulls swinging like a half-born thought’. Yet Lawrence ... ”