Westward Ho
Frank Kermode, 7 February 1985
The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. Vol. III: October 1916 - June 1921
edited by James Boulton and Andrew Robertson.
Cambridge, 762 pp., £25, November 1984,0 521 23112 4 Show More
edited by James Boulton and Andrew Robertson.
Cambridge, 762 pp., £25, November 1984,
Brett: From Bloomsbury to New Mexico
by Sean Hignett.
Hodder, 299 pp., £14.95, January 1985,9780340229736 Show More
by Sean Hignett.
Hodder, 299 pp., £14.95, January 1985,
“... it out.’ Meantime, however, ‘one groans with torture and horror.’ Not for nothing did the French troops say they’d make it, ‘pourvu que les civils tiennent’. At the time of these letters, Lawrence was best-known as the author of Sons and Lovers (an aspirant who, according to Henry James, might be seen ‘lagging in the dusty rear’ of Hugh ... ”