Selected poems - Paperback - Lawrence, D. H

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Item Condition: Used; Good Some wear around the edges - - 1950 ABOUT THIS BOOK The poems in this selection are printed in the order in which they were written, an arrangement deter mined by D. H. Lawrence's own assertion that many of them 'are so personal that, in their fragmentary fashion, they make up a biography of an emotional and inner life'. The earlier ones include some written in his late teens when he was training to becomne a teacher, and these are followed by several which em- body such poignant relationships as those with his mother and the women he first loved. His frequent and protracted journeys, to Italy and Mexico espec- ially, stimulated many of the best poems in the book, particularly those which so vividly explore the nature of birds, beasts and flowers. Into many of the later poems Lawrence proclaimed his fervent convictions about the way mnen and women should live and ex- press themselves,, and his abhorrence of many aspects of progress' and the machıne-age. Early in his development as a poet Lawrence aban- doned the conventions of metre and rhyme, and em- ployed a flexible form of utterance which took many diferent patterns. He was less preoccupied with poetic style than with poetic meaning. Sometimes, indeed, he scorns even the rudiments of prosody and allows the intensity of his passion to explode like a volcanic eruption. This selection is taken from the Collected Poems, arranged in order by Lawrence himself, and pub- lished in 1928, and from the subsequent volume called Pansies, published in 1929. For details of the otber rolumes in this Commemoration Edition of D. H. Lawrence's work see tbe annomcement on tbe inside page of tbe back cover. var aPageStart = (new Date()).getTime();var ue_t0=ue_t0||+new Date();window.ue_ihb = (window.ue_ihb || window.ueinit || 0) + 1;if (window.ue_ihb === 1) {var ue_csm = window, ue_hob = +new Date();(function(d){var e=d.ue=d.ue||{},f=Date.now||function(){return+new Date};e.d=function(b){return f()-(b?0:d.ue_t0)};e.stub=function(b,a){if(!b[a]){var c=[];b[a]=function(){c.push([c.slice.call(arguments),e.d(),d.ue_id])};b[a].replay=function(b){for(var a;a=c.shift();)b(a[0],a[1],a[2])};b[a].isStub=1}};e.exec=function(b,a){return function(){try{return b.apply(this,arguments)}catch(c){ueLogError(c,{attribution:a||"undefined",logLevel:"WARN"})}}}})(ue_csm); var ue_err_chan = 'jserr-rw';(function(d,e){function h(f,b){if(!(a.ec>a.mxe)&&f){a.ter.push(f);b=b||{};var c=f.logLevel||b.logLevel;c&&c!==k&&c!==m&&c!==n&&c!==p||a.ec++;c&&c!=k||a.ecf++;b.pageURL=""+(e.location?e.location.href:"");b.logLevel=c;b.attribution=f.attribution||b.attribution;a.erl.push({ex:f,info:b})}}function l(a,b,c,e,g){d.ueLogError({m:a,f:b,l:c,c:""+e,err:g,fromOnError:1,args:arguments},g?{attribution:g.attribution,logLevel:g.logLevel}:void 0);return!1}var k="FATAL",m="ERROR",n="WARN",p="DOWNGRADED",a={ec:0,ecf:0,pec:0,ts:0,erl:[],ter:[],mxe:50,startTimer:function(){a.ts++;setInterval(function(){d.ue&&a.pec"" Show more