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About the book:
A compact gathering of Lawrence's verse less performed than his novels, but carrying the same raw, anti-pious sensibility into shorter, often stranger forms.
Snake and Bavarian Gentians alone justify the volume.
This particular printing carries its original South African price tag (R0.60) on the back, a small artefact of its own early-70s Penguin, just past the UK's currency changeover.
Condition:
Great secondhand condition.
Mild shelf wear.
Age related tanning to pages.
All pages well bound and intact.
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About the author:
D.H. Lawrence (1885 to 1930)
Born David Herbert Lawrence in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885 to a coal miner father and a refined mother, D.H. Lawrence grew up in the tension between industrial working-class life and intellectual aspiration. He trained as a teacher but turned to writing after his early novels gained attention. His life was marked by restless travel (Italy, Australia, Mexico, New Mexico) and a fierce opposition to industrial modernity.
His early success came with Sons and Lovers (1913), but it was works like The Rainbow (1915) and Women in Love (1920) that established his reputation. Lawrence developed a passionate, poetic prose style that emphasized the physical, emotional, and sexual dimensions of human experience. He wrote with prophetic intensity and often challenged conventional morality.
Deeply influenced by the Bible, Thomas Hardy, Friedrich Nietzsche, and his own experiences of class and sexuality, Lawrence in turn became one of the most controversial and influential writers of the 20th century. He profoundly shaped modernist literature and is adjacent to (and influenced) authors like Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Aldous Huxley, John Fowles, Margaret Atwood, and later writers exploring sexuality, nature, the body, and the critique of industrial society. His work remains central to discussions of modernism, gender, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.
Recurring preoccupations include the vitality of the body and instinct, the destructive effects of industrial civilization, the relationship between men and women, class conflict, and the search for a more authentic way of living. Major works include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterleys Lover, and numerous poems and essays.
Lawrence died of tuberculosis in France in 1930 at the age of 44. Many of his works were banned or censored during his lifetime.
D.H. Lawrences influence on literature is immense: he helped liberate the novel from Victorian restraint, championing the importance of the body, instinct, and emotional truth while remaining utterly unique in his passionate, visionary, and often prophetic voice.
