D. H. Lawrence

James Fenton

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Selected Poems

A selection of poems by D.H. Lawrence selected by James Fenton

Essays Chosen and Introduced by Geoff Dyer

Life with a Capital L

D. H. Lawrence and Italy

Selected Stories

The Rainbow

Il Duro

Sons and Lovers

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The Woman Who Rode Away, St. Mawr,  The Princess

The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird

The Virgin and the Gipsy

Sea and Sardinia

Apocalypse

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories

Studies in Classic American Literature

Part of a series of new editions of Lawrence's works

David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire in 1885. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor's wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence's lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1925 Lawrence's final novel, Lady Chatterly's Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.<br/>
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James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondence, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-99.

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D. H. Lawrence

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