D.H. Lawrence

Dawid Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) - angielski pisarz, eseista, podróżnik, autor m.in "Kochanka Lady Chatterley" zawsze był pisarzem obrazoburczym, skandalistą swojej epoki. Zmagał się z cenzurą, zwalczał pruderyjne obyczaje, opiewał erotyzm, bodaj jako pierwszy w literaturze skupia się na erotycznych doznaniach kobiety, opisuje wspólny orgazm. W ostatniej powieści Człowiek, który umarł, wydanej niecały...

Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of...

In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century. The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within...

Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents of the two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he died in 1930. It therefore...