D. H. Lawrence: Poet

This new collection of Keith Sagar's writings on the

poetry of D H Lawrence includes many new

interpretations of well-known poems. It ends with a

year-by-year checklist of reviews and criticism of

Lawrence’s poems, from 1913 to the present.

Though much has been written about Lawrence's

poetry (as revealed by the several hundred entries

in the book's checklist of criticism), there have been

relatively few full length studies. This book deals

with the whole range of his poetry from his earliest

poems, such as 'To Campions' and 'To Guelder

Roses', through the poems inspired by his

elopement with and subsequent marriage to Frieda

Weekley (Look! We Have Come Through!), to the

mature achievement, in free verse forms inspired by

Walt Whitman, of Birds, Beasts and Flowers,

Pansies and Last Poems. The genesis of the poems

in Lawrence's life is explored; and there are new

interpretations of his most memorable poems, such

as 'The Wild Common', 'Piano', 'Song of a Man Who

Has Come Through', Tortoises, 'Peach',

'Pomegranate', 'Snake', 'Bavarian Gentians' and

'The Ship of Death'.