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This collection includes all the poems from the incomplete "Collected Poems" of 1929 and from the separate smaller volumes issued during Lawrence's lifetime; uncollected poems; an appendix of juvenilia and another containing variants and early drafts; and all Lawrence's critical introductions to his poems. It also includes full textual and explanatory notes.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This comprehensive book contains almost one thousand pages of poetry including the popular 'Birds, Beasts and Flowers', 'Look we have come through' and 'Pansies'.
Lawrence had a rare gift for creating unique poetry. His work is passionate and deeply philosophical. Significantly, he was a critic for a new era; despairing of industrialism and materialism. His writing forces our eyes open to the natural world; to the fact that we are naturally connected to the cosmos and not to a machine. There is beauty and there is power and although there is also bitterness, if it were not for the passion of the man, we would not benefit from his genius art.
Lawrence had a rare gift for creating unique poetry. His work is passionate and deeply philosophical. Significantly, he was a critic for a new era; despairing of industrialism and materialism. His writing forces our eyes open to the natural world; to the fact that we are naturally connected to the cosmos and not to a machine. There is beauty and there is power and although there is also bitterness, if it were not for the passion of the man, we would not benefit from his genius art.
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41 of 46 people found the following review helpful
To this reader, poems and essays of DHL are his best works.
3 Oct 1998
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This book of poems shares the top spot in my bookcase with Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". They are accessible, highly perceptive, pertinent and intensely personal. My favorites are:
"FIDELITY" - "...The wonderful slow flow of the sapphire..."
"GOD IS BORN" - "...And so we see, God is not until he is born. And also we see there is no end to the birth of God."
"SHIP OF DEATH" (Appendix III version) - "...Pulling the long oars of a lifetime's courage, ...and eating the brave bread of a wholesome knowledge..."
"GRIEF" - "...How am I clotted together Out of this soft matrix... The air, the flowing sunshine and bright dust..."
"WEDLOCK" - "...How sure the future is within me. I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed..."
Finally, as a scientist I marvel at his intuitive grasp of relativity in "SPACE" and "RELATIVITY" - ..."As if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind."
I would be delighted to share my enthusiasm with other readers.
31 of 38 people found the following review helpful
A must for all Special Forces.
9 Jan 1999
Format:Paperback
This is the best book that i have. It is a must read for all who can read and all Special Forces. It put life on hold as you read it.
The most moving is "self pity"
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. --D. H. Lawrence
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
D.H.
15 Sep 2003
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I became acquainted with Lawrence's novels my sophomore year in college, and was hooked. A couple of years down the line, a professor recommended I take a look at his poetry, which he suggested was equally great, if not greater. He said he was like a British Whitman. Investigating the analogy, I came across this quote of Lawrence's: "Whitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman, the one man breaking a way ahead. Whitman, the one pioneer. And only Whitman. No English pioneers, no French. No European pioneer-poets. In Europe the would-be pioneers are mere innovators. The same in America. Ahead of Whitman, nothing. Ahead of all poets, pioneering into the wilderness of unopened life, Whitman. Beyond him, none." Hyperbolic? Could be, and I'm admittedly a poor judge of poetry, much of it passing over my head, but there is more than enough in this hefty 1,000+ page paperback edition to convince me of Lawrence's greatness in verse. The book is split into "Rhyming poems," "Unrhyming poems," "Pansies," "Nettles," "Last poems" and "Uncollected poems." A couple of the shorter ones--
SUNSET
"There is a band of dull gold in the west, and say what you like
again and again some god of evening leans out of it
and shares being with me, silkily
all of twilight."
REVOLUTIONS AS SUCH!
"Curiously enough, actual revolutions are made by robots,
living people never make revolutions,
they can't, life means too much to them."
TALK OF FAITH
"And people who talk about faith
usually want to force somebody to agree with them,
as if there was safety in numbers, even for faith."
LUCIFER
"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
But tell me, tell me, how do you know
that he lost any of his brightness in falling?
He only fell out of your ken, you orthodox angels,
you dull angels, tarnished with centuries of conventionality."
SUNSET
"There is a band of dull gold in the west, and say what you like
again and again some god of evening leans out of it
and shares being with me, silkily
all of twilight."
REVOLUTIONS AS SUCH!
"Curiously enough, actual revolutions are made by robots,
living people never make revolutions,
they can't, life means too much to them."
TALK OF FAITH
"And people who talk about faith
usually want to force somebody to agree with them,
as if there was safety in numbers, even for faith."
LUCIFER
"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
But tell me, tell me, how do you know
that he lost any of his brightness in falling?
He only fell out of your ken, you orthodox angels,
you dull angels, tarnished with centuries of conventionality."
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