- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (29 Aug 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140081054
- ISBN-13: 978-0140081053
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 14.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 97,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An excellent work, from the finest of all Lawrence's advocates. Sagar's writing is as compelling, almost, as Lawrence's. Insight follows insight. The prose is, as always with Sagar, succinct, direct and illuminating. And there is a warmth and inevitability about the writing which other critics simply do not have in the same degree. Leavis was marvellous for his pioneering work, but with Sagar you seem intimately connected to what ever work he is describing, you are right there on Lawrence's shoulder and simply cannot wait for the next insight that is coming.
This work is especially valuable in that it includes close examinations of works often neglected or overlooked; namely: the early plays, which have some very fine writing in them, esp: A Collier's Friday Night & The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd. It also focuses on the poems, St Mawr (& great companion piece to Kermode's work) and the late moving prose works, Etruscan Places, Escaped Cock as well as looking at the experiences that led up to and formed Lawrence's three major masterpieces: Sons & Lovers, The Rainbow & Women in Love.
This book is essential to any lover of Lawrence. For it looks at those events that changed Lawrence, or altered his perspective, or ultimately freed him to become the great luminary he was.
This work is especially valuable in that it includes close examinations of works often neglected or overlooked; namely: the early plays, which have some very fine writing in them, esp: A Collier's Friday Night & The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd. It also focuses on the poems, St Mawr (& great companion piece to Kermode's work) and the late moving prose works, Etruscan Places, Escaped Cock as well as looking at the experiences that led up to and formed Lawrence's three major masterpieces: Sons & Lovers, The Rainbow & Women in Love.
This book is essential to any lover of Lawrence. For it looks at those events that changed Lawrence, or altered his perspective, or ultimately freed him to become the great luminary he was.
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D.H. Lawrence and his diaries
18 Sep 2000
Format:Hardcover
Among the books that so far have appaeared this is a ilustrated biography by Keith Sagar, already known as editor of Lawrence selected poems. It was in it s last print a glossy, large and lavishly illustrated book that could have been easily dismiss as another 'coffee table' volume; but the book is in fact much more than that. The biography takes us to meet intelectuals and aristocrats, writers and artist, pesants and peons, bohemians and bankers as Lawrence travels from London and Cornwall, Germany and Italy, New Mexico, Ceylon and Australia. But although we are taken on a usual conducted biographical tour we are not taken in a usual way. What mr Sagar has done is novel and get us nearer to Lawrence the human. He has told this life by means of stracts, mainly from Lawrence's writings specially from letters and diaries.
There is alot that is of interest and quite instructing such as his strong emotional dependence to Frida while at the same time attempting to from a spiritual community... his Ramanim who he needed to believe was possible to form if he was to retain any faith in humanity and the human future. A good book but in the end a sad story he gives, of one man who's writings are now part of the English lemguage heritage, writings, that will remain read perhaps for centuries to come.
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