44 Facts About DH Lawrence

David Herbert DH Lawrence was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist.

DH Lawrence roamed out from an early age in the patches of open, hilly country and remaining fragments of Sherwood Forest in Felley woods to the north of Eastwood, beginning a lifelong appreciation of the natural world, and he often wrote about "the country of my heart" as a setting for much of his fiction.

DH Lawrence left in 1901, working for three months as a junior clerk at Haywood's surgical appliances factory, but a severe bout of pneumonia ended this career.

DH Lawrence went on to become a full-time student and received a teaching certificate from University College, Nottingham, in 1908.

In 1911, DH Lawrence was introduced to Edward Garnett, a publisher's reader, who acted as a mentor and became a valued friend, as did his son David.

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In November 1911, DH Lawrence came down with a pneumonia again; once recovered, he abandoned teaching in order to become a full-time writer.

In March 1912, DH Lawrence met Frieda Weekley, with whom he was to share the rest of his life.

However, she and DH Lawrence eloped and left England for Frieda's parents' home in Metz, a garrison town near the disputed border with France.

DH Lawrence experienced his first encounter with tensions between Germany and France when he was arrested and accused of being a British spy, before being released following an intervention from Frieda's father.

DH Lawrence and Frieda returned to Britain in 1913 for a short visit, during which they encountered and befriended critic John Middleton Murry and New Zealand-born short story writer Katherine Mansfield.

DH Lawrence was immediately captivated by Davies and later invited him to visit them in Germany.

However, despite this early enthusiasm for Davies' work, DH Lawrence's opinion changed after reading Foliage; whilst in Italy, he disparaged Nature Poems, calling them "so thin, one can hardly feel them".

DH Lawrence worked on adapting Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurism into English.

In late 1917, after constant harassment by the armed forces and other authorities, DH Lawrence was forced to leave Cornwall at three days' notice under the terms of the Defence of the Realm Act.

DH Lawrence spent a few months of early 1918 in the small, rural village of Hermitage near Newbury, Berkshire.

DH Lawrence escaped from Britain at the earliest practical opportunity and returned only twice for brief visits, spending the remainder of his life travelling with Frieda.

Many of these places appear in DH Lawrence's writings, including The Lost Girl, Aaron's Rod and the fragment titled Mr Noon .

DH Lawrence wrote novellas such as The Captain's Doll, The Fox and The Ladybird.

DH Lawrence is often considered one of the finest travel writers in English.

Less well known is his eighty-four page introduction to Maurice Magnus's 1924 Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, in which DH Lawrence recalls his visit to the monastery of Monte Cassino.

DH Lawrence's other nonfiction books include two responses to Freudian psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious; Movements in European DH Lawrence'story, a school textbook published under a pseudonym, is a reflection of Lawrence's blighted reputation in Britain.

DH Lawrence had several times discussed the idea of setting up a utopian community with several of his friends, having written in 1915 to Willie Hopkin, his old socialist friend from Eastwood:.

DH Lawrence produced the collection of linked travel essays that became Mornings in Mexico.

Brief voyage to England at the end of 1923 was a failure and DH Lawrence soon returned to Taos, convinced his life as an author now lay in the United States.

DH Lawrence was dangerously ill and the poor health limited his ability to travel for the remainder of his life.

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DH Lawrence continued to produce short stories and other works of fiction such as The Escaped Cock, an unorthodox reworking of the story of Jesus Christ's Resurrection.

DH Lawrence's last significant work was a reflection on the Book of Revelation, Apocalypse.

DH Lawrence is best known for his novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

In particular DH Lawrence is concerned with the nature of relationships that can be had within such a setting.

DH Lawrence was very interested in the sense of touch, and his focus on physical intimacy has its roots in a desire to restore an emphasis on the body and rebalance it with what he perceived to be Western civilization's overemphasis on the mind; writing in a 1929 essay "Men Must Work and Women As Well, " he stated,.

DH Lawrence wrote almost 800 poems, most of them relatively short.

DH Lawrence set forth his manifesto for much of his later verse in the introduction to New Poems.

DH Lawrence rewrote some of his early poems when they were collected in 1928.

DH Lawrence felt all poems had to be personal sentiments, and that a sense of spontaneity was vital.

DH Lawrence called one collection of poems Pansies, partly for the simple ephemeral nature of the verse, but as a pun on the French word panser, to dress or bandage a wound.

DH Lawrence wrote The Daughter-in-Law in 1913, though it was not staged until 1967, when it was well received.

DH Lawrence wrote Touch and Go towards the end of World War I, and his last play, David, in 1925.

DH Lawrence's paintings were exhibited at the Warren Gallery in London's Mayfair in 1929.

Critics such as Terry Eagleton have argued that DH Lawrence was right wing due to his lukewarm attitude to democracy, which he intimated would tend towards the leveling down of society and the subordination of the individual to the sensibilities of the "average" man.

However, in 1924 DH Lawrence wrote an epilogue to Movements in European History in which he denounced fascism and Soviet-style socialism as bullying and “a mere worship of Force”.

In general, though, DH Lawrence disliked any organized groupings, and in his essay Democracy, written in the late twenties, he argued for a new kind of democracy in which.

DH Lawrence went all over the world, he owned a ranch, he lived in the most beautiful corners of Europe, and met whom he wanted to meet and told them that they were wrong and he was right.

DH Lawrence wrote something like three dozen books, of which even the worst page dances with life that could be mistaken for no other man's, while the best are admitted, even by those who hate him, to be unsurpassed.

DH Lawrence would have laughed lightly and cursed venomously in passing at the solemn owls—each one secretly chained by the leg—who now conduct his inquest.