Writer: D H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence sticks in my craw.

I know he us important but I cannot decide if he still has anything to teach.

The New Statesman published The double life of D. H. Lawrence, a review, which goes a distance to explaining what is good in Lawrence's writing and what we can still learn from him.

...So there’s a contradiction: he sometimes displays acute sensitivity towards his characters and friends, and sometimes kicks them away with almost savage nastiness. Lawrence compels us to recognise that if socialised beings were more honest about the play of instinct from moment to moment, we too might admit our irrational swings.

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...Despite the tuberculosis he contracted in his early forties, and despite the attacks on and bannings of his work, Lawrence remained hopeful. His aim was to realise a vision of how to live: an intimacy with other living things, to be gained by discarding the contrivances of society and its dependence on technology.

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 1/29/22