Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.
Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage". At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." The philosopher Bertrand Russell characterised Lawrence as a "proto-German Fascist". Later, the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness.
D.H. Lawrence is best known for his infamous novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover, ' which was banned in the United States until 1959. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
Table of Contents
The spirit of place -- Benjamin Franklin -- Hector St. John de Cráevecoeur -- Fenimore Cooper's white novels -- Fenimore Cooper's leatherstocking novels -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and The scarlet letter -- Hawthorne's Blithedale romance -- Dana's Two years before the mast -- Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo -- Herman Melville's Moby Dick -- Whitman.