Synopses & Reviews
This volume contains almost all the 763 letters Lawrence wrote in the last fifteen months of his life with an introduction, maps, notes, illustrations, chronology and index. Lawrence corresponded with publishers and agents, regarding Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Escaped Cock and Pansies. He wrote no new fiction, but there were paintings, poems, essays, newspaper articles, and his last work Apocalypse. There were dramatic episodes with the seizure of his Pansies manuscript, and the police raid on the exhibition of his paintings at a London gallery, with its subsequent trial.
Review
"...what a continuously useful, revealing, clarifying set of facts, insights and sidelights--literary, critical, biographical--is provided by this magnificent haul of 5,534 letters in these stupendously well edited volumes. This collection, surely, ranks among the very best gatherings of modern literary letters. All praise to the Cambridge University Press and to James T. Boulton--who has had a hand in each volume--and to Keith Sagar, who has joined Boulton in steering Volume Seven, 1928-30 along." Valentine Cunningham, Times Literary Supplement"This edition of Lawrence's letters will stand as a monument of modern literary scholarship; all research collections should own it." Library Journal"Essential to the literary scholar, the Cambridge edition will also serve the general reader by assembling in an attractive, reliable, and complete format the correspondence of one of the century's most passionate and enduring voices." Magill's Literary Annual
Synopsis
This final volume of The Letters of D. H. Lawrence has a threefold purpose: to publish 148 letters to or from Lawrence that came to light too late to be entered in their correct chronological positions in earlier volumes; to correct errors in the first seven volumes and offer additional annotation; and--most importantly--to provide a comprehensive critical index to the entire edition. The Cambridge Edition of Lawrence's letters has been described as creating itself a major new literary work. This volume brings that work to a fitting conclusion.
Synopsis
This volume contains almost all of the letters D. H. Lawrence wrote in the last fifteen months of his life. Despite his failing strength, Lawrence was in constant communication with publishers and agents. He continued to write frequently to his sisters and friends. There is no new fiction for Lawrence to discuss, but there are paintings, poems, and the major essays Pornography and Obscenity and A Propos of âLady Chatterleyâs Loverâ. The volume includes an introduction, maps, illustrations, chronology and index; full notes identify persons and explain Lawrenceâs allusions.
Synopsis
This volume contains almost all of the letters D. H. Lawrence wrote in the last fifteen months of his life. Despite his failing strength, Lawrence was in constant communication with publishers and agents. He continued to write frequently to his sisters and friends. There is no new fiction for Lawrence to discuss, but there are paintings, poems, and the major essays Pornography and Obscenity and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. The volume includes an introduction, maps, illustrations, chronology and index; full notes identify persons and explain Lawrence's allusions.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Lawrence: a chronology, 1928-1930; Maps; Introduction; Letters 4750-5534; Index.