A Preface to D.H. Lawrence

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part One: The Writer and His Setting
	Chronological table
	1 Lawrence\'s life
		Eastwood and Haggs Farm-\'The country of my heart\'
		A college education
		Croydon and London: from teaching to writing
		Frieda Weekley: \'The woman of a lifetime\'
		Journey into Italy
		Return to England
		Italy, and England again: marriage
		The nightmare of the war years
		The years of exile: Sicily, Australia, New Mexico
		Europe once more: death in Vence
	2 The intellectual background
		The novelist as prophet
		Lawrence and provincialism
		Lawrence and provincialism: the example of Hardy
		Lawrence and Romanticism
		Lawrence\'s quarrel with Freud
		Lawrence today
Part Two: Critical Survery
	3 The While Peacock: experience versus expectations
	4 Sons and Lovers
		Life into art: the truth of fiction
		Son and lover: the unmaking of a hero
		The mother as moulder: failure and success
		Women in a man\'s world
		Sons and Lovers and the English novel
	5 The Rainbow
		Story and fable: the biblical framework
		Repetition and variation: Lawrence\'s narrative method
		Diamond, coal and carbon: Lawrence\'s view of character
		The uses of symbolism
		The novelist and the preacher
		Lawrence\'s sense of an ending
	6 Women in Love
	7 The shorter fiction
		\'Odour of Chrysanthemums\'
		\'The Escaped Cock\'/\'The Man Who Died\'
	8 Lawrence\'s poetry
		Look! We Have Come Through!
		Birds, Beasts and Flowers
		\'Pansies\' and \'Nettles\'
		Last Poems
	9 Lawrence as literary critic
		The form and range of Lawrence\'s criticism
		Critical theory and practice
		Literature and life
	10 Lawrence\'s plays
Part Three: Reference Section
	Short biographies
	Gazetteer
	Further reading
Index