D.H. Lawrence
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| Title | : | The Complete Poems (Poetry Library) |
| Author | : | D.H. Lawrence |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 704 pages |
| Published | : | August 5th 1994 by Wordsworth Editions (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Fiction |
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With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury.Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents of the two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he died in 1930.
It therefore allows the reader to trace the development of Lawrence as a poet and appreciate the remarkable originality and distinctiveness of his achievement. Not all the poems reprinted here are masterpieces but there is more than enough quality to confirm Lawrence's status as one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century.
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| Original Title: | The Complete Poems |
| ISBN: | 1853264172 (ISBN13: 9781853264177) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 1673 Users | 33 ReviewsWrite Up Based On Books The Complete Poems (Poetry Library)
4.9 stars!There's a rose in that man's prose! And a Poe in his Poems. Most talented Modernist? Maybe. Lawrence wrote five fantastic novels. Wrote my favorite short story ever- "The Rocking Horse Winner". Wrote my favorite poem ever-"The Wild Common" is worth the price of this collection. Resplendent rhymes. Yes, they rhyme. Takes the prize.Awesome Poet!!!! Here is one of the poems I loved. It's short. Self-PityI never saw a wild thing/sorry for itself./A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough/without ever having felt sorry for itself.
SorrowWhy does the thin grey strandFloating up from the forgottenCigarette between my fingers,Why does it trouble me?Ah, you will understand;When I carried my mother downstairs,A few times only, at the beginning Of her soft-foot malady,I should find, for a reprimandTo my gaiety, a few long grey hairsOn the breast of my coat; and one by oneI watched them float up the dark chimney.
Reading this book was an epic experience in my life. I read it kind of slow. It's really like reading someone's journal. There's just a strange powerful energy to it. Most of the poems aren't great by themselves, but together they gain all these strange momentums, they start to take you over. Some of his short ones are his best.
I'm not entirely sure that every poem in here needed to be published, but it was a complete collection and read over the course of many, many months, worth the effort in my opinion.
love'One thing is certain, we've got to take hands off love.the moment i swear to love a woman all my life that very moment i begin to hate her.In the same way, if i swore to hate a woman all my life, I should instantly feel a pang of compunctionAmounting almost to love.' D. H. Lawrence
Far better than his far more famous novels. Bitter and randy but often sensational, bringing flowers Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flowerdown the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on bluenessdown the way Persephone goes, just now, in first-frosted Septemberto the sightless realm where darkness is married to darkand Persephone herself is but a voice, as a bridea gloom invisible enfolded in the deeper darkof the arms of
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