D. H. Lawrence, artist & rebel

the long version

This book focuses more on the work rather than on the author. Yet because Lawrence's fiction is so personal, so intensely felt, it reflects the man and the artist. Biographical insights are gained through Lawrence the writer, the Midlands intellectual, the world-traveling Bohemian and controversial firebrand. Lawrence's highly individual vitalistic philosophy, at wa with "anti-life" forces, emerges here clearly. With prophetic instinct, Lawrence's imagination led him to project both fascism and socialism conclusively.