“Each forgot everything save the hatred of the other.”
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D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lov…
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culture · English writer and poet (1885–1930) · playwright · translator · writer · poet · novelist · painter · screenwriter · literary critic · librettist · also D. H. Lawrence, Lawrence H. Davison, D.H. Lawrence, D. H. Lorenss, D. G. Lourens, David Herbert Richards Lawrence
Born 11 September 1885 · Died 2 March 1930 · Q34970
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2026· 4 entries
“another seat of consciousness than the brain and nerves. There is a blood consciousness which exists in us independently of the ordinary mental consciousness. One lives, knows and has one”
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“I believe a good form of socialism, if it could be brought about, would be the best form of government.”
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The Guardian: Andrew Miller: ‘DH Lawrence forced me to my feet – I was madly excited’
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: In the footsteps of DH Lawrence: across the Alps from Germany to Italy
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2023· 2 entries
Moviefone: D.H. Lawrence: Sex, Exile And Greatness - Where to Watch
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The Guardian: Why Prince Harry’s book reminds me of DH Lawrence | Brief letters
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: Poem of the week: Grey Evening by DH Lawrence
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The Guardian: Look! We Have Come Through! by Lara Feigel review – in lockdown with DH Lawrence
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2021· 1 entry
The Boston Globe: A new D.H. Lawrence biography sharpens the focus
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1994· 2 entries
“I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder.”
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“To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort⎯⎯⎯to live effortless, a kind of curious sleep⎯⎯⎯that is very beautiful, I think; that is our after-life⎯⎯⎯our immortality.”
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1961· 1 entry
Contains a publisher's dedication, which reads: "For having published this book, Penguin Books were prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act, 1959 at the Old Bailey in London from 20 October to 2 November 1960
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1960· 1 entry
The trial of Penguin under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 became a major public event and a test of the new obscenity law
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1959· 1 entry
And in Britain in 1960, and subsequent publication of the full text, ensured Lawrence's popularity (and notoriety) with a wider public
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1953· 1 entry
Recalling his relationship with Lawrence in the First World War, Russell characterised Lawrence as a "proto-German Fascist", saying "I was a firm believer in democracy, whereas he had developed the whole philosophy of Fa
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1935· 1 entry
Ravagli arranged, on Frieda's behalf, to have Lawrence's body exhumed and cremated
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1930· 6 entries
Died 1930-03-02.
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“If men were as much men as lizards are lizards they'd be worth looking at. (ang.)”
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“I 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.”
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Just eleven days after his death, his last work Nettles was a series of bitter, nettling but often wry attacks on the moral climate of England
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“Tylko ci, którzy sami kochają, znajdują miłość i wcale nie muszą jej szukać.”
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“Co do miłości, spartaczyliśmy tę sprawę do cna,odkąd zrobiliśmy z niej ideał.Gdy przysięgam kobiecie, określonej kobiecie, dozgonną miłość,w tym samym momencie zaczynam jej nienawidzić.”
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1929· 1 entry
“Now then we see the trend of our civilization, in terms of human feeling and human relation. It is, and there is no denying it, towards a greater and greater abstraction from the physical, towards a further and further physical separateness between men and women, and between individual and individual.... It only remains for some men and women, individuals, to try to get back their bodies and preserve the other flow of warmth, affection and physical unison. There is nothing else to do.”
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1928· 1 entry
Develops the theme of leadership that Lawrence also explored in novels such as Kangaroo and The Plumed Serpent and the story Fanny and Annie
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1925· 1 entry
“Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine”
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1924· 2 entries
Lawrence wrote an epilogue to Movements in European History (a textbook he wrote, originally published in 1921) in which he denounced fascism and Soviet-style socialism as bullying and "a mere worship of Force"
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From Dodge Luhan in exchange for the manuscript of Sons and Lovers
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1923· 1 entry
Published Studies in Classic American Literature, which Edmund Wilson described as "one of the few first-rate books that have ever been written on the subject"
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1920· 2 entries
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1920).
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“I don't think I love you as a man ought to love his wife”
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1916· 1 entry
And in the UK in 1920, in an amateur production
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1915· 1 entry
To Willie Hopkin, his old socialist friend from Eastwood: I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort o
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1913· 3 entries
And hailed as a vivid portrait of the realities of working class provincial life
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Though it was not staged until 1967, when it was well received
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For a short visit, during which they encountered and befriended critic John Middleton Murry and New Zealand-born short story writer Katherine Mansfield
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1912· 1 entry
Lawrence wrote the first of his so-called "mining plays", The Daughter-in-Law, written in Nottingham dialect
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1911· 1 entry
Lawrence was introduced to Edward Garnett, a publisher's reader, who acted as a mentor and became a valued friend, as did his son David
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1910· 1 entry
Lawrence's mother died of cancer, leaving him devastated
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1908· 1 entry
Lawrence voiced support for eugenics by the method of a "lethal chamber" to dispose of "all the sick, the halt, the maimed"
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1904· 1 entry
And two of his poems, "Dreams Old" and "Dreams Nascent", were among his earliest published works in The English Review
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1901· 1 entry
Working for three months as a junior clerk at Haywood's surgical appliances factory, but a severe bout of pneumonia ended this career
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-09-11.
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