DH Lawrence critical quotes Flashcards
Anne Fernihough
Suggests DH Lawrence was not anti-modernist but enagagd in a ‘parallel project’
Hugh Stevens - DH Lawrence and the war
Lawrence blamed the war for the ‘the passing of an old organic England, which is supplanted by modernity’
Morag Schiach
Lawrence insists on ‘a version of selfhood that encompasses our physicality’
What does DH Lawrence say about life as a whole?
‘life seems to me barbarous, recklessly wasteful and destructive…but on the whole beautiful’
What does DH Lawrnece say happened in 1915
‘in 1915 the old world ended…became a vortex of broken passions’
What does DH Lawrence say about trench warfare?
‘trench and machine warfare…a blasphemy against life itself’
What does Lawrence say about class?
He ‘cannot transfer from my own class into the middle class…forfeit my affinity with my fellow-men and..the land’
What does Lawrence say about tale vs artist
‘never trust the artist. trust the tale’
Interpretation of reader important
What does Lawrence call Freud?
“the psychiatric quack”
What does Lawrence stress ‘above everything’?
‘individual liberty above everything’
What does Lawrence stress that his aim was?
‘To know the feelings inside a man, and to make new feelings conscious’
What does Brook Miller say Lawrence strives to portray?
‘The totality of consciousness’
How does Mike Spilka suggest Lawrence works?
By ‘revealing something about man’s inner life by showing him in direct relation with the life around him’
importance of interaction
What does BJ Scherr suggest Lawrence engages in?
‘total valorisation of the individual’
