Jan 07 2009
Books and D.H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, short-story writer and a poet. He is simply known as D.H. Lawrence, and famous for his novels Sons and Lovers and Women in Love, and of course, the controversial book at the time, Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
The mother of Lawrence had a taste of books, and it’s not surprising that books became an accepted part of the Lawrence children.
In his student life, he greatly admired Horace and Virgil, Baudelaire and Verlaine. His love for books was equally shared with his childhood friend, Jessie Chambers, also considered his first girl friend. These two shared equal passions for books which D.H. Lawrence carried throughout his life.
Chambers kept a list of authors that she read with Lawrence. Their primary source was Palgrave’s “Golden Treasury.” They also read authors like Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rossetti, and Browning, among others.
“The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.”
-D.H. Lawrence-
What good books have you read lately? It would be encouraging to include the habit of regularly reading a good book in our list of New Year’s resolutions.
