English writer and poet (1885–1930)
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He wrote novels so frank about sex and class that courts tried to ban them — four times. A century later, the censorship trials are what made Lawrence required reading, but the provocation was never the point: he was mapping the wreckage modernity left in the body.
David Herbert Lawrence was born 11 September 1885 in England and spent his career writing against the grain of industrial society, insisting that vitality and instinct mattered more than convention. Sons and Lovers arrived in 1913, then The Rainbow in 1915 and Women in Love in 1920 — each one radical enough in its treatment of romance and sexuality to draw censors. By the time Lady Chatterley's Lover appeared in 1928, with its explicit language and unvarnished desire, Lawrence had already left England for what he called a "savage enough pilgrimage" through voluntary exile. He died 2 March 1930…
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California is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific.
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it
The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents.
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!
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