Selected Critical Writings'A critic must be able to feel the impact of a work of art in all its complexity and force. To do so, he must be a man of force and complexity himself...' 'A critic must be emotionally alive in every fibre, intellectually capable and skilful in essential logic, and then morally very honest.' These comments by D. H. Lawrence are as close a description as any of himself as a critic. They come from his essay on fellow novelist John Galsworthy, and there are many other pieces on novels and novelists in this selection. But Lawrence's range of genres extends to poetry and plays andpaintings, and his critical writing encompasses an enormous variety of subjects, from Aeschylus and the Apocalypse to symbolism and syphilis, for his nterests are philosophical , psychological, religious, moral, sociological, historical and cultural as well as literary and artistic. This selectionis a treasure-trove of 'thought adventures' by one of literature's liveliest critical spirits. |
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Contents
from Study of Thomas Hardy 1914 | 9 |
Poetry of the Present 1922 | 75 |
The Spirit of Place 1922 | 90 |
Herman Melvilles Typee and Omoo 1922 | 113 |
Herman Melvilles Moby Dick 1922 | 126 |
The Future of the Novel 1923 | 142 |
Review of The Book of Revelation 1924 | 159 |
Morality and the Novel 1925 | 173 |
Why the Novel Matters 1925 | 204 |
Introduction to Mastrodon Gesualdo 1927 | 223 |
Review of Four Contemporary Books 1928 | 243 |
Introduction to These Paintings 1929 | 248 |
Introduction to Pansies 1929 | 284 |
Introduction to The Dragon of the Apocalypse 1930 | 314 |
Explanatory Notes | 327 |
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