Edited By Diana Trilling (1956, Paperback) 5th Print
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From behind the cover:
There have been few writers in any era, and certainly none in ours, who have combined, as D. H. Lawrence did, the gifts of the creative heart and the penetrations of the critical intellect. Diana Trilling helps explain his genius when she observes that he was a writer of extraordinary courage: "He asks for readers who match him a little in daring, who are willing to suffer a certain outrage to their accustomed feelings, for the sake of a large new poetic experience." At his death in 1930, Lawrence left behind him close to fifty volumes of novels, long and short stories, plays, poems, essays, and travel journals, not to mention an extensive personal correspondence and a mass of material that has been published posthumously. From this wealth of writing Diana Trilling has chosen a comprehensive selection which provocatively exemplifies Lawrence's scorn of modern civilization, his insistent sexuality, and his assertion of self and "of blood-consciousness" as opposed to "mental-consciousness."
THE CONTENTS: Included among the 12 short stories are "The Prussian Officer" and "The Rocking-Horse Winner." Of the novelettes selected, The Princess was inspired by Lawrence's visit to Mexico ant New Mexico, and The Fox is regarded as one of the most perfectly conceived and sustained of all Lawrence's works. The sections of the two great novels, The Rainbow and Women In Love, can be comfortably read without reference to what precedes or follows them. This volume contains in addition 12 of the most noted poems, 23 of Lawrence's most revealing letters, as well as a generous sampling of his essays, critical writings, and personal accounts of his travels in Mexico, Italy, and other lands of the sun.
DIANA TRILLING, the editor, has contributed also an illuminating critical and biographical introduction.
"In making her selection she has been guided as by a diviner's rod, to what was most vital in Lawrence: the real springs. We are given not necessarily the 'best' of Lawrence, but necessarily the most relevant."
-ELIZABETH BOWEN, New York Times Book Review