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“... smug elitism than laughter.’ Judging by his comments on Larkin’s dad’s admiration for D.H. Lawrence as well as Hitler, Bradford has brought himself up to speed on John Carey’s The Intellectuals and the Masses (1992). Not liking modernism and not wanting to be taken for poncy literary types were Amis-Larkin stances too, and proudly despising ...”

“... all his serious efforts, the Rev. Crace remains rather amusing – in the same way that, say, D.H. Lawrence, the Most Rev., was rather amusing. To be holy is to be ridiculous, and also to lack a sense of the ridiculous. After a lifetime’s searching, Lawrence finally found some kindred spirits, a people worthy of ...”

“... Woolf’s nomination), the works of Jane Austen, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, Dickens’s Hard Times and half of Daniel Deronda. The ‘great tradition’ doubtless stands for something much less rigorous in Mr Patten’s mind, but it is nevertheless likely to deny to early adolescents the opportunity of enjoying some of the ...”

“... of imperturbability, and rejected it in Joyce as much as in Browning. His arguments against D.H. Lawrence in Paleface, and against Hemingway, the ‘dumb ox’ of Men without Art, are much less cogent, more routine hobby-horses. The case against Hemingway is particularly unconvincing, because Lewis compares his style with random examples of genuine ...”

“... still writhing ecstatically in the coils of those onanistic periods – as the Bloomsburied D.H. Lawrence discovered his Nottinghamshire self in the words of Dana, Cooper and Melville that he had read as a boy. But Lawrence was able to turn the rhetoric of these books-for-boys into Classic American Literature, while Donald ...”

“... before Life’, and the religious idiom here is wholly calculated. It is inherited from D.H. Lawrence, for whom the novel was the ‘Book of Life’, the sacred scripture of a post-metaphysical social order. ‘Life’ for both Lawrence and Leavis is a transcendent rather than empirical affair, a matter of laying ...”

“... grew almost beyond bearing – a wonder and a pain.’ The novel also records the death of D.H. Lawrence. Aldous Huxley ‘flattered our intellects’ but ‘Lawrence made us face what was in the dark of ourselves, whether we liked it or not.’ Ned is dismissive: ‘Anyone could do that if they put in all the dirty ...”

“... of Croydon as a Motif in English Literature’, and log every instance, all the way from D.H. Lawrence and Anna Wickham through John Betjeman to Martin Amis, of one single placename’s use to connote a vast tundra of anodyne, apathetic anonymity. Here, though, Croydon is exactly where you’d expect Lodge to make his couple come from: a prompt for often ...”

“... group portrait with Spender and Auden in Rügen? He cites the pair of Margaret Thatcher and D.H. Lawrence as Larkin’s main men, refers to the ‘crappy brainwaves’ of Spurs chairman Irving Scholar and the ‘uncolourful speech’ of Andrew Motion, putting me immediately in mind of the ‘brown teapot’ in his Arvon Prize-winning poem of 1990, ‘A ...”

“... since, for ten years from 1921 onwards, he never exhibited; Pound demoralised and, like D.H. Lawrence, abandoning the England on which he had centred his hopes for a new age; Pound in Italy swallowing Mussolini whole. These were the sad facts of the Twenties. Looking at a passage like that, we can more easily understand why Tomlinson has been ...”

“... of energy and his paranoia – Campbell resembled two other, more important contemporaries, D.H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis. And like them at their least controlled, he demonstrated in his life and work two basic points: that energy alone, taken as a human value, leads to something very like fascism; and that paranoia is fatal to even the most gifted artist ...”

“... Yet even here George Eliot makes us experience the erotic nature of the scene. Anticipating D.H. Lawrence, she gives us sexual passion in terms borrowed from non-human nature: ‘Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to ...”

“... drive home a point. There was Gordon Wasson on mushrooms, William Emboden on narcotic plants, D.H. Lawrence on meeting interesting women, and Marcel Proust babbling about French society in a most peculiar syntax. I’d never heard of any of these writers; the slow-rising central horror of education in Middle America is that Great Expectations and that hollow ...”

“... He intimates at one point that, in spite of all the Nietzschean rubbish he came out with, D.H. Lawrence had some sensuous merit, and Carey has a fondness for James Joyce that enables him to play down that author’s mutterings against the ‘trolls’ and ‘rabblement’ of Ireland. But it is not clear that he reckons many of the others – Eliot, Aldous ...”

“... attribute quotations and the book has no notes. He compares her early work vaguely to that of D.H. Lawrence, and taking his cue from Kavan’s own comments, sees the influence of Alain Robbe-Girllet in the later. He maintains that ‘the sensibility of an addict permeates and informs the work of Anna Kavan’ but shows no understanding of what this ...”