Remembering D. H. Lawrence on his birthday 🎂
📷 Edward Weston, 1924
@NPGLondon
"Lawrence, in the English language, was the great genius of our time (I mean the age, or climatic phase, following Conrad's)."
- F. R. Leavis
D.H. Lawrence is Mark Rampion in Aldous Huxley's Point Counterpoint, while the character Philip Quarles is Huxley's self-portrait. The two listen to Beethoven together in the novel.
This photo is possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
@NPGLondon
Photo of Lawrence in Taos NM, from Mabel Dodge's scrapbook
"Lawrence’s formal accomplishment, less obvious at a glance than Joyce’s or Woolf’s, is to narrate beneath the stream of consciousness, & chart subterranean currents of feeling as they shift & swell."
- Benjamin Kunkel
Reading D.H. Lawrence on the Tube
November 3, 1960, the day Lady Chatterley went on sale in the UK
"The verdict was a crucial step towards the freedom of the written word, at least for works of literary merit."
- Geoffrey Robertson
Helen E Hokinson
@NewYorker
December 31, 1932
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