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    Complete Poems

    Author D. H. Lawrence
    Edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, Warren F. Roberts
    Paperback
    $30.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    5.1"W x 7.7"H x 1.75"D   | 25 oz | 16 per carton
    On sale Jan 01, 1994 | 1088 Pages | 9780140186574
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    Collected poems from one of the great writers of the 20th century

    This collection includes all the poems from the incomplete "Collected Poems" of 1929 and from the separate smaller volumes issued during Lawrence's lifetime; uncollected poems; an appendix of juvenilia and another containing variants and early drafts; and all Lawrence's critical introductions to his poems. It also includes full textual and explanatory notes.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice. View titles by D. H. Lawrence
    Complete PoemsAcknowledgments
    Introduction: "D. H. Lawrence: Poet without a Mask" by V. de S. Pinto
    Editors' Note on the Text
    Note by D. H. Lawrence (Preface to Collected Poems [1928])
    Rhyming Poems
    "Poetry of the Present" by D. H. Lawrence (Introduction to the American Edition of New Poems [1918]

    Unrhyming Poems
    Look! We Have Come Through!
    Birds, Beasts and Flowers

    Pansies
    Introduction to Pansies by D. H. Lawrence
    Foreword to Pansies by D. H. Lawrence
    Pansies

    Nettles
    Introduction to Last Poems and More Pansies by Richard Aldington

    More Pansies

    Last Poems

    Uncollected Poems
    Poems from The Plumed Serpent
    Additional Pansies

    Appendix I: Foreword to Collected Poems
    Appendix II: Juvenilia
    Appendix III: Variants and Early Drafts
    Appendix IV: Notes
    Glossary
    Index of First Lines
    Index of Titles

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    Collected poems from one of the great writers of the 20th century

    This collection includes all the poems from the incomplete "Collected Poems" of 1929 and from the separate smaller volumes issued during Lawrence's lifetime; uncollected poems; an appendix of juvenilia and another containing variants and early drafts; and all Lawrence's critical introductions to his poems. It also includes full textual and explanatory notes.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Author

    The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice. View titles by D. H. Lawrence

    Table of Contents

    Complete PoemsAcknowledgments
    Introduction: "D. H. Lawrence: Poet without a Mask" by V. de S. Pinto
    Editors' Note on the Text
    Note by D. H. Lawrence (Preface to Collected Poems [1928])
    Rhyming Poems
    "Poetry of the Present" by D. H. Lawrence (Introduction to the American Edition of New Poems [1918]

    Unrhyming Poems
    Look! We Have Come Through!
    Birds, Beasts and Flowers

    Pansies
    Introduction to Pansies by D. H. Lawrence
    Foreword to Pansies by D. H. Lawrence
    Pansies

    Nettles
    Introduction to Last Poems and More Pansies by Richard Aldington

    More Pansies

    Last Poems

    Uncollected Poems
    Poems from The Plumed Serpent
    Additional Pansies

    Appendix I: Foreword to Collected Poems
    Appendix II: Juvenilia
    Appendix III: Variants and Early Drafts
    Appendix IV: Notes
    Glossary
    Index of First Lines
    Index of Titles

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