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Title: D.H. Lawrence


1
D.H. Lawrence
2
Contents
  • Page 3- History
  • Page 4- Poems
  • Page 5- Short Stories
  • Page 6- Illness
  • Page 7- Travels

3
History
  • David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 in
    Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the fourth child of
    Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall.
  • He attended the student-Teacher Centre in
    Ilkeston from 1904 and in 1906 took up a
    teacher-training scholarship at University
    College, Nottingham.
  • Traveled the world and met his wife in England.

4
Poems
Wife
  • Love poems and others (1913)
  • Amores (1916)
  • Look! We have come through! (1917)
  • New poems (1918)
  • Bay a book of poems (1919)
  • Tortoises (1921)
  • Birds, beasts and flowers (1923)
  • The collected poems of D H Lawrence (1928)
  • Pansies (1929)
  • Nettles (1930)
  • Last poems (1932)
  • Fire and other poems (1940)
  • The complete poems of D H Lawrence (1964)

5
Short Stories
  • The Prussian officer and other stories (1914)
  • England, my England and other stories (1922)
  • The ladybird, the fox, the captain's doll (1923)
  • Sun (1926)
  • Glad ghosts (1926
  • The woman who rode away and other stories (1928)
  • Rawdon's roof (1929)
  • Love among the haystacks and other pieces (1930)

6
Illness
  • A poem like "Nothing to Save" says little of what
    it was like for Lawrence during the last months
    of his life. He felt like almost giving up to
    illness (tuberculosis) and death. Yet, still
    miraculously alive. That was what living meant,
    to him
  • There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a
    tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye
    of a violet. (Comp Poems 658)
  • Dies at Vence in South of France on March 2,
    1930.

7
Travels
  • Death of mother, Lydia Lawrence. Breaks off
    engagement and resigns after lengthy illness
  • Returns to Nottinghamshire. Meets Frieda Weekley
    and elopes with her to Germany and Italy.
  • Returns to England and marries Frieda (July
    1914).
  • Travels to Italy, settling at Fontana Vecchia,
    Taormina, Sicily. Visits to Sardinia and
    Switzerland.
  • Travels to Ceylon and Australia
  • Then to America and settles at Taos, New Mexico.
  • Visits to Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain and
    Italy

8
Works Cited
  • www.poets.org
  • Mss.library.nottingham.ac.uk/dhl_home. html
  • www.mirror.org/books/gb.lawrence-dh.html
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