The Complete Poems of D.H. LawrenceWordsworth Editions, 1994 - 352 pages With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents of the two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he died in 1930. It therefore allows the reader to trace the development of Lawrence as a poet and appreciate the remarkable originality and distinctiveness of his achievement. Not all the poems reprinted here are masterpieces but there is more than enough quality to confirm Lawrence's status as one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century. |
Contents
RHYMING POEMS | 1 |
Michael Angelo | 35 |
Brooding Grief | 76 |
Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector | 130 |
Dreams Old and Nascent | 136 |
Song of a Man Who is Not Loved | 170 |
Both Sides of the Medal | 181 |
Song of a Man Who has Come Through | 195 |
GHOSTS | 335 |
PANSIES | 343 |
Climb Down O Lordly Mind | 388 |
Fear of Society is the Root of All Evil | 429 |
A Tale Told by an Idiot | 435 |
Know Thyself and That Thou Art Mortal | 456 |
NETTLES | 478 |
What Have They Done to You? | 523 |
FRUITS | 218 |
FLOWERS | 241 |
THE EVANGELISTIC BEASTS | 255 |
CREATURES | 266 |
REPTILES | 282 |
BIRDS | 300 |
The | 308 |
LAST POEMS | 574 |
Invocation to the Moon | 582 |
The Ship of Death | 603 |
APPENDIX | 615 |
NOTES | 629 |
643 | |