The Letters of D. H. Lawrence / Edition 1

by D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton

Overview

Volume V covers the three years from March 1924 to March 1927. It comprises over 890 letters, of which about 350 are previously unpublished, and the others are printed in full for the first time. As in earlier volumes of this model edition of Lawrence's correspondence, texts have been established from the originals and are fully annotated to identify persons and illuminate allusions. Also included are a biographical introduction, two maps of Oaxaca (Mexico), illustrations, chronology and an index. In 1924 Lawrence is in the United States to check on the failing business of his American publisher and to rewrite his Mexican novel The Plumed Serpent. While in Mexico, the author falls dangerously ill and recovers at Kiowa. In the Autumn of 1925, he and Frieda visit family in England and Germany. They finally settle in Italy where, except for his final visit to the Midlands, they will remain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521006910
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/05/2002
Series:	The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D. H. Lawrence , #1
Edition description:	FIRST/REPRINT
Pages:	636
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.54(h) x 1.54(d)

About the Author

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Among his works, Sons and Lovers appeared in 1913, The Rainbow in 1915, Women In Love in 1920, and many others.

Date of Birth:

September 11, 1885

Date of Death:

March 2, 1930

Place of Birth:

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England

Place of Death:

Vence, France

Education:

Nottingham University College, teacher training certificate, 1908

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Rules of transcription; Lawrence: a genealogy; Lawrence: a chronology, 1885–1913; Maps showing places visited by Lawrence, 1885–1913; Introduction; Letters 1-579; Index.

Editorial Reviews

Lawrence wrote the 763 letters in this volume in the last 15 months of his life. Most of the letters are previously unpublished; many more are available only in incomplete texts. A large number concern ``business,'' and Lawrence's poor health noticeably saps his energy. The letters are also shadowed by Lawrence's growing awareness that he would die before reaching his 45th birthday. Still, the characteristic Lawrentian spirit is here in abundance. The letters are masterfully but unobtrusively edited by Sagar and Boulton, two English academics. It's fair to say that they know more about Lawrence's life than he knew himself. Volume 8 will mainly provide a comprehensive index to the over 5500 letters of the first seven volumes. This edition of Lawrence's letters will stand as a monument of modern literary scholarship; all research collections should own it.-- Keith Cushman, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro

Library Journal

"...what a continuously useful, revealing, clarifying set of facts, insights and sidelights—literary, critical, biographical—is provided by this magnificent haul of 5,534 letters in these stupendously well edited volumes. This collection, surely, ranks among the very best gatherings of modern literary letters. All praise to the Cambridge University Press and to James T. Boulton—who has had a hand in each volume—and to Keith Sagar, who has joined Boulton in steering Volume Seven, 1928-30 along." Valentine Cunningham, Times Literary Supplement

"This edition of Lawrence's letters will stand as a monument of modern literary scholarship; all research collections should own it." Library Journal

"Essential to the literary scholar, the Cambridge edition will also serve the general reader by assembling in an attractive, reliable, and complete format the correspondence of one of the century's most passionate and enduring voices." Magill's Literary Annual

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