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Gowher Ahmad Naik, Lovely Professional University Unit 21: D.H. Lawrence — Sons and Lovers

Unit 21: D.H. Lawrence — Sons and Lovers Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
21.1 D.H. Lawrence—Sons and Lovers: Introduction to the author
21.1.1 Life and Career

21.1.2 Later Life and Career
21.2 D.H. Lawrence—Sons and Lovers: Introduction to the Text
21.2.1 Written Works
21.2.2 Introduction to Sons and Lovers
21.3 Summary
21.4 Keywords

21.5 Review Questions
21.6 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Know about the author of Sons and Lovers
• Know about the text of Sons and Lovers

• Know the introduction to the work Sons and Lovers.

Introduction

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist,
poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection
upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, Lawrence confronts
issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.

Lawrence’s opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship,
and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of
which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his “savage pilgrimage.” At the time of his death,
his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents.
E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, “The
greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.” Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R.
Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of
Lawrence’s fiction within the canonical “great tradition” of the English novel. Lawrence is
now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in
English literature.

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