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THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME

Richly imagined by the blind bard around 900 B.C.E., Homer's story follows Odysseus on a decade-long journey as he flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the Sirens, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in exotic cities-ever longing to return to his wife and son. ... Read more

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Not even close
This translation of The Odyssey changes and in sometimes excludes parts of the original work. I don't recommended to anyone especially if you need it for school.

Worst Translation Ever
If you are looking for the poetic translation of the Odyssey, I wouldn't reccomend this one. In fact, I wouldn't reccomend it to people who don't want that translation. WHD Rouse probably didn't use the original words of Homer. He criticized Homer in his note, saying that the poem version isn't good and that it should be put into simple words. If you want a good version of this classic, I would reccomend the Fagles version. It is poetic, yet not too hard. It's a good book. ... Read more

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These two brilliant novels are deservedly among Lawrence's most popular works. Both are at the same time exciting narratives and striking expressions of Lawrence's philosophy. St. Mawr is the story of a splendid stallion in whose vitality the heroine finds the quality that is lacking in the men she knows. It is also the first of Lawrence's writing to be partially set in America, on a ranch in Arizona. The Man Who Died, originally published in Paris as "The Escaped Cock" and later retitled and revised, has as its main character Christ, who does not die on the cross but escapes to wander through the country seeking the meaning of human existence, which he finally discovers in a temple of Isis by the waters of Lebanon. ... Read more

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An Exemplar Of Literary Urges
There's a need for writers to gain a measure of life's seasoning in order to have something relevant to say. This is not to claim that younger writers don't have a perspective on life worth sharing - but it does imply that life experiences of the young tend to pander to the superficial level of understanding, rarely allowing readers to experience anything of life beyond said young writer's ego.

Literature is at its basis an educational device - one in which a story is told in a way allowing readers to identify with life at multiple levels. Such experience in literature is almost always an isolated, discrete one - a specific person or incident. This is for good reason: limiting literary experience keeps the reader from being overwhelmed by life's panorama.

But...and here my point leaves most younger writers in the dust...a story told skillfully enough to be considered literature will lead the reader to experience the deeper significance of the story, and this almost always leads to something we might call a word-driven mystical experience.

I don't think I'm being too high-flown here - literature at its best should be a meme for something religious folks call spiritual experience. And this experience is essentially a unifying one - an experience that makes all discrete experiences seem part of some (tangible or intangible) whole.

D.H. Lawrence wrote The Man Who Died late in his altogether-too-short life. Writers, particularly those with the poetic bent Lawrence displays in his work, seem to be able somehow to divine the future, and perhaps this book was his way of peering into his own after-life.

His story is one of Jesus of Nazareth, the central icon of Christianity, and I should digress for a moment: Lawrence seems to have two writerly urges here.

First, he takes a rather incomplete story - Biblical depictions are vague on details regarding Jesus' death, his burial and his rising after three days (How, exactly, was he buried? Where was the cave? How was the large stone rolled into the cave's entrance? What transpired, other than what Biblical scripture depicts, inside and outside the cave, during the three days? How did Jesus feel upon rising: was he physically tired, psychologically wan?). Such gaps, whether you consider them of history or myth, are irresistible to writers, and Lawrence surely felt drawn to fill these gaps in his own way. His strategy was to treat Jesus as more of a human than a sainted personality. He depicts Jesus in this story as a man living within a plausibly human context - something that clearly went (and goes) against the grain of the prevailing Christian mythos.

And second, he surely wondered: if I'm to portray Jesus as a human here, how must I treat his divine side? Lawrence's plan was to have Jesus travel to Egypt and to meet a priestess of Isis - the goddess of Egypt's Old Kingdom.

Why Isis? There are parallels with the treatment of Jesus at the end of his life with the story of Osiris:

This Egyptian god was, according to prevailing myth, stuffed into a box by his brother Set, the box thrown into the Nile. Osiris' wife, Isis, recovered the box and brought Osiris back to life via a certain spell. Thus, Osiris became the Egyptian god of the afterlife, or of resurrection (coincidentally, the Egyptian religious cults were resurrectionist, not reincarnationist, as is Christianity).

Lawrence's writing, beyond the scandalous histrionics gathered about his stories, was essentially about resolving sexual polarities in human culture, i.e., how do - or can - we humans resolve our need for and emotional attachments to those of the opposite sex? In keeping with this bent, Lawrence brings Jesus - who remains in something of an emotional funk following his crucifixion and is still physically ailing - into a liaison with this priestess of Isis.

Something about the priestess' physicality seems to salve Jesus' wounds, and he goes on as a man - a wanderer - ever in search of peace as a human.

This story, then, has to do with treating Jesus as a single, human entity, then implying mythic connections with an Egyptian god of similar traits, and leading the reader to some deeper sense of meaning regarding this fictionalized portrayal. In so doing, Lawrence hoped, I think, to have the reader understand something of the divine in human experience, no matter how tragic.

Commentaries on this story depict Jesus' human afterlife as viewing humanity's collective state of mind as one in deep need of psychological and emotional healing, as ego-driven, as desperate to reconcile individual needs with collective needs.

Part of the genius Lawrence displays here is in treating these dichotomy-driven emotional states, not through didactics, but purely through a sweetly told story.

Visions ofa blighted humanity.
This was my first experience of reading D.H. Lawrence, and I was surprised how clearly and understandably these two short works of around eighty years ago spoke to me. Unfortunately, he seems to be another of those great writers of the past who are neglected today because of their very familiarity. And, it seems likely that some of his ideas may not fit current prescriptions for political correctness. Though I recognized elements in these stories, particularly "St. Mawr", which I regarded as imperfections, they earn the highest rating from me by virtue of the powerful impact of their symbology and supporting imagery.

These separate stories, I believe, illuminate different aspects of the same problem of human existence, as Lawrence saw it. That problem is the defilement or stunting of the pure natural life force in man by an opposing and blighting force. This life force, manifested uniquely in each individual, must be allowed to fulfill itself in each person for that life to have any joy or real meaning to that person. In that way, the individual, though separate unto himself, participates in and has the proper relationship to the life force of the world as a whole.

In Lawrence's very Gnostic vision, there has been intervention or interference by an evil force, sort of an implied Demiurge, that manifests itself, in "St. Mawr" as sentimentality. This sentimentality, posing as genuine feeling, has led to an empty politeness which has weakened and degraded the character of mankind, but from which over-civilized modern man does not know how to escape.

There is an astonishingly vivid portrayal of the primal life-force as portrayed by a remarkable stallion who is the namesake of the story. The image of the conflicted spirit of this captive stallion foreshadows the drama about to unfold for its human characters. Two very liberated women, mother and daughter, give expression, through their personal quests for fulfillment, to the opposition of the cosmic forces, although the drama takes place on a naturalistic plane.

In "The Man Who Died", the degrading force manifests itself as pettiness - overmuch attention to words, regulations, status, money - and the resultant evils of malicious jealousy and harmful intent. It is the blocking of the vision of the greater world of the life force by the smaller world which most of humanity lives in.

In an extremely bold exploration of this theme, which has no doubt been unsettling to many, Lawrence places the resurrected Christ as a protagonist who, upon awakening from the dead, realizes his former mission had been mistaken. He sees that his efforts to make people obey a compulsion to love one another was, after all, a manifestation of the smaller world and a hindering of the purity and self-truth of the life-force.

Again, the human drama is foreshadowed by an animal whose life-force is thwarted by an exterior restraining influence - in this case, a freedom-loving gamecock, or rooster, whose hobbled leg keeps him captive. After freeing the cock, the arisen Christ embarks on his own experience of the life-force through his relationship with a priestess of Isis. Though this might sound seamy, there is nothing at all sordid in the way this story is presented, although many would consider it blasphemous.

To my mind, there are passages of strange beauty as well as potent impact in these stories. Do you or I have to agree with Lawrence's vision? Of course not. But if you are able to abide what might be disturbing elements in these works, you might feel your imagination kindled, as I did mine.

Quirky stories, quintessential Lawrence themes
Not truly novels, St. Mawr and The Man Who Died seem to be experimental works in which D. H. Lawrence continues to explore the themes found throughout his longer fiction--the emasculation and dehumanization of men, the power and inscrutability of nature, the cynicism of post-war England, the difficulties in relationships and sex, and the potential of reinvention and resurrection.

Young Lou Witt, married, dispirited, weary, and bored, finds in the stallion St. Mawr the vitality the men around her lack. Although "some inscrutable bond held them together . . . a strange vibration of the nerves rather than of the blood," Lou's marriage to Rico enervates her. The relationship soon becomes Platonic, "a marriage, but without sex." The vital animal element of marriage "was shattering and exhausting, they shrank from it."

When Lou touches St. Mawr, she finds him "[s]o slippery with vivid, hot life!" His "alive, alert intensity" fires her emotions, which she realizes had died in the post-war era of facile friendships and fun. St. Mawr "seemed to look at her out of another world."

With her purchase of the stallion, Lou's perspective alters; "she could not believe the world she lived in." Although unreachable and unknowable, St. Mawr is more real to her than her husband, his friends, and even his apparent new love interest. For Lou, "all the people she knew, seemed so entirely contained within their cardboard, let's-be-happy world." Rico becomes almost a caricature of a man, imitating his father's officiousness and righteous indignation without feeling them. Lawrence describes Rico's meticulous attention to his appearance in detail: ". . . he dressed himself most carefully in white riding-breeches and a shirt of purple silk crepe, with a flowing black tie spotted red like a ladybird, and black riding-boots." While Rico is decorative and transparent, St. Mawr is vital and mysterious.

Lawrence uses long swathes of St. Mawr to philosophize, often directly or through the Welsh groom, Lewis, who says, "But a man's mind is always full of things." St. Mawr has no plot, and the stallion himself disappears from the narrative before Lou decides to "escape achievement" in the desert of New Mexico.

In New Mexico, Lawrence finds the "wild tussle" of life, which is missing from the long-civilized England, where everything is fenced in and where "the labourers could no longer afford even a glass of beer in the evenings, since the Glorious War." The displaced New England housewife who precedes Lou, seeing beauty in the desert first, then struggle, may represent Lawrence's own perspective and evolution during his stay there.

The Man Who Died begins with a peasant's acquisition of a cock--perhaps the one that crows three times before Peter realizes his three denials of Christ. Like the cock, the man who died (or, more accurately, didn't die and therefore didn't rise again) is tied "body, soul, and spirit" by "that string," his commitment to mankind to die and to be resurrected. "The doom of death was a shadow compared to the raging destiny of life, the determined surge of life."

Having survived his promised destiny, the man who died again renounces his godhood to become a man, this time permanently and with no agenda. His near death drives him to seek life, but not the "greed of giving" or the "little, greedy life of the body . . . he knew that virginity is a form of greed . . . he had risen for the woman, or women, who knew the greater life of the body, not greedy to give, not greedy to take . . ."

In his new situation, "the presence of people made him lonely." He believes he has fulfilled his mission and is beyond it: "My way is my own alone . . . I am alone within my own skin, which is the walls of all my domain."

Also alone is the virgin priestess of the temple of Isis, patiently awaiting the return of Osiris. Like Lou and many other female characters in Lawrence, she senses the superficial sexual appeal of men, but even to the great Anthony, "the very flower of her womb was cool, was almost cold, like a bud in the shadow of frost, for all the flooding of his sunshine." An old philosopher tells her, "Rare women wait for the re-born man" and that the lotus responds to "one of these rare, invisible suns that have been killed and shine no more," dismissing Anthony as one of the "golden brief day-suns of show."

The consummation of the relationship between the virgin god and the virgin priestess, in a temple surrounded outside by suspicious, vindictive slaves, is beautiful and moving. "It was the deep, interfolded warmth, warmth living and penetrable, the woman, the heart of the rose!" Instead of being a mere part of the "little life of the body," sex (and procreation) becomes a deeply spiritual experience, "the marvellous piercing transcendence of desire."

In both St. Mawr and The Man Who Died, Lawrence is rarely subtle or restrained, covering pages with repetitious expositions of his favorite themes, sometimes reveling too much in the variety of expression. In spite of their flaws, both works are inventive, imaginative, and stirring. For anyone who is familiar with Lawrence primarily though his more well-known novels and stories, these two works are worth a read.

The Man Who Died
St. Mawr & The Man Who DiedI bought this book in order to share Lawrence's vision of the Christian tale with a friend. It brings together universal resurrection imagery from diverse traditions in the moving, incendiary provocative intensity Lawrence is noted for.

The Horse
St. Mawr is one of the wisest books I've ever read.In it you can find insight and answers to some of the toughest questions you may ever encounter.What is it that brings men and women together?What is it that drives them apart?What exactly is it that we are doing to each other?What does it mean to be civilized?To be savage?What does it actually mean to be human?

D.H. Lawrence creates a world with very few words.These characters, though at times stereotypes or archetypes, are extremely real.

This book changed the way I look at the world, deepened my understanding of myself and of those around me. ... Read more

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Lawrence wrote nearly 1,000 poems during a short lifetime in which he was also astonishingly prolific in other spheres - fiction, travel writing, essays, criticism, letters and plays. Lawrence was not simply a novelist who dabbled in other forms. His characteristic vision informed everything he wrote, especially his poetry. At three important phases of his life, it became the primary channel of his experience and creative energy - the first year of his relationship with Frieda, the two years in Sicily, and the last year of his life. Bringing together the best of his poetry, this volume demonstrates that 'Lawrence is a great poet in every sense including the technical - the form is the perfect incarnation of the content, the perfect vehicle for the liveliness of thought and feeling, the freshness, and depth of perception, the wit and wisdom he has to offer.' ... Read more

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"...too prosaic to be the greatest poetry ?"
That's the question asked by a previous reviewer, one of only three.
Suppose I offer you a poem and let you decide for yourslves:

HUMMING-BIRD
I can imagine, in some otherworld
Primeval-dumb, far back
In that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed,
Humming-birds raced down the avenues.

Before anything had a soul.
While life was a heave of Matter, half inanimate,
This little bit chipped off in brilliance
And went whizzing through the slow vast succulent stems.

I believe there were no flowers then,
In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of creation.
I believe he pierced the slow vegetable veins with his long beak.

Probably he was big
As mosses and little lizards, they say, were once big.
Probably he was a jabbing, terrifying monster.
We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of Time,
Luckily for us.

[I've chosen that poem because it's short enough to type in an ammy review. Lawrence's best poems, IMHO, are in his collection called Birds, Beast, and Flowers.]

Liveliness of Thought and Feeling.
Lawrence wrote nearly 1,000 poems during a short lifetime in which he was also astonishingly prolific in other spheres--fiction, travel writing, essays, criticism, letters and plays.Lawrence was not simply a novelist who dabbled in other forms.His characteristic vision informed everything he wrote, especially his poetry.At three important phases of his life it became the primary channel of his experience and creative energy--the first year of his relationship with Frieda, the two years in Sicily, and the last year of his life.Bringing together the best of his poetry, this volume demonstrates that 'Lawrence is a great poet in every sense including the technical ... The form is the perfect incarnation of the content, the perfect vehicle for the liveliness of thought and feeling, the freshness, and depth of perception, the wit and wisdom he has to offer.'Superb.Without hesitation or reservation, five stars.

Not the highest poetry
The editor of this edition Keith Sagar has selected for it what he says are Lawrence's truly good poems which he reckons asone- hundred fifty of the roughly one- thousand Lawrence wrote. Sagar maintains that Lawrence's special quality as a poet is his emotional realism. And it seems to me undoubtedly true that Lawrence is powerful in his expression of his feeling. But then the question which might be asked is why the lines of Lawrence do not somehow sing in our memory , remain with us as for instance the lines of Keats, Hopkins, Yeats, Wallace Stevens do?
Why is it despite Sagar's objection that the consensus is probably right in seeing Lawrence as primarily a novelist, and only secondarily as a poet?

Here is a fine small poem of Lawrence from this book.

DESIRE IS DEAD
Desire may be dead
and still a man can be
a meeting place for sun and rain
wonder outwaiting pain
as in a wintry tree.

And one more small example.
WHATEVER MAN MAKES
Whatever man makes and makes it live
lives because of the life put into it
A yard of India muslim is alive with Hindu life
Anda Navajo woman, weaving her rug in the pattern of her dream
must run the pattern out in a little break at the end
so that her soul can come out, back to her.

But in the odd pattern, like snake- marks ont he sand it leaves its trail.

Am I wrong to think to think these poems are too prosaic to be the greatest poetry ?

A wonderful collection
Sagar states in the introduction of this selection of D.H. Lawrence's poetry, "We have come to think of his poetry as something of a by-product of, or relaxation from, other more strenuous and important work".There is no doubt it was to an extent, however, what is clear is that he took it just as seriously as his other artistic pursuits.Casual readers of Lawrence may be surprised to learn that he wrote around 1000 poems in his 45-years.His poetry runs in near-parallel themes to his novels - for example, "Sons and Lovers" character Miriam was inspired by the muse of "Love Poems", Lawrence's' then sweetheart Jessie Chambers."Sons and Lovers" focused upon the cruelty of love - platonic, romantic, and parental.Lawrence's poems from his "Love Poems" collection, "Cruelty and Love" and "Snap-Dragon" capture the same theme, albeit far more personally.

In this collection we see Lawrence's poetic skills evolve - from young rebel to world-weary mystic.It's his ability to capture emotion so clearly and concisely which is Lawrence's greatest skill.What also shines through in his poetry is a sense of playfulness - take "The Mosquito" as a case example:

"It is your trump,
It is your hateful little trump,
You pointed fiend,
Which shakes my sudden blood to hatred of you:
It is your small, high, hateful bugle in my ear."

The poem is altogether hilarious, depicting Lawrence as a hunter of the tiny yet vicious bug, who evades his every attempt to squash it until he finally, after much effort, succeeds.Much more than this, however, it demonstrates Lawrence's uncanny ability to capture the essence of nature and its creatures, best evidenced in "Snake".

Lawrence's poems are all full of energy and spirit, technically adept, and yet not limited by form. Admittedly some of his work is too personal, leaving the reader alienated, but his successful poetry (mostly presented in this collection) transcends time and culture. ... Read more

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Most ancient cultures disappeared with scarcely a trace, their effect uponour modern way of life of little consequence. The Greeks, however, continueto infl uence contemporary man through their drama, philosophy and art,their political cognizance and knowledge of science. There are many booksintroducing the Greek world to the modern reader, but this volume wasrecognized as a classic in the fi eld upon its publication in1951. This paperback edition includes a later preface by the author and 32 pages of photographs selected especially for the American reader. ... Read more

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Most eloquent and learned introduction to the subject ever!
Kitto is one of those rare birds: a great scholar with a real gift for writing.He is able to do what so few academics are able to do today: communicate with a general readership.His only peer in this area is Edith Hamilton.For those who desire to gain a poignant and dimensional insight into Ancient Greece THE GREEKS by H.D.F. Kitto is a first stop.

The Greeks: Fathers of Western Civilization.
I got in touch with this book as a mandatory reading when I was applying to study at Buenos Aires University. As usually happens with prescribed readings, I eyed "The Greeks" with little enthusiasm.
But to my big surprise it was a great read! Professor Kitto has done an outstanding work here. Now, after all this years, I treasure this volume in my library and read it again and again.

In very few pages he gives the reader a complete picture of Ancient Greece, from its origins till the advent of Alexander the Great.
Every main issue is described here: the Polis, their religion, the construction step by step of a unique civilization; art and war; literature and theater; philosophy and history; not a significant issue is left over. At the same time Professor Kitto succeed in writing a very straightforward account and an easy reading.
We may understand thru this book our eternal debt to that Mediterranean people. Nothing will be as it is without the Greek heritage.

A recommended read for students and any person interested in Western Culture.
Enjoy this trip!

Reviewed by Max Yofre.

Still a classic ...
Kitto's book is still a classic after all these years. Clear, concise, and glowing with his passion for the Athenians, it remains my favorite introduction to what may still be the greatest civilization ever.

A must to understand early Greek culture.
I have always wanted to know what type of social organization produced the great early Greek thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, etc. This book answers that question. It describes the Greek polis, key to early Greek civilization, and also the role that the environment played among other factors.

Good Intro to the Greek Life
A good intro to the world of the greeks. It's a little bit hard to understand but it does give helpful comments about The Histories of Herodotus and Homer's Illiad. ... Read more

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unique travel piece
D.H. Lawrence writes like a painter would write were he to. What is most real in the writings of Lawrence is the physical world, and of course the body. Mornings in Mexico is really a slight work but with a charm to it. There is a relating of facts (especially about Indian life and thought) that you would expect from a travel piece but the charm is in the kind of easy sauntering pace that the narrative keeps. That feeling that it is vacation time and there really is no hurry. The house he lives in for his stay in Mexico and the surrounding markets and open fields in which he walks and the balcony he stands on in the morning with parrot are all pleasantly described. It feels like a place you want to be. The way time away should feel. There is a slight mournful air to the fact that the Americans are beginning to spoil the place, it is as if the Americans have brought that intruder time itself into this timeless land. It's not so much the details you will remember as the overall feel of the work. And Lawrence himself. And here he seems at ease, searching as always but not desperately so, which is a nice Lawrence to spend time with.

Mexico - by a first rate traveller
Lawrence was a good traveller in these parts and he spent a lot of time carefully observing the Indians he met along the way.He was particularly interested in the ways of thought of the Indians and their religious beliefs and the ways their ideas differed from yours and mine. On simple concepts like time and distance, for example: "To an Indian, time is a vague, foggy reality.There are only three times: en la manana (morning); en la tarde (afternoon); en la noche (night).But to the white monkey (you and me) there are exact spots of time, such as five o'clock and half past three." The Indian's concept of God was different from ours."With the Indians...there is strictly no god.The Indian does not consider himself as created and therefore external to God, or the creature of God. There is, in our sense of the word, no God. But all is godly. There is no great mind directing the universe. Yet the mystery of creation, the wonder and fascination of creation shimmers in every leaf and stone... There is no God looking on. The only God there is is involved all the time in the dramatic wonder and inconsistency of creation. God is immersed, as it were, in creation, not to be separated or distinguished.There can be no ideal God." Lawrence does a wonderful job of digging into this exotic culture and explaining to us the significance of Indian rituals and dances. I particularly liked one of his statements: "The Indian is completely immersed in the wonder of his own drama." There is also a lovely example of descriptive travel writing in "Market Day", a chapter that makes you slow down your reading pace to savor the beautiful descriptions of small things like a bird's flight or flowers in a doorway. I guess this is the difference between reading and information-processing, which we do so much of today. ... Read more

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A poetic record of experiences in Paris, Amsterdam, and Bangkok, culminating in an odyssey of terror and deprivation through the netherworld of the American Embassy in Thailand, together with political prose arguing for a more humane United States ... Read more

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DH Lawrence's work as an artist has long been eclipsed by his fame as a writer but he was a keen painter all his life. In 1929 his work was exhibited at the Warren Gallery in London and attracted much attention before the gallery was raided by police and thirteen of Lawrence's paintings seized. He was finally allowed to reclaim them but only on the undertaking that they would never be exhibited again. For years, Lawrence's work has been all but lost. A fine limited edition of reproductions was published by the Mandrake Press to coincide with the exhibition but immediately became a rare collectors' item. Few people have seen the originals as many are now lost and the only collections are in New Mexico and Texas."DH Lawrence's Paintings" contains high-quality color reproductions of more of his paintings than any previous publication, including some that have never been published before. It also brings together, for the first time, everything Lawrence wrote about art, including three essays and extracts from many letters and poems. Keith Sagar's comprehensive commentary places the paintings in the context of Lawrence's extraordinary life and work. ... Read more

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D.H.L.'s essays and poetry are very stimulating!
Although out of print this volume and its companion volune PHOENIX are among my favorite collections.They are very insightful in areas D.H.L. is not usually recognized for.

In this volume one of my favorites is HYMNSIN A MAN'S LIFE.It starts "Nothing is more difficult than todetermine what a child takes in, and does not take in, of its environmentand its teaching..."Later, "...Love is a great emotion, andpower is power.But both love and power are based on wonder.Love withoutwonder is a sensational affair, and power without wonder is mere force andcompulsion.The one uiniversal element in consciousness which isfundamental to life is the element of wonder."

And consider D.H.L.'sinsight into scientific research when he says: "Even the realscientist works in the sense of wonder.The pity is, when he comes out ofhis laboratory he puts aside his wonder along with his apparatus, and triesto make it all perfactly didactic.Science in its true condition of wonderis as religious as any religion..."In my work as a scientist I findthis to be very true.The little hints, the inspiration, the hunches, thedead ends...none of these is acknowledged as one tries to make theresultof the investigation perfectly logical.

He goes on to talk about hisreligious childhood and how it carried over into his adult life.Hear hisrecollections: "...I liked our chapel, which was tall and full oflight, and yet still; and colour-washed pale green and blue, with a bit oflotus pattern.And over the organ-loft, 'O worship the Lord in the beautyof holiness,' in big letters."

D,H.L. had a rich background in theBible, and it entered many of his works.The book APOCALYPSE is devoted inits entirely to the analysis of the Book of Revelation.An essay in theinitial PHOENIX is titled "On Being Religious".His religiondeveloped beyond the usual Christian dogma, and he gives top billing to TheHoly Spirit.

The last two essays in PHOENIX II are titled: "OnBeing a Man", and "On Human Destiny." very provocativetitles.

I have touched on the element of religion because D.H.L. usuallyis not associated with "religious" thoughts. A vast variety ofother subjects are treated in other essays, as well as the full text of hisnovel MR NOON.

This book is one of my treasures! ... Read more

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Great Novels of D.H. Lawrence
Two masterpieces from the great writer who shocked the world

The Rainbow
Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence shocked his age with the sensuality of his subject matter and the sheer power and energy of his prose. Lady Chatterley's Lover was branded obscene only 40 years ago, and yet now is heralded as a masterpiece of modern fiction.

The Rainbow is thought by many to be his finest novel. ... Read more

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This is a collection of short stories by D.H. Lawrence. They include "England my England", "Tickets Please", "The Blind Man", "Monkey Nuts", "Wintry Peacock", "You Touched Me", "Samson and Delilah", "The Primrose Path", "The Horse Dealer's Daughter", "The Last Straw" and "The Thimble". ... Read more

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Introduction by Richard Aldington. The Phoenix edition. 1970 reprint. Bears library stamps and stickers.A slight slant on the spine. Dust jacket encased in mylar. Published by William Heinemann ... Read more

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A TEDIOUS SIMPLE TALE
THIS SHORT, SIMPLE TALE IS TYPICAL OF LAWRENCE. A MARRIED MAN--A MUSICIAN-- UNHAPPY IN HIS MARRIAGE, HAS AN AFFAIR WITH HIS STUDENT. THEN HE CANNOT FACE HIS FAMILY AND COMMITS SUICIDE. AFTER HIS SUICIDE, LIFE GOES ON. HIS FAMILY SUCCEED WITHOUT HIM, AND HIS YOUNG MISTRESS FINDS ANOTHER MAN TO LOVE HER.
ITS IS SIMPLE AND PREDICTABLE. THE BULK OF THE PIECE DESCRIBES THE DAYS IN WHICH THE LOVERS SPEND SOME DAYS TOGETHER, ALONE,AT THE SEASHORE, ENJOYING LOVE AND NATURE.IT IS BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, BUT I FOUND IT TIRESOME AFTER A WHILE. LAWRENCE WRITES NOVELS OF PURE POETRY, BUT THE TALE DID NOT KEEP ME INTERESTED. IF I WANT POETRY, I'LL READ IT!

Lawrence feels too Impressionable
The Trespasser is the tragic tale of Siemund, a music teacher with an unhappy family life, and his student, who becomes his lover.It isn't a worthless book, but your time would definately be better spent reading oneof the famous Lawrence books - this is clearly the creation of a young,impressionable mind.For instance, Lawrence makes constant reference toWagner's 'Ring' in the book, rubbing the reader's nose profusely inheavyhanded hints that Siemund is borrowed from the German composer's work. ... Read more