Notes on “Life” in Language: D.H. Lawrence’s Erlebte Rede

This article is a possibly Quixotic attempt to engage what seems to me at once the most elusive, and yet the most fundamental, aspect of Lawrence’s relation to language. Much of his early reception during, and shortly after, his lifetime was as an artless writer and simplistic thinker whose naivety was evidenced in his repetitious and insistent didacticism. His heavy-handed style, only too fatally, revealed the man. Of course, since those early days serious readers have come to recognise his...

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