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D. H. Lawrence: The Plumed Serpent: Brief Summary And Comment

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Plumed Serpent: Brief Summary And Comment

Though many critics - especially those of the Leavis school - have a very
low regard for this novel, (Leavis termed it "the least complex" and the most
"difficult to get through" of all Lawrence's novels) Lawrence himself called
the book, which was his last except for Lady Chatterley, "my most important
novel, so far." It has recently come in for a good deal more interest and
attention than it used to receive. W. Y. Tindall, for instance, who wrote an
excellent introduction to the Knopf (American) edition of ...

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