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Books: The Professor Of Phallocentricity A doorstopping triple biography of D H Lawrence is finally complete, but who reads him now? William Scammell canvasses writers and critics on their views of 'Lorenzo'

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19980329
Author:William Scammell

THE MONUMENTAL Cambridge biography of Lawrence - three volumes by three different authors, weighing in at almost 2,500 pages with enough footnotes to support a new Canary Wharf - came to a close in January with David Ellis's coverage of the final years in D H Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930 (CUP pounds 35). The phoenix will have his work cut out to rise again from this weight of marble, a tombstone if ever there was one, scholarly, reverential, magnificently detailed, anatomising the multitudinous writings against the backdrop of his turbulent, loving, yet adversarial life. "The real tragedy ...

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