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Is D.H. Lawrence still sexy? The novelist was a figure of real importance last century - Jonathan Bate wonders whether he matters now

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050220
Author:Jonathan Bate

MORE THAN any other 20th-century English author, D. H. Lawrence has inspired devotion and loathing in equal measure. For some, he is the greatest working-class novelist in the language and the man who finally buried Victorian prudery and ushered in the modern age in which we are unashamed of bodily desire. For others, his prose is overblown, his worship of the phallus risible, and his attitudes misogynous, racist, even fascist.

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