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The very long Journey towards oblivion

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From: The Spectator
Date: 19980124
Author:Scammell, William

D. H. LAWRENCE:

DYING GAME, 1922-30

by David Ellis

CUP, L35, pp. 780

Lawrence is a Titan, a wizard, one of those human marvels like Shakespeare or Goethe.' `This man whom a generation is thinking intellectual is as set about with superstitions as a parlour of palmistry.' The strong and conflicting impressions of his friends run throughout his life: Lorenzo the Magnificent - poet, cook, traveller, mime, botanist, painter, psychologist-in-chief to the sex war and the ills of all the ages versus `creeping Jesus', the bad-tempered and bullying consumptive who could `easily . . . spare a ...

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