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From: The Spectator
Date: 20050305
Author:Carr, Raymond

New Age traveller D. H. LAWRENCE: THE LIFE OF AN OUTSIDER by John Worthen Penguin, £30, pp. 517, ISBN 0713996137 £26 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848

Literary biography has been seen as an ambiguous enterprise justified only if it enriches our understanding of the creative genius of poets and novelists. John Worthen has triumphantly succeeded in relating D. H. Lawrence's life to his works. It is the achievement of a gifted scholar who has devoted his life to his subject.

Matthew Arnold wrote of the German poet Heine that he was an egoist, but a great liberator of mankind; his radical ...

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