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D. H. Lawrence in decline.

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20060501
Author:Allen, Brooke

In the introduction to her 1958 selection of D. H. Lawrence's letters, Diana Trilling complained that "so much a poet, he yet insists that we read him as a preacher." This undeniable fact made a full appreciation of Lawrence's imaginative writing rather problematic for many of his contemporaries, and even more so for posterity. The Lawrence scholar John Worthen begins his excellent new biography by informing us that the sage's once titanic reputation has now diminished and that many English departments both in Britain and the United States have stopped teaching him altogether. (1) ...

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