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From: The Nation
Date: 19850209
Author:Heilbut, Anthony

Nowadays admires of D.H. Lawrence have it hard. If they take him seriously, they must countenance a lifelong series of repellent statements about women, blacks, Jews and gays. But to be fair to Lawrence is to recognize that his oscillations and ambivalence on a number of matters reflect the edgiest sensibility of his time. To be fair to him also means acknowledging that the dreadful Lawrence can, in the space of a narrative clause, transform himself into someone quite different; as a literary quick-change artist, he can make grammar seem downright therapeutic. One would have ...

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