“A Biographical Sketch of One of the Great English Novelists, D.H. Lawrence,” by Andrew J. Schatkin
“A Biographical Sketch of One of the Great English Novelists, D.H. Lawrence,” by Andrew J. Schatkin
Dear friends, thinkers, and persons of all thoughts streams of thinking and opinions and all lovers of literature and my fellow literari, I bid you and ask you to join with me in another voyage of intellectual discovery where those who may wish to engage in critical thinking and not engage in and accept media lies falsehoods and political code words and hype can join in the effort to gain truth and facts amid the barrage of corruption and virtual darkness we are confronted with and befuddled and made effective fools of. I welcome you in this quest and task of attaining and coming to know intellectual honesty and honesty discernment Join with me in this voyage of discovery to get at and find what is valid and authentic in this world of confusion and do come with me in tearing apart the curtain of lies and darkness that hides from us what is truth and facts.
Today I will most happy speak of the life and work of one I regard as one of the all-time greats and one of my favorite English novelists, D.H. Lawrence, once censored and now beloved and admired by many. David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 and died in 1930 was a poet and a writer of short stories and novels. His work is a reflection on the effects of the industrial revolution and its dehumanizing effects.
His opinions earn him many enemies and his work was misrepresented and censored. Lawrence's early life was spent in a mining town. He attended local schools and later left and worked as a clerk in a local factory. From 1902 to 1906, he served as a teacher. In 1908, he left for London and began work as an author. In 1910, his first novel appeared, entitled The White Peacock. In 1911, he began to write Sons and Lovers and in 1912 he met and established a relationship with Frieda Lawrence and left England for Germany and then Italy. He returned to Britain in 1913 and then returned to Italy. He began writing what was to become the Rainbow and Women in Love. Lawrence became legally married to Frieda in 1914. He worked on Women in Love in 1916 and 1917. The Rainbow was suppressed in 1915 for its alleged obscenity in 1915. After the war, Lawrence spent the rest of his life traveling, a time of voluntary exile from his native country, and his wandering took him to many countries and many places including Australia, Ceylon; Italy; the United States; Mexico, France; Sicily and Sardinia; and Austria and Germany.
In 1922, the Lawrences left Europe for the United States. In 1925, while on a third visit to Mexico, he suffered health issues with an attack of malaria and tuberculosis. His poor health made travel difficult and the Lawrences made their home in a villa near Florence. During his final years, Lawrence renewed his interest in painting, and despite his failing health he continued to write. Lawrence is best known of his novels Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow; Women in Love; and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In these books, Lawrence explored the life possibilities in an industrialized setting and was concerned with the relationships that could be had within such a setting and these novels explored sexuality. He also wrote a large number of short stories and more than 800 poems.
Lawrence mostly is known for his highly original writings and in their time they were most disturbing to upper elements of the society.
I have derived great enjoyment from and have learned much and been enlightened in every way from his books. I recommend them all for stimulating with a great mind and spirit do not miss them, my dear friends, readers, and lovers of great literature and coming to know and understand a great thinkers and writers, a writer for all times and all ages and all generations. For each generation to read Lawrence is to be raised up and fulfilled by a highly original thinker and novelist.