He had started to take breath in the form of a baby in 11 September 1885 at Eastwood, a mining village seven miles northwest of Nottingham, England. After a day, in 12 September, a very new, and now a very old Football Club formed in the name "Burry FC". The club brought very new tradition in football, and in 2005 became the first scorer of thousand goals. Similarly, one day older baby, later became very popular and top most writers in the world, was untrusted in very beginning of writing, and formed a new technique in literature. He changed the psychological rigidity of contemporary society by his writings. Now, we know him as D. H. Lawrence, and his parents used to know him David Herbert Lawrence.
Lawrence got good schooling in
family because his mother was trained as school-teacher. He had very close
intimacy with her. He has told it in his fictions. In Sons and Lovers, "Rocking Horse Winner" and other novel
as well as short stories are somehow about own relationship with his mother.
Primarily Lawrence educated in
local. Then he went to Nottingham High School on a scholarship. Later he worked
as clerk in in surgical company and entered in University College, Nottingham. He
struggled for the sake of life because he was abnormal guy. His writings were
experimental at the time. But he was portraying the reality of society. He
wrote sexual psychology and about transgender quality. But the society did not
accept him.
Love has no any color bar,
shape, age bar and such any kind of restrictions. It is philosophy of love. And
Lawrence's love really had no any bar. The love with his professor's wife,
Frieda Weekley, really grew up in 1912. She was German and six year older than
Lawrence. She also did not care about age, husband and three children; rather
she cared the love of Lawrence. So, she left her husband and embarrassed
Lawrence's love.
Within strong believe of
Weekley to Lawrence, most of the German were skeptical toward him. In fact,
German and British were not trusted each other. It was time of First World War.
So, he was accused by German soldiers thinking he was British spy, and arrested,
although he was released after a while. As written in different articles about
Lawrence, then they went to Italy and back to British. Again he was untrusted
by own country. British did not accept to Weekley being German woman.
Similarly, Rainbow's sales also
stopped. It was believed that novel was pornographic. The nation did not
believe him about representation of reality in his books. Then he could not
stay permanently in a place. He passed his life by visiting foreign and wrote
world famous fictions. But he never forgot his birthplace. He made setting of
his birthplace Estwood; countryside beautiful natural aspects calling it
"the country of my heart".
Lawrence was made controversial
till his last breath because publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover. He was fighting with society along with
tuberculosis. He could not win both in his life time. He surrendered with tuberculosis
in 2 March 1930. But his books and valuable books never stop fighting against
conservative society and finally got victory after World War Second. And he
became World Famous Literary figure.
Some of Lawrence's Works
Fiction
The White Peacock (Novel, 1911)
Sons and Lovers (Novel, 1913)
The Rainbow (Novel, 1915)
Women in Love (Novel, 1920)
Aaron’s Rod (Novel, 1922)
Kangaroo (Novel, 1923)
The Plumed Serpent1926
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Novel, 1928)
The Virgin and the Gipsy (Novel, 1930)
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (Short Stories, 1914)
England, my England and Other Stories (Short Stories, 1922)
The Fox, the Captain’s Doll, the Ladybird (Short Stories, 1923)
St Mawr and Other Stories (Short Stories, 1925)
The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (Short Stories, 1928)
The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories (Short Stories, 1930)
Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories (Short Stories, 1930)
Poetry
Love Poems and Others (1913)
Tortoises (1921)
Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923)
Last Poems (1932)
Travel books
Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (1916)
Sea and Sardinia (1921)
Mornings in Mexico (1927)
Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other: Italian Essays (1932)
Lawrence
did not work in only one genre. He caught pen in non fiction works as well. He
wrote Study of Thomas Hardy and Other
Essays in 1914 and Movements in
European History in 1921. Later one book shows he was also historian. He
was not limited in creative literature writing. He also developed the plot
story of more than four films. But he could not celebrate the festival of his
extreme success in his lifetime because he was untrusted. In fact, he could
achieve his real success after his death.
Reference
Editors
Boulton, James T. et. all. The works of
D. H. Lawrence. Cambridge University Press, 2004, web.
Goris,
José. "D.H. Lawrence: Relationships in his Early and Major Novels".
Radboud University Nijmegen, 14 May 2001, web.
Wikipidia— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence
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