tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post5218449953873079832..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Recent Reading - Assorted Articles by DH Lawrencezmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-71879353115417195442019-10-23T14:47:09.367+02:002019-10-23T14:47:09.367+02:00Larkin wore a tee shirt! What?
Don't worry, so...Larkin wore a tee shirt! What?<br />Don't worry, so far in what I've read of the book, Auden is not immensely enamoured of Lawrence's poems. When I was at university, Lawrence and George Bernard Shaw were almost equally highly esteemed. I actually find Shaw's plays more boring now than I find Lawrence's fiction - and I've caught myself wondering whether Stoppard's work won't age into the same, (to me anyway), rather clunking, didactic tedium that Shaw's work has. Which I suppose has rather got off the pointzmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13257237006140490556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-62690242752988473312019-10-22T22:50:46.672+02:002019-10-22T22:50:46.672+02:00Oh dear, I didn't know Auden had written about...Oh dear, I didn't know Auden had written about him...<br />I think it's hard for us now to realise quite how high DHL's reputation was, not all that long ago, and how very seriously he was taken. This was still the case when I was at university, but Lawrence mania has certainly died down since then (tho whether he's been replaced in the pantheon by anyone better is an open question). Larkin, rather amazingly, was a huge fan in his early years, and even in later life he used to wear a D.H. Lawrence tee shirt while mowing that legendary lawn...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-49606127572921519742019-10-02T10:12:39.976+02:002019-10-02T10:12:39.976+02:00I'm reading The Dyer's Hand by WH Auden an...I'm reading The Dyer's Hand by WH Auden and to my surprise he has a whole chapter on Lawrence. In normal circumstances I would embrace the barking dingbat theory without hesitation, but now I will wait until I've seen what Auden has to say, (as he is one of my great heroes and I find it hard to disagree with him on anything). Who knows though, this may turn out to be the moment when the Auden scales fall from my eyes. On the whole, I hope not. It is so hard to find heroeszmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13257237006140490556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-63179712964776633552019-09-16T15:59:40.998+02:002019-09-16T15:59:40.998+02:00Gay's the word! Always good to be reminded of ...Gay's the word! Always good to be reminded of what a complete barking dingbat DHL was. Surely the world would have been a better place, all in all, if he'd pursued his true vocation...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.com