Harry T. Moore, major biographer and pi­oneer in Lawrence scholarship, character­izes this book as “altogether one of the truly fine critical and expository volumes on the man whom so many major critics now re­gard as the outstanding English writer of this century.”

 

The 27 essays in this book are divided into 8 parts: An introductory section; Lawrence’s Short Stories; The Textual Edition of Law­rence’s Works; Ideas and Techniques; Law­rence’s Major Works; Lawrence and Women; The Textual Edition of Lawrence’s Letters; and Some Conclusions.

 

Contributors include Ernest Tedlock, “Lawrence’s Voice: A Keynote Address”; Gerald Pollinger, “The Lawrence Estate”; Michael Black, “The Works of D. H. Law­rence: The Cambridge Edition”; and Warren Roberts, “Problems in Editing D. H. Law­rence.” Other established scholars include George J. Zytaruk, “Editing Lawrence’s Let­ters: The Strategy of Volume Division”; Mark Spilka, “Lawrence versus Peeperkorn on Ab­dication; or, What Happens to a Pagan When the Juice Runs Out?”; L. D. Clark, “Immediacy and Recollection: The Rhythm of the Visual in D. H. Lawrence (with photographs by LaVerne Harrell Clark)”; James C. Cowan, “D. H. Lawrence and the Resurrection of the Body”; and Harry T. Moore, “The Prose of D. H. Lawrence.”

 

Other scholars contributing to this book are Keith Cushman, John S. Poynter, Ian MacNiven, Peter H. Balbert, Michael Squires, Sandra M. Gilbert, Emile Delavanay, Scott Sanders, Charles L. Ross, and Charles Rossman. There are also essays by Armin Arnold, Lydia Blanchard, Evelyn J. Hinz and John J. Teunissen, James T. Boulton, Gerald M. Lacy, David Farmer, and Keith Sagar.