Birds, Beasts and Flowers: Selected Poems by D.H Lawrence - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876858663 ISBN 13: 9780876858660

Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, 1998

Synopsis

D.H. Lawrence wrote the poems that would be published as 'Birds, Beasts and Flowers' during a stay in New Mexico. These poems are considered to be the mature achievement of Lawrence's abilities as a poet.

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Review:

He believed in writing poetry that was stark, immediate and true to the mysterious inner force which motivated it. Many of his best-loved poems treat the physical and inner life of plants and animals; others are bitterly satiric and express his outrage at the puritanism and hypocrisy of conventional Anglo-Saxon society.

Birds, Beasts and Flowers is the peak of Lawrence's achievement as a poet.... Like the romantics [his] starting point in these poems is a personal encounter between himself and some animal or flower, but, unlike the romantics, he never confuses the feelings they arouse in him with what he sees and hears and knows about them. The lucidity of his language matches the intensity of his vision; he can make the reader see what he is saying as very few writers can.

"Birds, Beasts and Flowers is the peak of Lawrence's achievement as a poet...Like the romantics [his] starting point in these poems is a personal encounter between himself and some animal or flower, but, unlike the romantics, he never confuses the feelings they arouse in him with what he sees and hears and knows about them."

Synopsis:

This is a faithful reproduction of Lawrence's first great experiment in free verse. It includes lines previously censored for being "indecent", as well as following Lawrence's original sequence. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) made a contribution to poetry that, in the words of Louis Bogan, "Can now be recognized as one of the most important, in any language, of our time." "Birds, Beasts, and Flowers!" was his first great experiment into the form of free verse. This edition re-sets the text in the format of the first edition, whilst also restoring some lines that were previously censored for being "indecent." Many of the individual poems featured in this volume are popular in anthologies, but they are best read in the context of the whole book as Lawrence grouped the poems in a purposeful sequence - which this edition faithfully reproduces.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0876858663
• ISBN 13: 9780876858660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 161