D H Lawrence Selected Poems Author:D. H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence as a poet has been maligned, beatified, and generally dissected, but he has emerged today as the creator of some of our century's major poetry. For this unusual collection Kenneth Rexroth has culled the most representative of Lawrence's poems from a wide selection of books, and has also provided an illuminating and challen... more »ging preface. Here is Lawrence in his immense capacity for sensual enjoyment. Here are the early "conventional" poems, the erotic epigrams, and the mystic poems that reflect his personal experiences and his development.
The Viking Compass edition was first issued in 1959.« less