The bad side of books : selected essays of D.H. Lawrence
/ D.H. Lawrence ; edited and with an introduction by Geoff Dyer
- New York : New York Book Review , 2019
- 490 pages ; 21 cm.
- New York Review Books classics .
Includes bibliographical references.
Christs in the Tirol -- Review of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann -- From study of Thomas Hardy -- Whistling of birds -- Poetry of the present -- Memoir of Maurice Magnus (1921-2) -- Indians and an Englishman -- Taos -- The future of the novel (1922-3) -- Paris letter -- A letter from Germany -- Pan in America -- The bad side of books : introduction to a bibliography of the writings of DH Lawrence -- On coming home -- Art and morality -- Morality and the novel -- The novel -- Why the novel matters -- The novel and the feelings -- Reflections on the death of a porcupine -- Man is a hunter -- Return to Bestwood -- Review of In our time by Ernest Hemingway -- Flowery Tuscany -- Germans and Latins -- Introduction to Mastro-don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga -- Why I don't like living in London -- Hymns in a man's life -- Give her a pattern -- New Mexico -- Myself revealed -- Introduction to These paintings (1928-9) -- Pornography and obscenity -- The risne lord -- Nottingham and the mining countryside -- Introduction to The grand inquisitor by F.M. Dostoievsky -- Elegy by Rebecca West.
You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf.