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Selected Poems

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Description for Selected Poems paperback. A selection of poems by DH Lawrence selected by James Fenton. Editor(s): Fenton, James. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.

From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and inspired later poets.

This volume includes extensive selections from these and other editions, and contains some his most famous poems, such as 'Piano', a nostalgic reflection on lost youth and love for his mother; 'Snake', exploring human fear of the natural world; the short, cutting comment on sexual politics of 'Can't Be Borne'; and the quiet philosophical resignation of 'Basta!'. Using the revised poems, but in the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140424584
SKU
9780140424584
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About D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire in 1885. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor's wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and ... Read more

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