John Worthen

A portrait of one of the 20th century's, most radical and misunderstood writers. This book follows Lawrence, from his awkward youth in Nottinghamshire, through his turbulent relationship with Frieda, and the years of exile abroad to his premature death at the age of 44. It is a reappraisal of a man, who believed himself to be an outsider.

The Life of an Outsider

D. H. Lawrence

Drawing especially on the many scholarly discoveries of recent years, this biography examines the life – and death ‒ of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Based on sceptical historical investigation and featuring an in-depth look at Shelley’s personal, financial and familial situation, it builds a compelling narrative about a controversial writer and thinker whose personal and philosophical convictions caused much turmoil during his short yet extraordinarily influential life. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley reveals sides of the author not often studied. It looks at Shelley as an intensely loving, thoughtful and responsible man and father, who (except in one case) took exemplary care of the women he loved and who fell in love with him. It shows how significant his status as a gentleman was; it examines his poetry, letters, notebooks and discursive prose so that readers can comprehend the most important concerns of his life; it explores the financial and medical grounds for his years of exile; it is also the first biography to take account of his recently discovered early long poem the Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things. This biography offers readers a unique look at a famous poet, scholar, gentleman, democrat, atheist and tragic icon of English Romanticism.

A Critical Biography

The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Over a dramatic six-month period in 1802, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, and the two Hutchinson sisters, Sara and Mary, formed a close-knit group whose members saw or wrote one another constantly. In this fascinating book, Worthen recreates the group's intertwined lives and the effect they had on one another. 20 illustrations.

Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802

The Gang

D.H.Lawrence and the Idea of the Novel

Andrew Harrison

The nine essays in this casebook demonstrate the full range of contemporary critical responses to D.H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers', from studies of narrative technique to psychoanalytic and gender-based analysis.

A Casebook

D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

Paul Poplawski

Provides a biography, detailed overview of Lawrence's works, and full bibliographical information for hundreds of critical works.

A Reference Companion

D.H. Lawrence

David Ellis

Mark Kinkead-Weekes

This final 1998 volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. He is revealed as a man both more complex and more humorous than is usually allowed, and exemplary in his resolute grappling with the central problems of his age.

John Worthen

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