Description
Spanning three pivotal periods of his life, this comprehensive selection gathers D. H. Lawrence’s poetry in the revised texts’ original order, offering a fresh, coherent view of his evolving craft and creative vision. Beginning with the early, often rhyming poems of *Love Poems and Others* (1913), the collection moves toward the ground-breaking freedom of his later work, including the daring experiments in free verse found in *Birds, Beasts and Flowers*. Across these shifting forms, Lawrence’s technical mastery and lyrical intensity illuminate recurring themes of desire, nature’s vitality, and the restless search for authenticity in human feeling. With its careful progression from traditional music to liberated expression, the book showcases why Lawrence remains a singular voice in modern poetry—intimate, sensuous, and unafraid to reinvent how a poem can sound.
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paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 2009
200 pages
ISBN: 9780140424584
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First Published
2009
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Selected Poems by D. H. Lawrence.