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D.H Lawrence
By | January 24, 2008
D.H. Lawrence is one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. He has written many highly acclaimed books and poems including the very controversial ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’s’ which has been made into movies and ‘Sons and Lovers’ as well as many poems that have stood the test of time including ‘Snake’ and ‘How Beastly the Bourgeoisie is’. After his death he was also acknowledged as a talented expressionist painter.
He was born David Herbert Lawrence on the 11th of September, 1885 in Nottinghamshire to a coal miner father and a mother who was a retired school teacher. His father was plagued by problems of drinking and his mother -who was far more educated than his father- and his father constantly fought. The family was extremely poor and he was educated at the Nottingham High School where he had won a scholarship. He matriculated from the Nottingham University and then began a career as a teacher for a brief while.
His first poems were published in the English Review when Lawrence was 24 years old following which his first novel ‘The White Peacock’ was published two years later which announced the beginning of his career as a writer and poet. Soon after he fell in love with Frieda von Richthofen who was married to Ernest Weekly and subsequently eloped with her. They were married a year later.
During the First World War he and his wife were accused of being German spies and were not allowed to emigrate. When they were finally allowed to leave in 1919 they began their years of wandering. He died on the 2nd of March, 1930 at the age of 45 in France. His writings were very often ahead of their time and were accused of being obscene on a few occasions.
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