The selected letters of D.H. Lawrence / compiled and edited by James T. Boulton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.

Contributor:

Boulton, James T.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Correspondence.

Lawrence, D. H.

Authors, English--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Autobiographies.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xlii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Summary:

Lawrence's renowned creativity is conspicuous in his letters. Here in over 330 of them - many first published in the acclaimed seven-volume Cambridge Edition - are exemplified the remarkable variety and inventiveness he could command. He corresponded with the elite - aristocrats, fellow authors, painters, publishers and others from the intelligentsia; but not with these only. With equal concern he wrote to his sisters, a childhood friend suffering from tuberculosis, a Post Office clerk or an Italian servant-girl. Lawrence revelled in the act of communication, using a direct, unvarnished but invariably vivid style appropriate to each correspondent. His letters are notable for expressive and imaginative energy, wit and comedy, the tender and the tempestuous, combined with an extraordinary sensitivity to the natural world as well as to the human condition - and much besides. Few English letter-writers offer a comparable range of interest. In his introductory essay James Boulton provides a rare critical assessment of Lawrence's epistolary achievement. In addition to the annotated texts of the letters, also included are a biographical list of Lawrence's correspondents; brief chronological and descriptive introductions to each section; and a full general index.

Notes:

"With one exception the letters in this volume are based on the texts in the Cambridge University Press edition of The letters of D.H. Lawrence (1979-93)"--Pref.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0521401151

OCLC:

34912693