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An Anamolous Love An Anomalous Love "Lawrence's need to explore man's nature below its surface led him into far franker discussions of sex, religion, and psychology
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An Anomalous Love
“Lawrence’s need to explore man’s nature below its surface
led him into far franker discussions of sex, religion, and psychology
then we find in any English novelist before him” (Niven 97).
No one could have anticipated that David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence, this fourth child and third son of a miner, would become one of the most frequently studied English novelists of the twentieth century (Niven 87). In addition to his success as a novelist, he also became a “proficient poet and playwright as well as one of the most prolific literary correspondents of modern times, a combative essayist, and a uniquely atmospheric travel writer” (Niven 87). In one of Lawrence’s most widely read novels, Sons and Lovers (1913), Lawrence reevaluates his childhood, his relationship with his mother, and her psychosomatic effect on his sexuality and experiences with women. Among the numerous influences affecting D.H. Lawrence’s work, the significance of his relationship with his mother, his formative years, as well as the complexities of his era have had the heaviest impact.
David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, central England (Niven 87). Lawrence was the fourth child (of a family of five) of a struggling coal miner, who was also a very heavy drinker. His mother was a former schoolteacher, and her education greatly outweighed her husband’s minimal schooling (online-literature.com 1). Lawrence’s childhood was based on poverty and extreme hostility between his parents (online-literature.com 1). “From boyhood he shared a close relationship with his mother and grew to hate the debilitating mine work he considered responsible for his father’s debased condition” (The Gale Group 1). Also when Lawrence was a young boy, his imagination was captured by the performances of Teddy Rayner’s traveling players who presented glory melodramas in their tented...
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