I have not done much in this relatively new formant which I like to think of as the equivalent of the short poems Lawrence wrote when he was too ill and tired to do anything else ('Pansies' he called them because that English word is derived from Pensées). Not that standard he set would be easy to reach! Some of these blogs have been posted on the website of Wordsworth Classics and others were written with members of the D. H. Lawrence Society in mind. But mainly they are for anyone who has happened to wander in my direction. They are not all about literature. One that is relatively recent, for example, deals with the problem of money in sport and is called
'Local heroes' (see under 'Musings') . In 'Texts for our Times' there is a blog with the self-explanatory title
'Boris, Byron and the 2019 general election' and another that considers the relevance of Defoe's
Journal of the Plague Year to our condition today (in 2020).
DHL
October 28th, 2018
Legs The sixth of Jaques’ famous seven ages of man in As You Like It features a `lean and slippered pantaloon, … / His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank’, which is not exactly a pleasant picture but
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October 18th, 2018
Piano H. Lawrence wrote a great deal of poetry. The Wordsworth edition of the Complete Poems runs to well over 600 pages, as does the relevant volume of the Cambridge edition. This bulk is most conveniently divided into three. There are first of all
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