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).

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Bergheil!

Bergheil! The chairman of the Lawrence Society has very kindly sent me a copy of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain, as a gift.  A defect in my sensibility means that, when I was an undergraduate, I developed techniques for skipping any landscape ... read more »

Lawrence and Richard Aldington

Lawrence and Richard Aldington There is something faintly comical about Lawrence’s response to Aldington’s novel, Death of a Hero.  The two men had known each other since shortly before the First World War and met up again at the end of 1928 ... read more »

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