D.H. Lawrence Raged in Prose & Verse

When people think of D.H. Lawrence, they generally think of his substantial body of fiction, those long, intense novels such as “Sons and Lovers,” “The Rainbow,” “Women in Love” and lots of novellas and stories. Certainly, it was these that led the influential Cambridge critic F.R. Leavis to make Lawrence a linchpin of his book, “The Great Tradition,” along with Jane Austen, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and Henry James. But there was another genre where Lawrence shone at least as brightly and where, once again, he was squarely within a central tradition in English literature: poetry. Now, for the first time, there is a full, critical edition of Lawrence’s verse, expertly annotated and scrupulously edited, giving us all his poetical works — including some previously unknown — just as he wrote them.