About the Book: The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Lawrences reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in
poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings
together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the
unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the
contents of the two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he died
in 1930. It therefore allows the reader to trace the development of Lawrence as
a poet and appreciate the remarkable originality and distinctiveness of his
achievement. Not all the poems reprinted here are masterpieces but