The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence [Hardcover]

An authoritative selection of letters by one of the great English letter-writers, first published in 1997, is also available in paperback.Lawrence is one of the best English letter-writers: this is a selection of over 330 from the Cambridge Edition. Ranging across his writing career, they were addressed to the intelligentsia SH but also to a local politician in his home town, a Post Office clerk and an Italian servant-girl. Lawrence's epistolary skills whether describing the natural world, presenting a comic scene, denouncing some folly, hypocrisy or injustice, conveying sympathy on the death of a friend, expressing love for his wife-to-be, are all here, and much more besides.Lawrence is one of the best English letter-writers: this is a selection of over 330 from the Cambridge Edition. Ranging across his writing career, they were addressed to the intelligentsia SH but also to a local politician in his home town, a Post Office clerk and an Italian servant-girl. Lawrence's epistolary skills whether describing the natural world, presenting a comic scene, denouncing some folly, hypocrisy or injustice, conveying sympathy on the death of a friend, expressing love for his wife-to-be, are all here, and much more besides.D.H. Lawrence's renowned creativity is conspicuous in his letters. He wrote to aristocrats, fellow authors, painters, publishers, and others from the intelligentsia--but with equal concern to his sisters, a childhood friend suffering from tuberculosis, a post office clerk or an Italian servant-girl. Lawrence reveled in the act of communication, using a direct, unvarnished but invariably vivid style appropriate to each correspondent. In this book, over 330 of Lawrence's letters, carefully chosen from the authoritative seven-volume Cambridge Edition exemplify Lawrence's artistry and humanness. In his introductory essay James T. Boulton provides a rare critical assessment of Lawrence's epistolary achievement. There are annotations to the letters, a biographicall#.