Remembering D. H. Lawrence:
September 11, 1885–March 2, 1930

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David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England and died from tuberculosis on March 2, 1930 in Vence, France, at the age of 44. 

The fourth son of a nearly-illiterate coal miner, Lawrence rose by dint of genius and hard work to become an internationally famous, often censored, and sometimes persecuted novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.

Underlying Lawrence’s writings was a visionary “vitalist” philosophy which affirmed the primary reality of life and criticized Christianity, science, technology, democracy, and feminism for suppressing, deforming, and profaning the life force.

Lawrence was also a man of the Right. A frank elitist, he rejected egalitarianism, liberalism, and democracy in favor of a hierarchical, organic society ruled by a dictator — a society that gave priority to aesthetic, cultural, and eugenic values. Lawrence also had strongly ecological and neopagan sensibilities.

Lawrence was astonishingly productive in his 44 years. His best-known novels are Women in Love [2], Sons and Lovers [3], Lady Chatterley’s Lover [4], and The Rainbow [5]. He also wrote numerous poems [6], short stories [7], essays [8], criticism [9], travelogues about Italy [10] and Mexico [11], and letters [12].

To learn more about Lawrence, consult the following writings on Counter-Currents:

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