No selection of Lawrence’s criticism is currently in print, so this book supplies an obvious need. Lawrence is the best English critic there has ever been or is ever likely to be! Not that he is always right or has said the last word on anything (such is not the nature of great criticism) but if anyone ever fulfilled the Arnold idea of “seeing the object as in itself it really is” Lawrence did, and his penetration and depth of judgement are matchless. Lawrence is particularly necessary at the present time as a living rebuke to academic criticism that loses touch both with the art it discusses and what Wordsworth called the “language of men”. Lawrence single-mindedly and also, often, very funnily, concentrates on what matters.
        This selection where possible gives entire essays not fragments. It is bigger than earlier selections and not restricted to criticism of literature. It includes, complete, Pornography and Obscenity, the Introduction to his Paintings and A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. For contents page and to order click on Shop.