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D.H. LAWRENCE D.H. LAWRENCE THE UTOPIAN VISION EUGENE GOODHEART WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 13 Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK Acknowledgements are made to The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Phoenix, The Rainbow, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious by D. H. Lawrence, Viking Press, Messrs. William Heinemann, Ltd., Laurence Pollinger, Ltd., and the estate of the late Mrs. Frieda Lawrence, and to Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. Originally published in 1963 by the University of Chicago Press Published 2006 by Transaction Publishers Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business New material this edition copyright © 2006 by Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2005043680 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goodheart, Eugene. [Utopian vision of D.H. Lawrence] D.H. Lawrence: the Utopian vision / Eugene Goodheart. p. cm. Originally published: The Utopian vision of D.H. Lawrence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. With a new introd. by the author. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-4128-0500-7 (acid-free paper) 1. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930—Political and social views. 2. Utopias in literature. I. Title. PR6023.A93Z6297 2005 823'.912—dc22 2005043680 ISBN 13: 978-1-4128-0500-1 (pbk) To My Mother and Father and Pat Contents Introduction to the Transaction Edition ix Introduction \ 1 The Tablet-breaker 4 2 Art and Prophecy: The Mythical Dimension 38 3 The Eternity of the Phenomenon 63 4 The Greater Life of the Body 87 5 The Reciprocity of Poiver 126 6 A Representative Destiny 160 Bibliography 17 5 Index 184 In troduction to th e Transaction Edition D. H. Lawrence: The Utopian Vision was one of a number of books published in the early sixties in partial reaction to F. R. Leavis's championing of Lawrence as the exemplary writer of the modem period. The majority of books expressed ad- miration for Lawrence, but not necessarily on Leavis's idolatrous terms. I am sure that Leavisites, if they still exist, would resent the attribution of idolatry to Leavis, for whom criticism as an ideal was an exercise in moral, aesthetic, and intellectual rigor. In responding to Lawrence, Leavis was given to an extravagance of admiration that compromised his criticism. Leavis's Lawrence is not only a great novelist, he is also the peerless embodiment of the imagination of moral vitality. I hesitate between speaking of a reaction to and a reaction against, because despite his excesses most critics of Lawrence are indebted to Leavis for having se- cured Lawrence's reputation as a modern master against his denigrators. My own differences with Leavis mainly concern: (1) an understanding of the context or tradition in which best to appreciate Lawrence's achievement and (2) the moral or ethi- cal character of his work. Leavis placed Lawrence in an ex- clusively English context (Austen, George Eliot, and Conrad are among his forbears) in what Leavis called "the great tra- ix
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