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D.H. LAWRENCE'S LITERARY INHERITORS Also by Keith Cushman D.H. LAWRENCE AT WORK THE LETTERS OF D.H. LAWRENCE & AMY LOWELL, 1914--1925 (coeditor) MEMOIR OF MAURICE MAGNUS (editor) THE CHALLENGE OF D.H. LAWRENCE (coeditor) Also by Dennis Jackson D.H. LAWRENCE'S "LADY": A NEW LOOK AT "LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER" (coeditor) CRITICAL ESSAYS ON D.H. LAWRENCE (coeditor) D.H. Lawrence's Literary Inheritors Edited by Keith Cushman and Dennis Jackson ~ MACMILLAN © Keith Cushman and Dennis Jackson 1991 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1991 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WCIE 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1991 Published by MACMILLAN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world Typeset by LBJ Enterprises Ltd TadIey, Hampshire British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data D.H. Lawrence's literary inheritors 1. English literature, 1900-. Influence of Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. I. Cushman, Keith II. Jackson, Dennis. 820.900912 ISBN 978-1-349-21706-9 ISBN 978-1-349-21704-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-21704-5 1098765432 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 Contents Acknowledgments vii Notes on the Contributors viii 1 Lawrence and His Inheritors: An Introduction Keith Cushman and Dennis Jackson 1 2 The Fox and the Phoenix: Tennessee Williams's Strong Misreading of Lawrence Lydia Blanchard 15 3 The Lawrentian Power and Logic of Equus Stanley Renner 31 4 Sherwood Anderson's Dialogue with Lawrence's Dark Gods Barnett Guttenberg 46 5 Lawrence and Durrell: "ON THE SAME TRAM" Ian S. MacNiven 61 6 A Cumbrian Rainbow: Melvyn Bragg's Tallentire Trilogy Del Ivan Janik 73 7 Lawrence's American Bad Boy Progeny: Henry Miller and Norman Mailer Kingsley Widmer 89 8 Floods of Female Desire in Lawrence and Eudora Welty Carol Siegel 109 v vi Contents 9 'A Great Kick at Misery': Lawrence's and Drabble's Rebellion Against the Fatalism of Bennett Nora Foster Stovel 131 10 Blind, Intertextual Love: 'The Blind Man' and Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral' Keith Cushman 155 11 Joyce Carol Oates: Testing the Lawrentian Hypothesis Diane S. Bonds 167 12 The Melancholy Serpent: Body and Landscape in Lawrence and William Carlos Williams Bruce Clarke 188 13 Lawrence and Auden: The Pilgrim and the Citizen George W. Bahlke 211 14 'A Whole Climate of Opinion': Lawrence at Black Mountain Leo Hamalian 228 15 Behind the Bestiaries: The Poetry of Lawrence and Ted Hughes Rand Brandes 248 Index 268 Acknowledgments The collaborative effort that produced this book reminds us of the sustaining pleasure that our participation in the international circle of Lawrence scholars has provided over the years. By all rights, Lawrentians should be contentious, but instead to a remarkable degree they share a sense of common enterprise. We owe most to Jim Cowan and Mike Squires, but we also wish to acknowledge other members of the Lawrence community with whom we have shared much intellectual camaraderie and many good times: Michael Boldt, Nancy Boldt, Jim Boulton, Chong-wha Chung, L.D. Clark, Bill Daleski, G.K. Das, Simonetta de Filippis, Paul Delany, Paul Eggert, David Ellis, Langdon Elsbree, Larry Gamache, Jacqueline Gouirand, Eleanor Green, Janice Harris, Karl Henzy, Takeo Iida, Jiang Ming Ming, Jung-mai Kim, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, Holly Laird, Liu Xianzhi, Hebe Mace, Fred McDowell, Howard Mills, Yasuichiro Ohashi, Jean-Paul Pichar die, Gerald Pollinger, Peter Preston, Chuck Rossman, Ginette Roy, Judith Ruderman, Carol Sklenicka, Mark Spilka, Jack Stew art, Betsy Wallace, Peter Whelan, John Worthen, and George Zytaruk. Thanks to them all. It would be possible to build an excellent, very large library of studies of twentieth-century literature simply by collecting books that acknowledge the support and assistance of Walt Litz. This is another one of those books. He helped immensely. We also wish to thank Laurence Pollinger Ltd. and the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli for permission to quote from D.H. Lawrence's works. Thanks, too, to Bob Langenfeld, Deb Bell, and Sara Lamb. * * * * * * * Do tell as many people as you can that I'm a great writer and that my influence is pure and sweet . ... (Lawrence to Ernest Collings, 24 December 1912) vii Notes on the Contributors George W. Bahlke is the author of The Later Auden: From "New Year Letter" to "About the House" (1970). He is editing Critical Essays on W.H. Auden for G.K. Hall and is working on a book about E.M. Forster and Lawrence. He is Professor of English at Hamilton College. Lydia Blanchard has published numerous essays on Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and feminist literary criticism in books and journals. She is on the Editorial Board of The D.H. Lawrence Review and is an officer in the Lawrence Society of North America. She serves as Director of the Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies at Southwest Texas State University, where she also teaches in the English Department. Diane S. Bonds is the author of Language and the Self in D.H. Lawrence (1987) and of essays on various modern writers. She is on the Editorial Board of The D.H. Lawrence Review and is writing a book on contemporary American poetry. She is Assistant to the Dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Rand Brandes is the author of articles on Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and other contemporary poets. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Lenoir-Rhyne College. Bruce Clarke has completed book manuscripts on Lawrence and the sublime and on the trope of metamorphosis in literature, and has published articles and reviews on Lawrence, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Pound, and other figures. His essay on Lawrence and Williams in the present collection is part of his Modernist Individualism, a book in progress on Anglo-American literary connections during the early twen tieth century. He teaches English at Texas Tech. Keith Cushman is the author of D.H. Lawrence at Work (1978) and has written widely on modern literature. He edited Lawrence's viii Notes on the Contributors ix Memoir of Maurice Magnus (1987) and coedited The Letters of D.H. Lawrence & Amy Lowell, 1914-1925 (1985) and The Challenge of D.H. Lawrence (1990). An Editorial Board member of The D.H. Lawrence Review and a past president of the Lawrence Society of North America, he is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Barnett Guttenberg is the author of Web of Being: The Novels of Robert Penn Warren (1980) and of essays on Lawrence and various other modern writers. An Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami, he is working on a book on Faulkner. Leo Hamalian wrote D.H. Lawrence in Italy (1982) and edited D.H. Lawrence: A Collection of Criticism (1973). He also wrote William Saroyan: The Man and the Writer Remembered (1987), Ladies on the Loose (1981), Burn After Reading (1978), and other books, and has edited many volumes. He edits Ararat, a quarterly of arts and letters, and serves on the editorial boards of Levant, The Literary Review, and Columbia. He teaches contemporary literature at The City College of New York. Dennis Jackson is the editor of The D.H. Lawrence Review and a past president of the Lawrence Society of North America. He coedited Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence (1988) and D.H. Law rence's "Lady": A New Look at "Lady Chatterley'S Lover" (1985) and has written articles on Lawrence and other topics for sundry books and magazines. He has edited several scholarly journals, including Irish Renaissance Annual. He teaches journalism and English at the University of Delaware. Del Ivan Janik is the author of The Curve of Return: D.H. Lawrence's Travel Books (1981) and of essays and reviews on Lawrence, Flann O'Brien, Gary Snyder, and other modern writers. He is Professor and Chairman of English at the State University of New York College at Cortland. Ian S. MacNiven is the editor of The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935-80 (1988) and coeditor of Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington Lawrence Durrell Correspondence (1981). He also coedited two "Lawrence Durrell" special issues of Twentieth Century Literature in 1987, and is completing the authorized biography of Durrell.

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