What do ya'll think of DH Lawrence?

What do ya'll think of DH Lawrence?

Is he the gay Lawrence or the white battle arab Lawrence?

4/10 would not fuck

I just bought his poems, I like them, never read his novels. But his premises seem interesting

he dresses like a nu-male

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strange guy
revolutionary one moment, reactionary the next
for all his attempts to be a free and original thinker, he could be disturbingly rigid once his mind was made up.

There was some beautiful prose in The Rainbow, Lady Chatterly's Lover and Sons and Lovers.
I tried getting into Women in Love but the shifts between different characters' perspectives within the same chapter was annoying.

I enjoyed his essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne and Moby Dick.

Rocking Horse Winner is a fantastic short story
and that's all I've read of his.

Fpbp, this would be the battle arab

The Plumed Serpent is quality.

What are his best books?

I like Lady Chatterley's Lover and as another user suggested, The Rocking Horse Winner. The Escaped Cock/The Man Who Died is great (it's about Jesus NOT dying on the cross and procreating with various women)

/pol/ would love The Plumed Serpent but they don't read 400 page novels with gay undertones

He seems to write about sex quite a lot. Also for some reason I'm kind put off by a man writing a female main character and vice versa , I'll probably just pickup his short stories

T. E. Lawrence was the battle arab

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Start with Sons and Lovers, then read Lady Chatterley's Lover, and then The Rainbow. I've never understood why he's not discussed more on this board; his prose is so beautiful.

>ya'll

why the fuck do you dumbass americans get this wrong? you invented it ffs

I've only read Pornography & Obscenity. Also that book by D.H. Lawrence with the same name. /dadjoke

But seriously, I've only read it because D&G really liked Lawrence's concept of the dirty little secret, which they used against psychoanalysis. It still holds up today perfectly as a cultural critique even though it was published in 1929. Maybe it's even more relevant than ever.

I like his prose but why does he have to write such long books, someone tell this guy to write something easier for me to get into.

The serpent is about male friendship and Mexican fascists. I didnt see the gay in it.

Why do people always accuse this guy of being gay? Every sex scene he writes in lady chatterly's lover is between a man and a woman.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_Kb5Qkj-4

Daily reminder that the Oedipus complex doesn't exist

Just two bros wrestling, not gay at all

it's weeb wrestling tho

Fucking hate him. Had to read The Rainbow when I was studying abroad and hated every fucking second of it and then got in trouble for calling him a quack in lecture.

Good times

>hating one of the most soothing prose stylists in English
how?

God, I think I tried to read that many years ago, I couldn't make it past the first couple of pages. Endless, endless, repetitive boring descriptions of characters and their motivations that somehow still managed to let them appear as lifeless as a 500 year old dried out Indian mummy. GRR Martin is no prose marvel, but he can make a character seem more fleshed out in three sentences.

Is this the power of sffg?

>reads book about english people being like the english countryside
>sees egypt
wat? is this like those hymns where they figure jerusalem will be somewhere near cornwall?

He's a freak but I liked Sons & Lovers. My Brit Lit professor actually wrote the book on Lawrence

What are you talking about? The mummy was just a metaphor, I could have said "as lifeless as a rock" instead.

The man was more interesting than his books

No, the prose was good. It was beautiful writing. But beautiful writing can only make up for a nearly entire lack of story up to a point.

Gatsby is one of the ones where it DOES make up for it.

>being this shit with metaphors
>wondering why people jerk off to the marsh scene instead
i can't really help your taste, man, but you should probably think about doing something about that.
>gatsby
hm, better than the guy above who probably would like a cross between hemmingway and gerald gardner, but that's still awful tripe to defend on prose. literally nowhere outside america does that make grade.

I’m not saying Gatsby is amazing. There are definitely some valid criticism s about it and it’s not to everyone’s taste. I was simply using it as an example of a story where the language makes up for what otherwise is a pretty non-compelling story. Lawrence’s writing just isn’t enough to make up for how much I just can’t give a damn about the stories he’s telling.

I think the exact phrase I used once was, “I highly get the sense this wasn’t written for me.”

>i don't like lesbians
There's more meat in The Rainbow compared to Gatsby. It's just puzzling to use it as a comparison because it doesn't live up to the criticism as well as Lawrence.

Never said I don’t like lesbians... but okay?

And yet, more people have read Gatsby. It’s considered THE great American novel. More meat isn’t always a good thing. Fitzgerald packs a more fulfilling story into a much smaller book specifically because he doesn’t spend so much time on superfluous things.

What in The Rainbow is superfluous?

The ending of Sons and Lovers seriously disturbed me

He's a passionate writer and quite interesting but not a very great craftsman I think