DHLawrence (英国作家劳伦斯)课件.ppt

David Herbert Lawrence; English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. ; Lawrence’s opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life. At the time of his death, he was considered in Britain as a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature.; Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, central England. He was the fourth child of a struggling coal miner who was a heavy drinker. His mother was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to his father.;D.H. Lawrence Family; Lawrence’s childhood was dominated by poverty and friction between his parents. After studies at Nottingham University, Lawrence briefly pursued a teaching career.; In 1909, a number of Lawrence’ poems were published. The appearance of his first novel, The White Peacock (1911), launched Lawrence into a writing career.; In 1912 he met Frieda von Richthofen, the professor Ernest Weekly’s wife and fell in love with her. Frieda left her husband and three children, and they eloped to Bavaria. ; Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers appeared in 1913 and was based on his childhood. Lawrence’s novel, The Rainbow (1915), was about two sisters growing up in the north of England.; During the First World War Lawrence and his wife became targets of constant harassment from the English authorities. They were accused of spying for the Germans. In 1919, they began their years of wandering outside Britain.; Lawrence’s best known work is Lady Chatterly’s Lover, first published privately in Florence in 1928. It tells of the love affair between a wealthy, married woman, and a man who