英国文学选读—D H Lawrence.ppt

D. H. Lawrence D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Snake and How Beastly the Bourgeoisie is are probably his most anthologized poems . Early life The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner, and Lydia , a former schoolmistress, Lawrence spent his formative years in the coal mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His birthplace is now a museum. His working class background and the tensions between his parents provided the raw material for a number of his early works. Lawrence would return to this area, which he was to call the country of my heart, as a setting for much of his fiction. The young Lawrence attended Beauvale Board School from 1891 until 1898, becoming the first local pupil to win a County Council scholarship to Nottingham High School in nearby Nottingham. He left in 1901, working for three months as a junior clerk at Haywood‘s surgical appliances factory before a severe pneumonia （肺炎）ended this career. In the years 1902 to 1906 Lawrence served as a pupil teacher at the British School, Eastwood. He went on to become a full-time student and received a teaching certificate from University College Nottingham in 1908. During these early years he was working on his first poems, some short stories, and a draft of a novel, The White Peacock. At the end of 1907 he won a short story competition in the Nottingham Guardian, the first time that he had gained any wider recognition for his literary talents. Wider horizons In the autumn of 1908 the newly qualified Lawrence left his childhood home for London. While teaching in School, he continued writing. Shortly after the final proofs of his first published novel The White Peacock appeared in 1910, Lawrences mother died. She had been ill with cancer. The young man was distressed and he was to describe the next few months as his sick year. It is clear that Lawrence had an